National Theatre signage

Published December 2, 2023

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Architectural signage for London’s National Theatre, designed between 2012 and 2015 by Jake Tilson. According to Tilson, “a major focus of the work was to reintroduce some of the signage ideas devised by Ken Briggs in the 1970s”. This extended to the typeface used in Briggs’s signage, which had been stripped off in the 1990s. Tilson used Frutiger’s Serifa with a different ampersand – just like Briggs did.

See more images including some of the process on Tilson’s website.

The NT logo in stencil letters was designed by Ian Dennis at FHK Henrion’s London studio, HDA International in 1974, and introduced in 1976.

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