Malcolm Bailey, of Brigg Town Business Partnership, showed pictures and a brief video to explain what it's all going to mean.
The main aim is to get more visitors into town with an obvious benefit to our shops and the prosperity of our community.
Talented students from North Lindsey College, Scunthorpe, set to work to produce designs for the metal arches and a couple of sample sets were presented to guests who attended last night. They were asked to state which of the sets they preferred. Above are four examples.
We must stress these are only "roughs" and much work, discussion and public consultation must take place before there's any chance of seeing workmen putting up the signs.
Brigg Blog told Malcolm at the conclusion of the meeting that we hope a standard typeface will be used for all the signs' lettering. However, it then struck us that with the courtyards offering a wide variety of independent businesses, perhaps this should be reflected by different lettering. We are pedantic about typefaces, having joined the newspaper industry in the 1970s, when we had to learn about hot metal fonts and type sizes, such as pearl, ruby and brevier. The latter, 8pt, is an average size for type used in today's newspapers.
So clearly, we'll need something much larger than that on Brigg's courtyard signs.
They took a show-of-hands last night to indicate whether those attending were generally in favour of the courtyards signs scheme. There were 29 Yes votes and only 2 against.
As Andrew Percy is a Parliamentarian, we can report : "The Ayes have it. The Ayes have it."
We will give more detail about the scheme in our 'Mr Brigg' column in the Scunthorpe Telegraph in next week's issue, on sale from July 27.
1 comment:
In principle it's a good idea, but there is a need to avoid the emphasis an arches. Methinks someone has mentioned arches and the idea has stuck...need to think outside the box.
And the yard's name could be on a separate display.....as someone said the sign has to be read from either side....thus increasing weight and making many arches structurally imposing...
More creative thinking required.
In addition, if the signs' aims are to improve the ambience of the area around Old Courts c/park..as part of an overall improvement , and to increase foot-fall to the shops in the courts...then there is a need to concentrate any creative signage in yards were the shops are..why, for example, waste money on Morley Yard, which is an infertile passageway?
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