Custom Signs North York
Don Mills is where IBM Canada actually started: the company's original Canadian headquarters and manufacturing plant opened here in 1951, employing up to 6,000 people at its peak, before IBM relocated to Markham in 1994. The original site became home to Celestica, an IBM spinoff, whose global corporate headquarters still operates from Don Mills today. Don Mills itself is recognized as North America's first fully planned, integrated post-war community, and its Shops at Don Mills retail development includes a working clock tower sculpture designed by Canadian artist Douglas Coupland. A few kilometres away, North York Centre at Yonge and Sheppard is a genuinely different environment, dense with condo and office towers that function as something close to a second downtown for Toronto.
Like Scarborough and Etobicoke, North York is part of the City of Toronto rather than its own municipality, so the same municipal sign bylaw applies here as downtown.
We design, manufacture, and install signage entirely in-house, and we work with North York business owners online, by email and phone, rather than through a retail storefront.
Email: hello@branditt.ca
Signage for Don Mills
Don Mills carries genuine corporate history, home to Celestica's global headquarters and a mix of established office tenants, alongside a retail and residential character built around 1950s garden-city planning principles that's unlike most of Toronto's newer developments.
What we build for Don Mills businesses:
- Monument signs for corporate campus entrances
- Directory signs for multi-tenant office buildings
- Channel letter signs for retail at Shops at Don Mills and surrounding plazas
- Directional signs and wayfinding and utility signs for larger office campuses
- Office interior signs for reception branding
- Plaques, including metal plaques and acrylic wall plaques
Further reading: How Modern Lobby Signage Increases Property Value. Completed work: indoor signs portfolio.
Signage for North York Centre
North York Centre, the high-rise cluster around Yonge and Sheppard, functions as something close to a second downtown for Toronto, dense with office and condo towers in a way that's genuinely different from Don Mills' lower-rise, campus-style office park character.
What we build for North York Centre:
- Directory signs, common in multi-tenant towers
- Monument signs for tower and mixed-use entrances
- Channel letter signs for street-level retail
- Blade signs, suited to pedestrian retail near the subway, available illuminated, non-illuminated, as a lightbox, or as premium push-thru
- Traffic and parking signs for tower parking structures
- Custom wall murals and wall decals for condo-level retail feature walls
Completed work: outdoor signs portfolio.
Signage for North York General Hospital and Surrounding Medical Offices
North York General Hospital anchors a significant medical office and clinic base, needing standard wayfinding and reception signage distinct from both Don Mills and North York Centre's commercial identities.
What we build for medical offices:
- Directional signs and wayfinding and utility signs
- Directory signs for medical office buildings
- Office interior signs for reception and room identification
- Non-illuminated signs for interior lettering
Completed work: indoor signs portfolio.
Permits in North York
Because North York is part of the City of Toronto, signage here falls under the same Municipal Code Chapter 694 that applies downtown and in Scarborough, not a separate North York bylaw. Towers around North York Centre, being higher-density construction, often carry site plan conditions from the original development approval that can affect signage. The redevelopment of the former Celestica lands in Don Mills, part of the new community forming around the Eglinton Crosstown transit line, may also carry its own site-specific planning conditions as that project proceeds.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does North York have its own sign bylaw? No, it's part of the City of Toronto, so Municipal Code Chapter 694 applies here as it does downtown and in Scarborough.
Do you do directory signage for office towers? Yes, this is a regular request from buildings around North York Centre and Don Mills.
Is there a minimum project size? No, from a single office sign to a full tower lobby package.
Do I need a permit? Most outdoor signs do, under Chapter 694, with newer towers sometimes carrying additional site plan conditions.
Email hello@branditt.ca with your sign type, location, and timeline. We'll follow up with a quote.
Other cities we serve: Toronto, Scarborough, Etobicoke, Vaughan.