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Remembering and Celebrating: Our Commemorative and Honours Boards

May 8th, 2020 will mark the 75th anniversary of VE-Day, when allied forces accepted Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender. The surrender brought WWII to an end in Europe. Sadly, many planned events up and down the country will now be cancelled … Continue reading

Uneven Walls and Facing the Wind & Rain β€” Two Tricky Signage Installations

No matter what field you work in, you know how it is when you start a job: some are just plain sailing from start to finish some that should be easy turn out to be tricky some that you think … Continue reading

Why Hotels Need Consistent Signage β€” Our Work for The Cosener’s House

If you’ve seen Channel 5’s The Hotel Inspector β€” in which ailing hotels are giving a makeover by the terrifying Alex Polizzi β€” you’ll notice that the signage almost always gets an overhaul. Apart from generally modernising the signs, they … Continue reading

Want a cost-effective way to market your small business? Get vehicle graphics.

When it comes to marketing, small businesses have to be choosy. Without a huge marketing budget to throw around, they have to pick the methods that work reliably. For many small businesses, one of the most cost-effective marketing methods is … Continue reading

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Our recent Work: Vinyl Registration Markings for a Light Aircraft

At Mirage Signs, we regularly supply (and apply) vinyl graphics and registration letters for various types of aircraft. Amongst our jobs, we’ve been lucky enough to work on some fantastic light aircraft. These have included a YAK-29 aerobatic plane at … Continue reading

Just a Typical Day: Signs for Warminster, Westbury, Frome, the Falkland Islands…

Life at Mirage Signs can be summed up in two words: busy and varied. Take this typical day from a few weeks ago. We started by fitting three facia signs for local businesses. We produce a range of facia signs … Continue reading

Specialists in School and College Signs? Avonmouth College is Added to Our Customers

Maybe we should brand ourselves as specialists in signs for educational establishments! After all, over the past year or so, we’ve accumulated quite a list of clients in the education sector. Now, let’s see: Kingdown School St Francis school in … Continue reading

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We Supplied Signage for Ascension Island. Yes, Really.

Like most sign companies, most of our work comes from local businesses and institutions. However, we’re also happy to receive commissions from further afield. For example, take our recent work for the recycling centre on Ascension Island. If you’ve forgotten … Continue reading

Vehicle Graphics: A Simple, Effective Way of Marketing Your Business

Here’s a quick question: what’s the best way for a small business owner to market their service? Search this online and you’ll come away thinking that it’s all to do with social media, email campaigns, creating a ‘buzz’ and other … Continue reading

School Signs, College Signs, Nursery Signs β€” All in Wiltshire and All Our Work

It seems like only five minutes ago that we were installing our last crop of educational signs, in institutions such as Amesbury CE Primary School, Studley Green Primary School, Kingdown School and more recently Warminster School. Summer is often when … Continue reading

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From schools to agricultural machinery β€” if it needs signage, we can supply it!

Sometimes even we’re surprised by the range of signage that we provide. Just to illustrate, take a look at these two examples of our recent work. First up is historic Warminster School. Dating back to 1707, this boarding and day … Continue reading

New signs for Warminster businesses: The Sound Post Ltd and Rotor Blades Ltd

Mirage Signs does business both nationally and internationally, but our local customer base remains very important to us. It’s great to work with other Wiltshire businesses and always a surprise to see quite how diverse these are. For example, we … Continue reading

Customer update: signage for Westbury and Trowbridge businesses

Although we have customers throughout the UK and beyond, much of our work is for businesses right here in Wiltshire. We provide them with building signs, directional signs, projecting signs, and any other sort of signage that’s needed. Two such … Continue reading

Need vehicle graphics in Wiltshire? We’re the local experts.

As one of the busiest signage companies in Wiltshire, our work comes in all shapes and sizes. We design, manufacture and install everything from directional signs to safety signs, and from pub signs to honours boards. One type of signage … Continue reading

Primary schools & puppies: our work for Amesbury CE Primary School and Garston Veterinary Group

In our recent posts, we’ve mentioned our summertime binge on school signs in Wiltshire. And although summer now seems ages ago, we can’t finish our ‘school series’ without proudly showing you our work for Amesbury CE Primary School: We used … Continue reading

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Customer update: EHD London

Mirage Signs are pleased to have recently completed work for EHD London, a bonded wine warehousing and distribution company. We fitted two entrance signs displaying powder-coated one metre square aluminium panels. These used a Spandex signpole 80 system with graphics … Continue reading