Most of our work is done in Texas, including Austin, DFW, Houston and the surrounding areas. However, we have the ability to deliver and install anywhere within the continental U.S. and abroad through our vast network of fabrication and installation partnerships.

Yes. Every interior signage program we design meets the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design — raised tactile characters, Grade 2 braille, non-glare finishes, adequate contrast between character and background, and correct mounting height and location at the latch side of the door.

Compliance is a design input for us, not a final check. Permanent room identification, restrooms, elevators, exits, and areas of refuge each carry their own requirements, and the expensive mistakes happen when signage is specified late in a project, against a deadline, by someone reading the standard for the first time. We review code during design and document it in the drawings you approve, so the package that reaches fabrication is already correct — including on projects where a local jurisdiction or inspector applies the standard more strictly than the federal baseline.

ADA rarely arrives on its own. It is usually one requirement inside a larger wayfinding or identification scope, and we design it as part of that system rather than as a separate line item.

Yes. Design-only engagements end with a complete documentation package — sign type drawings, message schedule, location plans, and specifications — that can be bid and built by others, which is common on public projects and on programs with an existing fabrication relationship. We can also stay involved through shop-drawing review and installation inspection so the intent survives the handoff.

Yes. Exterior signage is governed by the municipal sign code, and often by landlord or district criteria on top of it — allowable area, height, illumination, and placement. We review those constraints during design, prepare the permit drawings, provide engineering where a jurisdiction requires it, and manage the submission. Permit review time varies by city and is usually the longest single item in an exterior schedule, so we start it early.

Stone, cast concrete, brick, fabricated aluminum, and steel, usually with dimensional or illuminated letters and often with landscape and lighting designed around them. The material should come from the architecture it introduces. At Waterline the monument is a 12,000-pound piece of limestone because the tower's ground floor is limestone; a glass office campus would call for something else entirely.

Yes. Garages carry ADA requirements at accessible stalls, elevators, and stairs; fire and life-safety signage at exits and standpipes; clearance signage at every entry; and municipal requirements that vary by city. We fold all of it into the same program as the wayfinding so it is designed once, documented once, and installed in one mobilization rather than as a punch-list item at the end.

Placemaking is the deliberate design of a space so that people recognize it, gather in it, and remember it — through art installations, large-scale graphics, sculptural identity elements, lighting, and the moments along a route where a building or district reveals what it is about. It overlaps with public art and with signage but is neither one on its own. The measure of success is whether people describe the place by name and meet each other there.

Developers and property owners establishing a new district or destination, cities and public agencies activating civic space, venues and campuses building identity into the arrival experience, and institutions marking a founding moment. At Moody Center the commemorative plaque of Matthew McConaughey's original napkin sketch is a small example: authentic Austin storytelling built into the building rather than hung on it.

By engineering them as building elements, not artwork. Sun, water, wind load, vandalism, and cleaning all get designed for — material selection, finishes rated for exterior exposure, structural attachment, drainage, and access for maintenance. Our in-house engineering team reviews the concept before it is fabricated, and we build samples of any finish that has to survive outside, because the difference between a ten-year installation and a two-year one is almost always in the details no one sees.

Yes, and it is a large share of our work. A retrofit starts with an audit of what is there, what is missing, and what contradicts itself, then a program that can be installed in phases without closing the building. Medical City Healthcare replaced signage across 16 hospitals and multiple clinics this way, each site coordinated through its own municipal permitting process while the facilities stayed open.

Yes. Public work brings bid documentation, prevailing-wage and insurance requirements, submittal and inspection processes, and sometimes domestic-sourcing conditions on materials. We design and document to those requirements from the start, and we match fabrication — domestic and international, from our own shop and from specialist partners — to what the project specifies rather than to what is convenient.

By treating accessibility as the baseline rather than a compliance layer. That means ADA and local accessibility standards designed in from the first drawing, multilingual messaging where the community calls for it, high-contrast and large-format identification, and a nomenclature simple enough that someone under stress, in a hurry, or new to the language can follow it. A civic building that is easy to navigate for everyone is easier to run.