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Wear It Pink
Breast cancer is the second biggest cancer killer of women after lung cancer in the UK. It effects 1 in 8 women, but a simple mammogram could reduce its damaging impact by up to 30%. 'Wear It Pink' raises approx £2M per annum to help promote the issue, find a cure and fund valuable equipment to help reduce breast cancer. This is achieved by getting people to wear something pink for the day and[...]
Global Switch
Global Switch are one of the largest data storage companies in the world with offices spanning the globe. JAS were appointed to advise, research, prototype and develop the brand with the Marketing team in the UK office, to agree the specification for the global roll out. The brief included high level logos, internal reception signs and a way finding system throughout each facility. The largest [...]
Cabot Circus Rebrand
When the largest shopping centre in Bristol needed rebranding, John Anthony Signs were called in to help. We worked closely with the architect Rawls and the main contractor Lancer Scott, to ensure we could be as proactive as possible throughout the process Products that were manufactured included, illuminated free standing and wall mounted directories and circular flex faces, halo lit building l[...]
Constructionline accreditation
One of the obvious challenges for any buyer is who they should select as the right choice of company that they know is a reputable and professional organisation in whom they can trust. To assist this process, we are pleased to announce that John Anthony Signs has successfully joined Constructionline's register of pre-qualified suppliers. This achievement runs alongside the other accreditation[...]
Receiving the prize…
Following the recent launch of our new identity, we are pleased to announce the winner of our iPad competition. There were many correct entries and the lucky winner was Andrew Linares of Dalziel + Pow Andrew received the good news whilst on holiday chilling out on a sunbed in the south of France! Needless to say he was thrilled at the news and has had a smile on his face ever since. Thank yo[...]
Tesco
After "hitting a brick wall" with their incumbent supplier to find a solution to branding the Gillingham store's distinctive water tower, Tesco turned to John Anthony Signs to come up with a solution. Due to the unusual material used to construct the tower, vinyl couldn't be used, so we simply used our traditional skills of sign writing to achieve an excellent result. Not only did we find a [...]
And the winner is…
Thanks to everyone who took part in our Whose sign? competition to name the brands behind the signs and win an iPad 2. Quite a few people got them all spot on – so we drew the winner’s name out of the proverbial hat. And the winner was… Andrew Linares at Dalziel & Pow. Well done Andrew. Here are the correct answers. 1 BankMuscat Fifty degree heat, regular sandsto[...]
New Branding – JAS gets a ‘new look’
We have launched our new identity. We believe the new brand is fresh, clean and progressive and gives us the chance to “shout out” to our clients that we are still investing and going from strength to strength as we come out of the recession. This change in identity also represents many of the changes that we are making to improve our business over the coming year as we strive to achieve I[...]
Cabot Circus
John Anthony Signs have been awarded the prestigious contract to manufacture, manage and install the rebranding of Bristol’s largest shopping centre, Cabot Circus. After a hard fought tender, we were awarded the contract based on our ability to deliver a quality product, hassle free and at a competitive price. Cabot Circus is owned by Land Securities and Hammerson and after the successful imp[...]
New Operations Director
Some say that you should never leave a company and then return, but in the case of James Hawkes the results could not have been better for his personal career and development. James worked for John Anthony Signs from 2003 to 2006 as a project manager and then left to further his career as an engineer in developing the Norwegian Military Mobile Medical Unit, and subsequently with Heywood Tyler in h[...]