Nick Garrett

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  • Traditional Sign Writer Nick Garrett – what I do

    nickgarrett's avatarNick Garrett Margate & London Traditional Signwriting & Glass Gilding

    Nick specialises in today’s retail decorative painted signs. Producing classical Copperplate scripts, Roman lettering, Fine Classical block fonts, Retro Vintage sign replication, murals, traditional pub signwriting, traditional van writing, glass gilding, architectural gilding and gold leaf lettering.

    In the modern world NGS utilise full digital design technology and logo vectorisation.  I can replicate your logo perfectly… yet always completing it in paint, by hand.  In fact recently a lot of projects involved hand rendered layouts and traditional painting.  Hand painting always adds life the your signwork… and life adds to it’s communicability.

    Hand Painted signwriting for Queen’s dressmaker Stewart Parvin of London

    SEE THE VIDEO MAKING THE POD Mural, at Mansion House, London

    Revival of the hand painted sign

    Today I am still proudly producing some of the nicest hand painted creative signs in the capital.  Have a wander around the site and I hope you are inspired by the…

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  • 9 Beliefs of Remarkably Successful People

    9 Beliefs of Remarkably Successful People

    The most successful people in business approach their work differently than most. See how they think–and why it works.

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    I’m fortunate enough to know a number of remarkably successful people. Regardless of industry or profession, they all share the same perspectives and beliefs.

    And they act on those beliefs:

    1. Time doesn’t fill me. I fill time.

    Deadlines and time frames establish parameters, but typically not in a good way. The average person who is given two weeks to complete a task will instinctively adjust his effort so it actually takes two weeks.

    Forget deadlines, at least as a way to manage your activity. Tasks should only take as long as they need to take. Do everything as quickly and effectively as you can. Then use your “free” time to get other things done just as quickly and effectively.

    Average people allow time to impose its will on them; remarkable people impose their will on their time.

    2. The people around me are the people I chose.

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