Steve Marsh Design Ltd is a signmaker in Kent that designs and manufactures a wide range of signs including shop fascias, point of sale signage, reception signs, building directories, traffic management signs and systems, fire signs and safety signs. Our clients range from small independent businesses to multi-nationals, and we work throughout the UK and in Europe. As a medium sized, privately-owned company we have the staff to provide fast and efficient service, yet maintain personal contact with our clients, allowing us to provide a premium service and stringent quality control that means we get it right the first time.Over the years we have invested heavily in people and machinery, gradually developing and growing our business. Our staff are highly skilled local people, providing a flexible workforce who are equally happy to be manufacturing signs at our works in Dover or be travelling the length of the UK as part of our specialist installation team. To meet the needs of our customers we are constantly looking at manufacturing new styles of signage, whilst continuing to use traditional methods where appropriate to our clients’ needs.As part of our services in fitting out company reception areas and offices, we found our clients needed a supplier of high quality furniture including reception seating, tables, counters, desks and office furniture, as well as decorative element such as fine art prints and full wall graphics, so Steve Marsh Design now offers furnishing and interior design services to our clients.With years of experience in every kind of signage and corporate presentation Steve Marsh Design Ltd can offer you concept to completion at an affordable rate.

Implementing sales and moving the company forward into new directions. Obtaining London Based clients to further the portfolio.Involvement in a subsidiary company selling medium to high range Office Furniture.Continuing to support previous contacts and introducing new clients.

Spanish owned company based in Elephant & Castle-Central London.Offering photocopying & document creation services. Implementing sales of new wide format printers for London based architects. This position offered an opportunity to explore digital printing further with a different range of clients, and led to additional sales opportunities offering office furniture as a complementary service.

Ashford KENT based sign company.Sales representative, UK basedAn opportunity to broaden the range of signs offered to clients and explore new markets.Clients including:Jones Lang LaSallePort of DoverP&O, Seafrance and Eurotunnel

Dover-based signage manufacturer with well-established clients in the Car and Ferry industries, and manufactured a great deal of the signage for the ports of Dover, Felixstowe and Newhaven.At this time the signage industry faced increasingly rapid technological change with the introduction of computer cut vinyl lettering and digital printing. Skills developed included managing changing technologies and clients’ understanding of them, team-building and customer relations.Listed into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest sign with continuous illumination spanning 89meters for the port of Dover.Projects included:Vehicle livery and exhibitions for Daihatsu UK and Alfa Romeo, vehicle liveries for many UK businesses. Branding for estate agencies including shop fascias and for sale boards.Seafrance, P&O, Sealink. From re branding to every day servicing. In the UK & France.All aspects of Vinyl and poster printing for point of sale industry.

Joined as a screen printer, rising to foreman then representative of the company for sales and client project management in the throughout the UK and Europe.At this time screen printing remained the foremost technology for signmakers, but technolgies and design capabilties were moving away from traditional handcrafted skills to more economic computer driven design and printing methods. Flint signs were early adopters of the new technology offering new opportunities to promote to clients..Skills developed: All aspects of screen printing working on many unusual substrates including Glass and Formica. Digital signage technologies, signage design, customer relations and management skills.On and off site Exhibition Manufacturing in the UK and Germany for Ferranti & Monotype.Commercial and TV work to include the ‘Minder’ series, Commercials props: 30’ high bold soap powder Box.5’ Wriggles Spearmint for beach commercial.Printed back-drop in the ‘Passage To India.’ Barclays’ Bank commercials.Servicing Heathrow Airport and to include signs for the then new Heathrow T4.Clients: Elstree studios, Isleworth, Pinewwod and Shepperton StudiosAirlinesBritish Airports Authority.British Airways, manufacturing fascias for agents throughout the far east and AfricaFilm CompaniesFrench Connection and many other high street brandsBanksExhibition /Olympia and Earls Court

Dubbing children’s school tapes for school resources.

A comprehensive introduction to sign-making in the pre-digital era, gaining experience in all areas of Screen printing: with an additional training in sign writing.Projects included: work for Alfred Marks recruiting campaigns, Gold leafing columns in London.