Hanging signs for Café Camilo

The project

For Café Camilo, a coffee venue in Valencia’s Benimaclet neighbourhood, we manufactured a set of decorative hanging signs. The work combined laser cutting, painting, staining and assembly to create layered lettering with raised letters.

The signs were made from plywood in different thicknesses. The letters and backing panels were laser-cut as separate components before being joined to form each sign. The rounded outlines of the backing panels follow the arrangement of the words.

Once the components had been cut, we painted the letters in pastel colours and applied an oak-coloured stain to the backing panels. This darkened the wood to create contrast with the pale letters: oak refers to the stain colour, not the wood species.

The final step was to glue the letters onto their corresponding backing panels and attach cord at the rear. This completed the set of hanging pieces, defined by their colour and layered construction.

Processes and materials: fabrication services · available materials · studio machinery.