Archigrafika

What Archigrafika does

Archigrafika is a New York-based architectural graphic design firm founded in 2009 by Michael Gerbino, specializing in environmental graphics, signage systems, wayfinding design, and brand identity implementation for built environments. The firm's core service integrates graphic design with architectural context, producing custom signage, interpretive graphics, and spatially cohesive brand programs that respect historic and material constraints — including specialty applications such as porcelain enamel outdoor signage and LEED-certified building graphics. Supporting the core design practice are two published monographs with Visual Profile Books ("Graphics for Architecture" and "20 Years of Calendars") and an annual photography calendar series running since 2001 that functions as both portfolio and brand artifact.

The firm's revenue model is project-based professional services delivered through direct enterprise sales, with pricing provided on consultation rather than publicly disclosed. Its core customer segments are large multi-location corporations (WTW spanning 30+ global offices, Aon, Vista Equity Partners, Citibank, Corient Private Wealth), historical and cultural institutions (Trinity Church Wall Street, Green-Wood Cemetery), educational facilities (Pratt Institute, Marymount School, NYU Tandon), and select hospitality and nonprofit clients (Pete's Tavern, The New York Foundling, Salvation Army). The firm operates as Archigrafika New York Corp from its Greenwich Village headquarters with a core team of five professionals supplemented by a network of freelance creative partners (architects, muralists, photographers) for variable project scaling.

Archigrafika has remained privately held and bootstrapped since founding, with no external institutional investment, no M&A activity, and stable team size across 15+ years of operation. Geographic reach is project-driven rather than office-driven, spanning the US, UK, Canada, Spain, Italy, and Bermuda through enterprise client rollouts. The firm's competitive position rests on its specialized domain expertise in architectural graphics, its deep institutional brand portfolio across landmark properties, and the personal reputation of its founder within the New York design community.

Name

Archigrafika

Legal name

Archigrafika New York Corp

Website

https://archigrafika.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Archigrafika is a New York-based, 5-person architectural graphic design firm founded in 2009, delivering environmental graphics, signage, wayfinding, and brand identity programs for enterprise corporations, historic institutions, and educational clients across the US and internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Graphic Design Services

NAICS

Graphic Design Services (541430), Indoor and Outdoor Display Advertising (541850), Architectural Services (541310)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Wayfinding, Signage & Environmental Graphic Design (BPAHAKAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB), Visual Identity & Brand Design Systems (BPAFAEAC), Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

Keywords

• Environmental graphic design
• Architectural signage systems
• Wayfinding design
• Brand identity implementation
• Environmental branding

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Design and Implementation Services: Project-based professional services engagements for architectural graphics, signage design, environmental branding, and brand identity implementation. Clients include corporations, institutions, and cultural organizations requiring physical space design services.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Archigrafika is a New York–based design studio that creates architectural graphics, environmental branding, signage systems, and wayfinding solutions for commercial, institutional, cultural, and hospitality environments. The firm handles everything from brand identity integration in built spaces to the design of donor recognition walls, donor and exhibit signage, and exterior/interior sign programs for high-profile corporate offices, historic sites, and public venues. It also publishes a long-running annual calendar series and accompanying books documenting its street-scene artwork.

Product overview

Archigrafika is a design firm specializing in environmental graphics for architecture. The core offering consists of Graphics for Architecture Services—a comprehensive suite of environmental graphics, signage, and wayfinding design that creates unique, attractive, and vital settings for clients worldwide. Supporting the core design services are complementary products: Archigrafika Calendars (annual photography calendars produced since 2001 featuring street scenes and people) and published books documenting the firm's work and philosophy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architectural Graphics and Environmental Branding Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully implemented brand programs across 30+ WTW office locations globally
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Vocon (Architectural Firm)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner
• James Moffitt (Local Mural Artist)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner
• Christopher Lawing (Local Photographer)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner
• Michael Gerbino (Photography)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner

Scale indicators2 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ESI Design: NYC-based experiential and environmental graphic design firm that creates branded environments, digital experiences, and wayfinding for cultural institutions, corporate clients, and public spaces — directly comparable in scope and clientele to Archigrafika.
• BrandCulture: Environmental graphic design firm specializing in placemaking, signage, and branded environments for corporate, cultural, and transport clients — directly comparable in service offering though geographically focused on Australia/Asia-Pacific.
• Selbert Perkins Design: Specialist environmental graphic design firm focused on wayfinding, signage, and branded environments for corporate, healthcare, education, and cultural clients — a close direct peer in services and client mix.
• Two Twelve (now part of Dotdash Meredith): Wayfinding and signage consultancy known for large-scale civic and corporate wayfinding systems; overlaps with Archigrafika in environmental graphic design for institutional and corporate clients.
• Entro Communications: Environmental graphic design and wayfinding consultancy serving corporate, institutional, and transit clients globally; directly comparable in its end-to-end signage and identity implementation work.
• Ralph Appelbaum Associates: Pioneering exhibit and environmental graphic design firm specializing in museums, cultural institutions, and branded environments — a direct peer in the cultural-institution and exhibition design segments.

Broad incumbents

• Gensler: Global architecture and design firm whose practice includes environmental graphics, signage, and branded environments as part of integrated workplace design — a broader incumbent competing for the same enterprise real-estate budgets.
• Pentagram: Multidisciplinary design firm with a strong environmental graphic design practice among its broad portfolio of brand, digital, and editorial work; competes for similar enterprise and institutional clients but at significantly larger scale.
• Pelli Clarke & Partners: Architecture firm whose projects (including the Willis Tower rebrand that Archigrafika executed) often require integrated environmental graphic design — overlapping with Archigrafika on large institutional and commercial projects.

Emerging players

• Mahan Rykiel Associates: Landscape architecture and urban design firm with growing environmental graphic design capabilities for public realm projects; partial overlap on wayfinding and branded outdoor environments.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/archigrafika
• Facebookfacebook.com/archigrafika
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/archigrafika

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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