Privacy without gloom
Every internal glass panel took an optically clear film printed with a white gradient — dense across seated height, fading to clear at the head of the pane so borrowed daylight still reaches the middle of the floor.
Sydney CBD project · Whole-floor glass and identity package
A gradient that gives you privacy at desk height and daylight above it.
Bluestone's Sydney CBD office is glazed almost end to end. The brief was privacy at desk height without losing the daylight, plus a reception identity strong enough to hold the lift lobby. One package, several very different surfaces.
Sydney CBD · Surveyed June 2026, installed July 2026
The reception wall from the lift lobby
The name and logo mark are laser cut from clear acrylic and reverse printed, so the navy reads through the body of the material rather than sitting on the face of it. Under the downlight each letter throws a soft halo onto the wall behind.
- Location
- Sydney CBD, NSW
- Completed
- July 2026
- Wall graphic
- Digitally printed vinyl, 4800 × 2325 mm
- Cut vinyl
- 140 locker numbers at 50 mm, 16 room names at 80 mm
The project in detail
Doors, partitions, a curved window, a glass pod and a wall that becomes a door.
Fifteen photographs from the Sydney CBD installation — the marked-up survey, both entrance doors, the meeting rooms and the curved pod, the shaped window, the long glazed runs, and one room recorded three times: measured, clear, then filmed.
All photographs are of the Bluestone installation in Sydney. Three of them are the same room — surveyed with the pane sizes marked on the glass, then clear, then with the film installed. Furniture, posters and the base building's own signage visible in frame belong to Bluestone, not to this scope.
Project at a glance
One floor, three problems: privacy, identity and sheer volume.
A glazed workplace looks effortless and behaves like the opposite. Every pane is a compromise between what people want to see out of and what they do not want seen. This package resolved that pane by pane, then added the brand work on top.
Identity at the threshold
The lift lobby and both entrance doors carry the brand: dimensional acrylic lettering on the reception wall, a half-logo wall graphic, and gradient film with the hexagon icon held clear inside it.
156 small pieces
Behind the headline work sat the volume: 140 numbered locker labels and 16 room names, each one weeded, positioned and squared by hand to a consistent height.
How it came together
Survey the glass, prove the artwork, then work around the staff.
Nothing about a glazed fit-out can be set out from a floor plan. Panel widths, mullion positions, door swings and the height of a seated eyeline are all facts of the building, and they only become reliable once someone has stood in the space with a tape measure.
Read the four delivery stages
- 1
Measure the openings
A site inspection recorded each glazed opening, the door and sidelight sizes, the curved apertures and the wall the reception lettering would sit on, with photographs tied back to every measurement.
- 2
Prove it on screen
The artwork ran through four mockup rounds before anything was cut, so the gradient density, the icon placement and the room-name treatment were all agreed against the real photographs of the floor.
- 3
Build it in our own workshop
Film and vinyl were digitally printed, laminated and contour cut; the reception panel and raised logo were laser cut from clear acrylic and reverse printed before the silver panel mounts were set out.
- 4
Install before the floor fills
The team started early in the morning, wet-applying film pane by pane and working room to room so the office could keep operating around them. Remaining items followed by courier the same day.
Project anatomy
Three materials, each doing a job the others could not.
Glass, wall and reception panel each behave differently under light and under wear. The specification followed the surface rather than forcing one product across the whole floor.
Optically clear film, printed gradient
Rather than a frosted substrate, this is a clear film carrying a printed white gradient. That is what allows the density to change up the height of the pane instead of stopping at a hard band edge.
Explore office window frosting10 mm clear acrylic, reverse printed
The reception panel is laser cut from 10 mm clear acrylic with a 6 mm raised logo, reverse printed and held off the wall on silver panel mounts so the letters read with depth and a shadow line.
Explore acrylic signsPrinted self-adhesive vinyl
Wall graphics took a clear matte laminate to kill glare across a 4.8 metre span; locker numbers and room names took gloss, contour cut and applied to the outer face of each panel.
Explore window decalsMaterial decision
Why print a gradient instead of applying a frost band?
A standard frost band is a horizontal strip at a fixed height. It works, and on a floor with this much glass it would have read as a stripe wrapping the office. A printed gradient changes density continuously, so it is opaque where a seated person needs cover and effectively gone by the top of the pane. The privacy is the same and the floor keeps its light.
Gradient height and density should be set against the actual seated eyeline, glass module and daylight on each floor rather than carried across from this project.
Pricing context
What shapes the price of an office glass package?
Packages like this are quoted against the surveyed floor rather than by the square metre alone. We explain the cost drivers without publishing Bluestone's commercial terms.
- Total glazed area, panel count and how many separate openings need setting out
- Whether the film is plain, printed, gradient or double sided, and whether logos are held clear
- Shaped or curved apertures, which need contour cutting rather than straight trimming
- Volume of small cut vinyl items such as locker numbers and room names
- Access, install hours and whether the floor stays occupied during the work
Send photographs of the glazing, approximate panel sizes and vector artwork for a current indication. Final pricing follows the confirmed survey.
Technical detail
The deeper project information, available when useful.
The main story stays visual and easy to scan. Open these sections for the delivered scope, the evidence in the photography and the specifications that still need a site-specific review.
The Trello production record and owned project photographs support the following Sydney office scope.
- Site inspection of the tenancy, its glazed openings and the reception wall
- Printed gradient film to the internal glass panels across the floor
- Two entrance doors in gradient film with the logo icon held clear, one double sided
- Reverse-printed clear acrylic reception lettering with a raised logo on panel mounts
- A digitally printed wall graphic and a half-logo cut graphic at the lift entrance
- 140 numbered locker labels and 16 cut vinyl room names
These details belong to this Bluestone project and should not be transferred to another site without review.
- Wall graphic: digitally printed self-adhesive vinyl, clear matte lamination, 4800 × 2325 mm
- Internal glazing: optically clear film, printed white gradient
- Entrance doors: printed gradient film with transparent logo icon, one door double sided
- Reception lettering: 10 mm clear acrylic panel, 6 mm raised logo, silver panel mounts
- Reception print method: reverse printed behind laser-cut clear acrylic
- Locker labels: cut self-adhesive vinyl, gloss laminate, 50 mm lettering, 140 off
- Room names: cut self-adhesive vinyl, gloss laminate, 80 mm high, applied to the outer face
Glazed tenancies vary more than they look, so the survey drives the specification rather than the other way round.
- Seated eyeline against the glass module, which sets where the gradient has to be densest
- Whether any glazing is curved, shaped or framed on more than two edges
- Which doors are approached from both faces and therefore need double-sided print
- Manifestation requirements for full-height glazing under the building's own rules
- Whether the floor is occupied, and what install hours the building permits
Sydney proof · National capability
One Sydney floor, repeatable across a branch network.
This case study documents a single Bluestone floor in the Sydney CBD. For businesses running several offices, Platinum Signs can hold one approved film, artwork and material standard across the network while surveying each floor for glazing type, seated eyeline, access and install timing.
- One approved gradient, artwork and material standard
- Site-by-site survey of glazing modules and shaped openings
- Coordinated printing, staging and installation around occupied floors
Prepare a useful brief
What to send for an office glass package.
A clear first brief lets the team assess film type, gradient, fixing and install sequencing before confirming scope and price.
Read the four-point quoting checklist
- 1
Photographs of the glazing
Shoot each glazed run straight on, including the doors, any curved or shaped windows, and enough of the surrounding finishes to see how the glass sits in the space.
- 2
Panel sizes and counts
Approximate width and height per panel and a rough count is enough to start. Confirmed sizes come from the survey.
- 3
Vector artwork
Supply approved logo files, brand colours and any guidance on lock-ups, minimum sizes and how the icon may be used.
- 4
Access and occupancy
Confirm building induction, permitted install hours, and whether staff will be working on the floor while the film goes on.
Frequently asked questions
Questions this project usually raises.
Practical answers about gradient film, shaped glazing, reverse-printed acrylic, installing around staff and what drives the price.
Printed gradient film to the internal glass panels across the floor, both entrance doors in gradient film with the logo icon held clear, reverse-printed clear acrylic reception lettering with a raised logo, a 4800 × 2325 mm printed wall graphic, a half-logo cut graphic at the lift entrance, 140 numbered locker labels and 16 cut vinyl room names.
Standard frosting is a uniform film, usually applied as a band at a fixed height, so it has a hard top and bottom edge. Gradient film is an optically clear film with a white gradient printed onto it, so opacity changes continuously up the pane. You get full cover at seated height and clear glass above it, which keeps daylight moving through the floor.
Yes. On this floor a leaf-shaped window set into a timber veneer wall took film contour cut to follow the curve. Shaped apertures need the profile taken at survey and the film cut to that profile rather than trimmed on site, because a curve trimmed by hand shows every wobble.
Reverse printing puts the ink on the back of the clear acrylic, so the colour is read through the body of the material and the front face stays a clean, wipeable gloss surface. On a reception wall that gets cleaned and occasionally knocked, the print cannot be scuffed off, and the material depth gives the letters a glow under downlights.
Usually not. Film is wet applied pane by pane, so the work moves room by room rather than shutting a floor. On this project the team started early in the morning and worked around staff, with the remaining items delivered by courier the same day.
Price depends on glazed area and panel count, whether the film is plain, printed, gradient or double sided, how many shaped openings need contour cutting, the volume of small cut vinyl items, and the access and hours the install needs. Send photographs, approximate panel sizes and vector artwork for a current indication.
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Glazed floor with a privacy problem?
Send photographs of your glazing, approximate panel sizes and your vector artwork. We will help set the gradient, the film type and the install sequence around the way your floor actually works.