Atlanta, Fulton County. Served from our Kennesaw studio
Office branding, architectural signage and fleet graphics for Downtown, Midtown, Tech Square, West Midtown and the BeltLine, from high-rise suites to converted warehouse lofts.
Installs for Atlanta Braves, Deloitte, State Street, Flexport, Randstad, ADP and JAMS Foundation in Atlanta, plus more work from around metro Atlanta. Tap any image to view it full size.
High Stakes Creative provides corporate branding, branded environments and architectural signage for City of Atlanta organizations in Downtown, Midtown and the Westside from our Kennesaw studio, about 25 miles and 30 to 45 minutes away via I-75 South. Since 2007 one team has handled strategy, design, production and installation, so a tenant in a Peachtree Street tower or a West Midtown loft works with one partner from design through City of Atlanta permitting and after-hours installation.
Atlanta is the Fulton County seat, with 498,715 residents at the 2020 census and a city limit that reaches into DeKalb County. Downtown holds more than 26 million square feet of office space along with the State Capitol, the Fulton County Government Center, Georgia State University, which enrolled 53,144 students in fall 2025, and the Georgia World Congress Center, one of the largest convention centers in the country. Next to it, the $5 billion Centennial Yards project is adding hotel rooms, housing and retail on 50 acres near Mercedes-Benz Stadium and State Farm Arena.
Midtown, with about 22 million square feet of office space, is metro Atlanta's second-largest business district and the headquarters address of companies including The Coca-Cola Company, NCR, Invesco and Equifax. At Tech Square, beside Georgia Tech, Delta, The Home Depot, Chick-fil-A, UPS and others run corporate innovation centers. West of the Connector, West Midtown's former mills and warehouses now hold loft offices that draw tech firms, Atlantic Station has office towers on 17th Street where the Atlantic Steel mill once stood, and Ponce City Market, the 2.1 million-square-foot former Sears building on the BeltLine in Old Fourth Ward, mixes offices with retail. A project here can mean tower rules and freight elevators one week and anchoring letters to 100-year-old brick the next.
Reception logo walls, dimensional letters, conference-room glass film and brand walls for suites in Downtown and Midtown towers and loft offices in West Midtown and Old Fourth Ward. We prepare submittals for building management, book freight elevators, install after hours, and match colors to your brand standards rather than a close guess.
Branded environments
Building identification, blade and wall signs, monument signs, parking-deck wayfinding and ADA room signs for office, campus and mixed-use properties. City of Atlanta applications call for scaled street-front elevations, renderings, a site plan for freestanding signs and UL numbers for lit signs, and we produce those drawings as part of the sign package.
Architectural signage
Companies headquartered in Midtown or Downtown usually run offices across the region and beyond. When a name, logo or merger changes the brand, we survey every location, build one sign schedule, and change out lobby, suite and building signage in planned waves so headquarters and branches carry the new brand within a defined window.
Rebrand rollouts
Service, delivery, property management and hospitality companies based inside the Perimeter keep vans, trucks and shuttles moving through the city all day. We design one approved layout per vehicle type, install with certified 3M and Avery Dennison installers, and stage vehicles in batches so routes keep running.
Fleet wraps & graphics
32Landmark: Centennial Olympic Park
Wall graphics, wayfinding, donor walls and athletic branding for campuses like these.
Offices, medical campuses, retail, industrial sites, venues and civic buildings: the kinds of places that need lobby branding, signage, wall graphics and fleet graphics.
Inside city limits, sign permits come from the City of Atlanta Department of City Planning's Office of Buildings at 55 Trinity Avenue, not from Fulton or DeKalb County, and applications are filed online through the city's Accela portal. The sign application asks for two copies of scaled street-front elevations and sign renderings, a site plan for freestanding signs, a notarized affidavit that the owner authorizes the work, and UL numbers for internally lit signs. Lit signs also need a lighting affidavit and a foot-candle test within 10 days of installation. Historic and landmark districts add Office of Design review of exterior work, and Downtown's Gulch area has its own sign overlay district. The city does not publish a standard review time for sign permits. We prepare the full package.
One schedule and one point of contact from the first walkthrough to the final punch list.
The City of Atlanta's Office of Buildings, part of the Department of City Planning, issues sign permits for every property inside city limits, including the parts of Atlanta in DeKalb County. Applications go through the city's Accela portal. We confirm the parcel's zoning and any overlay or historic district, then prepare the elevations, renderings, site plan and affidavits the application requires.
Yes. The city's lighting affidavit says the permit does not approve the sign's lighting. Within 10 days of installation, an internally lit sign must be tested for foot-candle intensity at the nearest residential district boundary, and a notarized affidavit showing it complies must be filed. We plan for that test as part of the install.
Yes. High-rise buildings typically require a certificate of insurance naming the owner and manager, a freight elevator reservation, and after-hours scheduling for drilling or common-area work. We plan to those rules, protect finishes in occupied suites, and finish reception signs, wall graphics and glass film overnight or over a weekend.
Yes. Converted warehouses and mills usually call for different methods than drywall offices: standoff or stud-mounted dimensional letters set into mortar joints, films rated for textured surfaces, and glass graphics that work with steel-frame windows. We survey the walls first and get landlord approval on mounting methods before anything is fabricated.
Yes. Buckhead is part of the City of Atlanta, so its sign permits go through the same Office of Buildings, and our Buckhead page covers Peachtree Road and Lenox. Sandy Springs and Dunwoody are separate cities with their own permit offices, and each has its own page. Smyrna and Vinings, just across the Chattahoochee in Cobb County, have one as well.
Yes. We survey each office, produce one sign schedule listing every sign type, size and material by location, pilot one or two sites, then move through the rest in planned waves. Design, production and installation stay with one team, so a Midtown reception wall and a branch office in Cobb or Gwinnett come from the same files.
Tell us about the space, the brand and the date. We'll scope it, schedule it and handle it start to finish from Kennesaw.
