SERVICES

FOUND is a Los Angeles environmental graphic design and wayfinding studio working with clients across the United States and around the world. The studio designs the systems that help people navigate and experience the built world — signage, wayfinding, environmental graphics, brand identity, and large-format digital media — for civic spaces, corporate and workplace environments, high-rise and mixed-use developments, cultural institutions, and technology headquarters worldwide.

Signage and Wayfinding

FOUND designs comprehensive signage and wayfinding systems that help people move intuitively through complex environments, from civic campuses and corporate workplaces to high-rise and mixed-use developments. Every program balances clarity, code compliance, and design that belongs to its place.

Environmental Graphics

Environmental graphics turn architecture into experience. FOUND integrates typography, color, material, and art into the built environment to give a space its identity and tell its story at full scale.

Architectural Graphic Design

FOUND works alongside architects and developers from early design through installation, resolving how graphics, signage, and identity live within a building's materials, sightlines, and details.

Branding & Identity

FOUND creates brand identities built to live in the physical world as much as on screen: logos, visual systems, and naming that hold together from a business card to a building facade.

LED Spectaculars & Digital Displays

From concept through permitting and content, FOUND designs large-format LED displays and digital spectaculars, including some of the largest and most advanced screens in the country, transforming facades and public spaces into immersive experiences.

Nomenclature and Addressing

FOUND develops the naming, numbering, and addressing logic that makes large developments legible, defining how levels, zones, buildings, and units are named so both people and wayfinding can find them.

Signage Entitlements

FOUND navigates signage entitlements and code, researching municipal requirements, ADA and CBC compliance, and approvals so sign programs are permitted and buildable, not just beautiful.

Master Sign Programs

FOUND authors master sign programs that set the standards and family of sign types for an entire development, giving owners a consistent, code-compliant framework that scales across phases.

Tenant Guidelines

FOUND produces tenant signage guidelines that keep multi-tenant properties cohesive, defining what tenants can build, where, and how, to protect the design intent of the whole.

Digital Wayfinding / UX Design

FOUND designs digital wayfinding and the interfaces behind it: interactive directories, mapping, and mobile experiences that bring UX design principles to how people navigate physical space.

Digital Media Content / Management

Beyond the hardware, FOUND creates and manages the content that lives on digital displays, designing motion, media, and messaging along with the systems to keep them current.

Digital Public Art

FOUND designs digital public art that merges art, technology, and place, creating experiential, often large-scale work that gives a development a signature moment.

Website Design

FOUND designs and builds websites and UX/UI that extend a brand's identity online, carrying the same design rigor from the built environment to the screen.


OUR FULL SCOPE

FOUND delivers branding, wayfinding, and environmental graphics across the complete arc of a project — from first strategy through installation on site.

Brand Strategy & Positioning

Defining the identity, voice, and story of a place — the strategic foundation that shapes how a project looks, feels, and communicates.

Visual Identity Systems & Logo Design

Developing logos, visual identity systems, and the typography, color, and materiality that give a place a distinct and lasting presence.

Environmental Graphics & Placemaking

Integrating graphics, art, and narrative into the built environment — including large-format LED displays, digital media, and public art — turning architecture into experience and giving a space its character.

Wayfinding Strategy & Circulation Analysis

Studying how people move through a space and mapping the decision points, routes, and destinations that a wayfinding system must resolve.

Naming & Message Hierarchy

Establishing the nomenclature, terminology, and information hierarchy that determine what each sign says and in what order people need to read it.

Sign Location Plans & Sign Schedule

Documenting every sign's placement, type, and message across the site — coordinating the plan set, schedule, and signage entitlements, including code research and ADA and CBC compliance, so the program aligns with both the architecture and the approvals it needs.

Design Development & Detailed Drawings

Advancing the design from concept to buildable detail: sign-type drawings, dimensions, materials, and specifications ready for fabrication.

Specifications & Fabricator Coordination

Preparing the technical specifications and working directly with fabricators to ensure the built result matches the design intent.

Mockups & Prototyping

Reviewing physical mockups and prototypes to confirm materials, finishes, legibility, and detailing before full production.

Budgeting & Cost Planning

Establishing realistic budget ranges early and aligning the sign program to them, so design decisions account for cost and feasibility from the start.

Construction Administration

Supporting the project through fabrication and installation — reviewing shop drawings, answering RFIs, conducting site visits, and seeing the program through to completion.