SignBox Blog

Eleven of the Signbox team are recovering this week after undertaking the gruelling National 3 Peaks Challenge at the weekend to raise money for charity. Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales respectively, were all scaled within 24 hours as over £7000 was collectively raised for Children with Special Needs Foundation, Southampton Hospital Charity and Phyllis Tuckwell.

How has your business’s external signage weathered the winter? Find our handy checklist to ensure that your signs are working as hard for your business as you are.

Thanks to technology, remote working has never been easier, and as increasing numbers of employees take advantage of this, how can companies avoid losing their sense of shared identity and encourage their people back into the office?

The tension between form and functionality is a constant trend in architecture and construction, with Apple’s much publicised new HQ in Cupertino, California a notable example. A company that so jealously guards its brand identity and places such high importance on its “look” will always face a challenge in assuring necessary functionality. When it comes to its electronic products, Apple has honed this into a fine art – leading the market on both counts – but can a construction project be managed in quite the same way?

With office space costs soaring and technology making remote working more possible than ever before, more and more companies are designing flexible, or “agile” workplaces to accommodate the modern workforce.

“Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.”

– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
 

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

“We think of infinity as a really big number, but it’s not. It’s endlessness. Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is" 

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

– Brian Tracy
 

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

– Steve Ballmer
 

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

– Steve Jobs
 

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.” 
― Che Guevara

“Las Vegas looks the way you’d imagine heaven must look at night.” – Chuck Palahniuk, in “Invisible Monsters”