We help with branding your space and maximizing the impact of your building and interior with custom outdoor signage, environmental graphics, donor recognition displays and wayfinding sign systems by Ideation. Serving Detroit with custom signs since 2003.
Develop your brand identity with custom signs from Ideation.
Interior sign designed for Detroit consulting firm.
Exterior signs for Detroit communications and design agency
Custom Sign designed for a Metro Detroit artisan bakery.
Interior wayfinding signs for Detroit Athletic Club
Interior signs for Detroit location of Health One Credit Union.
Outdoor Sign design for metro Detroit based Bagger Dave’s restaurants.
Outdoor Signs for Detroit Institute of Arts
Environmental graphics and custom signs for Detroit restaurant.
Ideation produces commercial signs and environmental graphics that tell your story while working together with your interior design and architecture for maximum impact. Our team will make it fun and easy by helping you see the possibilities up front while handling every detail of implementation.
Ready to Explore the Possibilities?
We’d love to meet with you to size up your opportunity.
Commercial signs go in your space and your space communicates your brand. Our team of environmental graphic designers and production specialists is skilled at branding your space by developing the optimal signage for your environment – whether you need a single custom sign or a comprehensive system. We’ll make sure your space and signage move your people in the direction you want them to go.
Absolutely! We love collaborating with visionaries and creative individuals. No matter if you are starting from scratch or rebranding your product, we can help you with the perfect custom signage. Many times our customers come to us with an idea for a custom outdoor sign, business sign, or an interior graphic. We’ll help them validate it, expand on it, or recommend alternatives that might better help you achieve your objective.
Most projects have two cost components. The first is the cost for designing the right solution for your needs. The second is the cost for producing it. Of course, if you already have an environmental graphic designer, we can skip right over the first cost. When we meet to discuss your needs, we’ll determine what the design cost will be and establish a budget range you’re comfortable with for the production costs.
We start with a get-to-know-you meeting to understand both the challenge and the upside potential of getting it right.
Next, we’ll visit your space to review the architecture, the interior design, visibility and how the space is viewed and used by your customers, employees and anyone else that matters. If your space is under construction, we’ll spend time reviewing the blueprints and renderings with you.
If multiple business signs are necessary, we’ll develop a master sign plan that catalogs all necessary sign and graphic design elements.
When exterior signs are in scope, we’ll review the local sign ordinance to identify all relevant rules and regulations before design.
Finally, we get creative. Our environmental graphic designer begins with conceptual renderings and concludes with engineered drawings that leave no important detail undefined. Material samples, prototypes and 3D models can be produced to aid in the approval process.
What do you get by hiring Ideation to handle your custom sign design? Peace of mind.
If you’re looking for a partner that will design the right solution, use materials of appropriate quality for your business signs, and deliver according to plan, you won’t find us expensive at all.
However, if you’re just looking for the cheapest price, you’ll find us expensive.
Going right for the million-dollar question, eh? Below are typical ranges for some common business signs and applications. Our goal though is to design a solution that balances the impact you’re trying to make with the characteristics of your space and budget. If you don’t have a budget in mind, we’ll help you establish a reasonable production budget and then design accordingly.
Graphic Design can take as little as 1 week and sometimes more depending on the scope and surveying requirements of your project. An exterior facade sign takes on average 2 weeks while a comprehensive wayfinding sign system might take a couple of months. When we talk we can give you a more specific answer.
Exterior signs often require a city sign permit. This step generally takes 2 weeks from design approval.
Below are average production and installation turnaround times:
Ideation manages all aspects of production and installation for a smooth transition from graphic design to implementation.
Our in-house production capabilities combined with our team of printing and fabrication specialists leads to a best-in-class production capacity across a wide range of solutions.
Our teams of installation experts are setup by installation type, ensuring the highest degree of proficiency whether the installation involves pouring concrete footings, wiring electrical or installing murals and displays.
Yes, we’ll take care of city sign permits for business signs and outdoor signs.
Absolutely. We often work with creative agencies, environmental graphic designers, and architects that already have a design.
We’ll review your design with you to make sure we’re all on the same page and tell you if there’s a better way to produce it than what you have specified. Our price will include engineering and installation-ready elevation drawings that are necessary for a smooth implementation.
Ideation designs to move people in metro Detroit. These people are your customers, employees and investors. We design to change how they feel, to move them toward a goal and sometimes to literally move them from one place to another. Our graphic design and custom signs can make your people proud, happy, productive, inspired, comfortable and more.
