Hospitals, schools, office towers, shopping centres and factories all need signs that let a first-time visitor find their way alone. Sinh Vũ designs the storefront sign and every sign inside: direction signs, floor signs, room signs. All of them share one list of names, so a visitor hears the same name on the sign, on the paperwork and from the staff.
5 steps · 5 approvals on your sidePick a step to see what Sinh Vũ does, what you decide and what you receive.
Step 01 · Discovery and alignment
Step 02 · Strategy and direction
Step 03 · Design
Step 04 · System and usage rules
Step 05 · Rollout
Visitors rarely get lost because the signs are ugly. Usually the names do not match: the sign says one thing, the paperwork another, and the staff use a third. Or the sign hangs where nobody looks, while the turning that needs one most is bare. So Sinh Vũ does not start by drawing signs. Sinh Vũ follows the visitor's route on the floor plan, the top-down drawing of each storey. At every point where people must choose which way to turn, Sinh Vũ marks the need for a sign. Then Sinh Vũ settles one list of names for the whole site to share. Only with those two in place is the first sign designed.
A good sign means a first-time visitor never has to ask.
Wayfinding is the full set of signs that lets visitors find their own way around a site. It needs the brand identity (logo, colours, typeface) in place first, and it has to run alongside the architects, because a sign fixed to a finished wall or ceiling means drilling it open again.
Part 1
Read the floor plan with the architects, trace the route of each group of people, then give every zone and room one agreed name and give each zone a colour.
Route map, list of namesApproved before any sign is drawn
Part 2
Design a sample of each sign type and the storefront sign, testing letter size against the real distance people read from.
Sample sign setApproved before the full system
Part 3
Place signs at every point on the plan, list position, quantity, size and material, then export files for the sign maker.
Production filesThe sign maker can start straight away
Add the two figures together for the real time from kickoff to handover. Your part follows the approval window of each step, so approving early shortens the schedule.
Having these ready keeps the project on schedule. If something is missing, Sinh Vũ can still start, and the handover date moves back accordingly.
Each item states its format and what it lets you do.
See on the floor plan where each sign goes and why it is needed.
Map on the floor plan
The whole site uses one name for one place, with each zone's colour.
Approved list of names
Storefront, direction, floor, room and information signs with one shared set of icons.
Approved sign set
The sign maker gets size and quantity right the first time.
Actual-size files
The four points below are the sign-off yardstick, agreed at the start. The most important one: a first-time visitor reaches the room they need on their own.
A stranger finds the room
A first-time visitor walks from the gate to any room using only the signs, in a test run on the plan or on site.
One test walk
Names match word for word
Zone and room names on the signs match the site's paperwork, website and screens word for word.
Checked against the list
Readable from a distance
Text on each sign type reads from the agreed distance. Every zone carries letters or numbers alongside its colour, so people who struggle with colour can still read it.
Letter size tested
Schedule matches the drawings
The sign placement schedule matches the final floor plan, so the sign maker never has to re-measure.
Checked against the drawings
Quoted by the number of zones, floors and sign types, fixed as one package after seeing the floor plan, with no surcharges along the way. Making and installing the signs is done by the sign maker and is not part of the design fee.
Paid once
Quoted by scope, fixed as one package after seeing the floor plan.
A small, single-floor site that needs a storefront sign and consistent names.
4-6 weeks
Quoted by scope
A site with many rooms and floors where visitors keep asking the way.
6-8 weeks
Quoted by scope
Signs made in large numbers, where colour and lettering must be right before the full run.
9-11 weeks
Quoted by scope
Not sure which tier fits? Talk for 5 minutes and Sinh Vũ will suggest one →
No. Sinh Vũ designs the signs and hands over production files with a schedule of position, quantity, size and suggested material. Your sign maker produces and installs them. In the tier with sample sign-off, Sinh Vũ visits the workshop to check the first sign for colour and lettering before the full run.
Once the floor plan has its functions fixed, and before interior finishing starts. A sign fixed to a finished wall or ceiling means drilling it open again, and wiring for lit signs needs planning early. A site already in operation can still redo its signs: Sinh Vũ walks the site instead of reading drawings.
Sample signs need the brand identity (logo, colours, typeface) first, because signage is where the identity appears largest and for longest. If it is not ready, Sinh Vũ suggests doing the identity first or in parallel: the route map and list of names can start straight away.
Fire safety and emergency exit signs follow the building's approved fire safety file, and the fire safety designer is responsible for them. Sinh Vũ only aligns their style so they sit next to the wayfinding signs and still look like one set.
If the plan changes after the full system is laid out, Sinh Vũ redoes only the changed part of the placement schedule, not the whole system. That is why zone functions should be fixed before that step, while the route map and sample signs can start early.
They can, if colour is the only way to tell zones apart. That is why every zone always carries letters or numbers alongside its colour. Colour helps people remember quickly, and letters and numbers make sure everyone can read it.
Usually 4 to 11 weeks depending on the tier and number of floors, including your approval rounds. Sinh Vũ sets the exact dates around the interior works schedule, so production files are ready before walls and ceilings are finished.
There is no single price, because every site differs in floors, zones, rooms and sign types. The design fee is based on that scope and excludes making and installing the signs. Sinh Vũ reviews the floor plan first and then quotes one fixed package. Our pricing principles are public on the Pricing page.
Send a few lines about your site and the floor plan you have, and Sinh Vũ replies within the working day.