Burleigh Heads · Since 1979Burleigh Heads · Gold Coast · Since 1979
SignageBuilt toBe Seen.
Design, manufacture and installation by one experienced Gold Coast team — creating signage that turns your business into something people remember.
- Est. 1979
- Family owned & operated
- Designed & built in Burleigh Heads
More thana sign shop.
Most signage companies sell you a sign. The design comes from one place, the printing from another, the installation from a subcontractor, and if something is wrong nobody owns it.
We run the whole thing. Design, manufacture, fabrication, printing, finishing, approvals and installation all happen under one operation, with qualified tradespeople and over 100 years of combined signage experience across the team.
Our extensive knowledge in signage allows us to gauge what will be effective and more importantly why — so your signage becomes an asset, not a liability.
- Strategy & sign selection
- In-house graphic design
- Manufacturing & fabrication
- Large format printing
- Council approvals & engineering
- Professional installation
Work you'vedriven past.
Shopfronts, illuminated builds, vehicles, hoardings and architectural work across the Gold Coast, South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales.
Every signa business needs.
- 01Shopfront
- 02Illuminated
- 03Architectural
- 04Vehicles
- 05Pylon
- 06Commercial
- 07Property
- 08Windows
- 09Custom
- 10Banners
01 — Shopfront Signage
Signmakers Gold Coast designs, manufactures and installs shopfront signage — fascia signs, under-awning signs, window graphics and illuminated shop signs — from its Burleigh Heads workshop.
One team.Start to finish.
01
Discover
We look at the business, the building, the traffic and who needs to read the sign. What works on a highway frontage is not what works in an arcade.
Reading the building and its frontage 02
Design
Our in-house design team develops the concept and shows you how it sits on your building before anything is cut or printed.
Concept resolved against the real shopfront 03
Manufacture
Production happens in our own workshop — large format printing, CNC, spray booth, vinyl plotters, laminating, and metal and aluminium fabrication.
Fabricated panel finished in the workshop 04
Install
Our own installers complete the job. All Signmakers staff are white card holders, and we can assist with council approvals and engineering specs.
Pylon signage installed on site by our own team
From blank wallto business landmark.
Every sign follows the same path — set out, mounted, installed and illuminated by our own team.
Illustrated sequence
01 / PREP
Positioning, measurements and fixing points are mapped on the wall before anything is drilled.
02 / MOUNT
Fixing points are drilled and aligned to the approved drawing.
03 / INSTALL
Each letter is lifted, seated and levelled against the set-out.
04 / TEST
Lighting and electrical connections are terminated, tested and adjusted.
05 / COMPLETE
Built to be read from the road, day and night.
Made here.Not passed around.
We manufacture using our own machinery, combining traditional signmaking methods with current technology. That is the difference between a signage manufacturer and a company that orders signs in and marks them up.
- 01Large format latex printing
- 02Solvent-based printing
- 03CNC machinery
- 04Spray booth
- 05Vinyl plotters
- 06Laminators
- 07Metal fabrication
- 08Aluminium fabrication
- 09Composites, metals & plastics
- 10Custom one-off production
07 — Since 1979
Established 1979.
- Ownership
- Family owned & operated
- Trading since
- 1979 — over four decades
- Team experience
- 100+ years combined
- Region
- SE Queensland & Northern NSW
Signmaking has changed.Our standards haven't.
Signmakers has been family owned and operated since 1979, servicing South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales. In that time the trade has moved from hand-lettered enamel to CNC routers, LED illumination and digital print at billboard scale.
We adopted all of it, and kept the parts that still produce a better sign. Our team includes tradespeople who can letter a sign by hand and operate the machinery that replaced it — over 100 years of combined experience across the group.
Most of our work comes from businesses that most people on the Gold Coast drive past every week. Signage that is still doing its job a decade after installation is the only real measure of whether it was made properly.
An asset.Not aliability.
Signage is the only advertising most businesses own outright. Done properly it is an asset on the building. Done cheaply it quietly costs you customers you never knew walked past.
- It works while you're closed
- A building sign advertises 24 hours a day for years off a single invoice. No other advertising a small business buys has that shape.
- It decides whether people find you
- Customers who cannot see which building is yours go to the one they can see. Visibility is not branding, it is basic trade.
- It sets the price expectation
- People read the quality of your signage as the quality of your work, before they have spoken to anyone. That judgement is made from the footpath.
- It compounds
- The same sign, seen weekly by the same passing traffic, builds recognition that a short advertising campaign cannot buy.
Judge us onthe signs.
Four decades of work on the Gold Coast is a matter of public record — it is on shopfronts, vehicles and buildings across the coast. Our reviews are on Google, in customers' own words, and we would rather you read them there than read a selected quote here.
Based inBurleigh.
Our workshop is at Unit 1 / 76 Dover Drive, Burleigh Heads — which means the team fabricating your signage and the team installing it are the same people, working from the same building.
Being local matters more than it sounds. Site measures, council requirements and access constraints on a Gold Coast shopfront are things we already know, and if something needs adjusting after install we are twenty minutes away, not interstate.
We work across the Gold Coast and throughout South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales, including Tweed Heads.
Primary service area
- Burleigh Heads
- Gold Coast
Also servicing
- Miami
- Varsity Lakes
- Robina
- Broadbeach
- Surfers Paradise
- Southport
- Palm Beach
- Currumbin
- Coolangatta
- Tweed Heads
- South East Queensland
- Northern New South Wales
Let's buildsomethingpeople notice.
Tell us what you need and where it's going. If you have a logo, plans or a photo of the site, send them through — it means we can give you a far more useful answer.
- paul@signmakers.com.au
- Monday – Friday, 7:00am – 3:30pm