Sign shop drawings
The set everything gets built from
Production documentation is the part of a sign project nobody sees and everybody depends on: shop drawings, sign type details, location plans, and schedules, the set that turns a sold job into something the floor can actually build. The concept decides what the sign looks like. The shop drawings decide whether it gets built right.
We draw that set for sign companies. Thirty years on the fabrication side means the drawings come from someone who knows what the floor does with them, and the work is white-label. It's the trade side of our signage design work.
Shop drawings
Fabrication-level drawings with materials, dimensions, mounting, and construction detail a shop can build straight from.
Sign type details
A drawn detail for every sign type, so a 200-sign program is built from a handful of repeatable, documented types.
Location plans
Every sign placed on the plan and keyed to its type and message, so install crews know exactly what goes where.
Schedules
Message schedules and sign-type schedules that fix the wording, sizes, and counts in one place.
Permit coordination
Sheets set up so the permit package pulls from the same set, and nothing gets drawn twice or disagrees with itself.
We draw white-label shop drawings and production sets complete enough that your floor builds without an RFI.
How the trade works with us
Overflow drafting
Your backlog, our drafting. Sets drawn on your title block or ours, matched to your standards, back on your schedule.
Design-build support
You won the job without a designer on it. We take it from concept through the shop set, and you build it.
Program rollouts
One drawn sign type family carried across dozens of locations and jurisdictions without redrawing from scratch each time.
Who we work with
Sign companies
White-label design and documentation for shops busy building. We draw, you fabricate, and your client never knows we were involved.
Architects & designers
Signage and wayfinding documented to sit inside your set, on your schedule, drawn to the standard the rest of your drawings hold.
Facilities & property teams
Wayfinding and sign standards for campuses, portfolios, and multi-building sites that have outgrown the signs they started with.
Brands & retailers
Sign programs that hold the brand across every location and bend to each local code, without ever losing the look you built.
Shop drawings, answered
Didn't find your question? Ask us directly — straight answers, no runaround.
- What's the difference between shop drawings and permit drawings?
- Shop drawings are for the fabricator, and permit drawings are for the city. We draw both from one coordinated set, and the permit side is its own service.
- Is the work white-label?
- Yes. The drawings can carry your title block and go out under your name, and we never contact your client. We design signs for sign shops, and staying invisible is part of the service.
- What do you need from us to start?
- A survey or site photos, the brand files, and whatever you sold the client: a sell sheet, a concept, a napkin sketch. If dimensions are missing we tell you exactly what to measure before we start, not after the set stalls.
- What formats do you deliver?
- Print-ready PDF sets, plus the working files your shop uses: vector art for faces and graphics, and cut-ready files for routing where the job calls for it. Tell us what your workflow runs on and we match it.
- Can you match our drawing standards?
- Yes. Send a sample set and we draw to it: your title block, your layer conventions, your callout style. The goal is a set your floor reads the same way they read your own.
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