València Signs: architecture on decorative plaques

The project

València Signs brings the city's landmark buildings into a collection of decorative objects and keepsakes. At Archicercle, we designed the plaques and produced the laser-cut and engraved version, as well as a version printed on the same type of plywood.

The collection features Mercado de Colón, Estación del Norte, Micalet, Torres de Serranos, L'Oceanogràfic and the Catedral. Each building is represented through a line drawing accompanied by text, within a circular format shared across the series.

For the version introduced in November 2020, we used phenolic-bonded birch plywood with laser cutting and engraving. The outline of the plaque and its architectural illustration are created through two distinct operations on the same material.

In December 2020, we also introduced the version printed on phenolic-bonded birch plywood. This variant retains the architectural theme of València Signs and sits alongside the laser-engraved option: two ways of producing the collection, rather than two processes used interchangeably across every piece.

The campaign was launched with València's designation as World Design Capital in 2022 in mind. Its aim was to offer decorative objects and keepsakes that people could take home as a reminder of the city: recognisable architecture translated into a wooden piece.

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