Hand carved mahogany sign finished with palladium leaf. Installed at a residential property in Severna Park, Maryland. Designs & Signs manufactures a variety of carved signs for commercial and residential use. Please contact us for a quote! Hand Carved Mahogany Sign w/ Palladium Leaf! Wow. We also install gold leaf numbers on glass transom for […]

Architectural Gilding at The Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. Designs & Signs applied traditional gold leaf to carved monument letters. These photos show both phases of a typical surface gilding project. First size is applied to the surface that is to be gilded. When the size begins to set the gold leaf is […]

We make great community entrance signs. Call us, we can make a sandblasted sign for you with HDU or Cedar! We also offer routed signs, pin-mounted dimensional letters. We can also build walls and posts with brick or stone. Sandblasted sign for Ward Circle in Washington, DC. This sand blasted sign was designed, fabricated, and installed […]

Carved granite sign for Campus Green, a community in Arnold, Maryland. The granite is masked and then sandblasted. The recessed letters are finished with 23 karat gold leaf. The Sandblasting Process / A Few Details… Below you can see how the sandblast masking is used. It protects the polished granite face while the exposed letters […]

Community entrance sign for Loch Haven, a waterfront community in Edgewater, Maryland. The copy and inline are finished with gold leaf, applied by hand. Designs & Signs has manufactured and installed many gilded community entrance signs in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. This particular sign was sand carved with wood grain, then painted and finished […]

A detailed photo of the gilding process. Designs & Signs creates many gold leaf signs for a variety of uses. We make community entrance signs, restaurant and shop signs, and gilded lettering on glass windows. These machine incised letters were routed into a high density urethane sign face. We finished the letters with 23 karat […]