Branded Spaces

Signage, wallcoverings and painted work for commercial interiors

For commercial buildings, Branded Spaces handles the full cycle of signs and interior graphics, working as an environmental graphics and branding specialist from design through to installation. It is based in Chicago, Illinois, and the firm says it ships its products nationwide. Depending on the client, it either works from an existing design package or creates artwork with its in-house designers.

Environmental graphics and whole-space branding

The core work is branding a space as a whole. The firm serves offices, retail premises, healthcare settings, athletic complexes and colleges. It describes its work as interior signage, graphics, ADA signs, wayfinding and hand-painted signage, and its projects are planned as packages in which signs, graphics and wall treatments are designed together.

Wallcoverings and wall graphics

Custom wallcoverings are printed from a client's own design, which may come from an outside agency or from the firm's team. Each order comes with a do-it-yourself installation guide. Wall graphics include vinyl, window graphics for conference rooms and offices, and acrylic logos set into elevators and entrances.

ADA and wayfinding signs

The firm produces and installs ADA-compliant signs for clients who need them, including conference room signs and room identification signs with Braille. One room identification sign is described as a multi-layered display with a photograph to help people find the room. Wayfinding work covers directional signs for stairs, elevators and floors, and the firm says some projects combine several sign types in one scheme.

Hand-painted signs and murals

Hand-painted work includes sign painting, custom murals, hand-lettered signs and painted logos. The company says its painted signs have been named by a Chicago magazine, and it refers to that recognition in its own material. Projects it describes include a hand-painted mural for a bank's corporate office in Chicago.

Lit and neon signs

Neon signs are offered for offices and retail spaces as a way to add a distinctive element to a space's branding. Reception and lobby signs can be made with brass lettering lit by edge LEDs.