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What a construction & trades mark has to do
A construction mark spends its life on a truck door, a site board, a hard hat and a hi-vis vest. It is applied by sign makers and embroiderers, not by designers, and it has to survive all of them.
- Bold enough to read from a moving vehicle
- Reproduces in a single colour for vinyl, embroidery and stamping
- No fine detail that closes up when cut from vinyl or stitched
- Strong horizontal lockup for a truck door and a stacked one for a site board
Drawing it as a symbol and wordmark
A symbol paired with the name is the most flexible arrangement: the pair does the introducing, and once the audience knows the business, the symbol can travel alone.
- 1The symbol is built from as few shapes as will carry the idea, because every additional element is another thing to lose at small size.
- 2The lockup is spaced so the symbol and the name read as one unit rather than two adjacent things.
- 3Horizontal, stacked and symbol-only versions are drawn as separate lockups rather than rearranged on the fly.
The mistake this sector makes most
Detail is the enemy here. A mark that looks sharp on screen and turns to mush when embroidered onto a polo shirt is a mark that fails on the item most customers will actually see.
Where this mark has to live
A logo is not finished when it looks right on a screen. It is finished when it still works on every surface the business will put it on, which in this sector means at least these:
- Vehicle doors and wraps
- Site hoarding and signage
- Embroidered workwear
- Invoices and estimates
What was handed over
Every project delivered by this studio ships the same way, whichever package it was bought under: editable vector masters, every export a printer or a developer asks for, and the written copyright assignment that makes the mark genuinely the client’s.
| Vector masters | Editable AI and EPS, plus PDF and SVG. Everything else can be regenerated from these, which is why they matter more than any export. |
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| Web and social exports | PNG with transparency and JPG at the sizes profiles, favicons and site headers need. |
| Lockup variants | Horizontal and stacked arrangements, a single-colour version, and a reversed version for dark backgrounds. |
| Colour and type reference | Exact colour values for print and screen, and the typefaces used, so anything made later matches. |
| Copyright assignment | Written transfer of the design to the client. Not a licence — the assignment is what makes trademark registration in their own name possible. |
A note on what this page does not claim. We publish the mark, the sector it was drawn for and how work of this kind is built. We do not publish a client’s budget, timeline or commercial results, and we do not invent them. If a client wants their project written up in full, they tell us so and we ask them for the numbers.
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