Services
Genuine Gold Leaf Signage
Mark Serra & Co. offers highly skilled and impactful signage solutions using genuine gold leaf. Centuries-old methods using thin sheets of gold in varying karats create high-visibility, and even a mirror-like finish for storefront windows. Gold leaf, and its ability to stand alone or in-hand with design appropriate paint color options, offers long-lasting, powerful solutions worth the extra investment.
We have completed gold leaf projects, small to large-scale, on Detroit storefronts, throughout Michigan, and as far as Seattle, Washington.
Business Signage
Mark Serra & Co. also provides hand-painted and gold leaf signage services for businesses across industries, with our work appearing across storefronts, sides of buildings, windows, interiors, vehicles and exterior signs.
Period Piece Designs & Faux Ghost Signs
At Mark Serra & Co., we know the history of a community plays a significant role in how people live and how business is done today. We influence our designs with historic elements related to specific communities and customer bases, creating feelings of nostalgia and encouraging community connection.
In addition to design, faux ghost signs can be an effective way to create the same feelings and connections. Faux ghost signs are created using special product mixes and painting methods, giving a distressed and worn feel to modern signage, mimicking the look of actual ghost signs, or the historic, community-adored faded signs and advertisements, often painted on the sides of buildings.
Mark Serra & Co. is a leader in the quality creation of these designs and signs, and is the most trusted source commissioned by some of Detroit’s largest companies and influential small businesses.
Preservation, Restoration
& Re-Creation
Mark Serra & Co. is the leader in addressing historic painted signs and advertisements, or ghost signs, on the sides of buildings in large commercial corridors and small-town Main Streets alike. We are the only company in Michigan with a professional portfolio of restored ghost signs, and have successfully leveled varying community opinions on their existence, in part by creating the “Time-Honored Restoration” which includes both ideologies and methodologies.
If there is a ghost sign that you feel is important on the side of a building you own, or one in a place where you live or conduct business, time is of the essence. Whether it is an overlooked, faded piece clinging to life atop a brick wall, or a surprisingly vibrant piece, exposed by the demolition of an adjoining building, Mark Serra & Co. is the only trusted source, from evaluation through possible restoration.
Mark Serra & Co. also replicates long-gone signage in modern spaces and reimagines modern signage with vintage designs.