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About Us

We Improve People’s Lives Through Experiential Design

GNU Group is an experiential graphic design firm based in Pleasant Hill, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California, and beyond. We create signage, wayfinding systems, environmental branding, and planning strategies that help people understand, navigate, and connect with the places around them.

For more than 50 years, our work has been grounded in creativity, collaboration, and thoughtful problem-solving. We believe successful design should respond to its environment, communicate clearly, and improve the human experience. Our award-winning work brings together inventive ideas, practical solutions, and language that feels appropriate to each place and the people who use it.

12
Team Members
50
Years in Business
9
Markets We Serve
235
Cumulative Years of Experience

WE ARE AN EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN FIRM DEDICATED TO SOLVING PROBLEMS

Our Team. GNU’s culture is open and collaborative. Our style is informal but always with purpose, energy and focus.

Creativity. Our success has been a product of award-winning, inventive and innovative design. Design that solves problems.

Collaboration. GNU embraces collaboration with other consultants and value our client’s role as part of our team and process.

Specialists. We understand construction and the critical issues of the interface between signs and the spaces they occupy.

Implementation. We are structured to provide turn-key solutions to respond to our clients’ demands for single-source responsibility.

Our Pledge. Our practice is founded on three guiding mandates: thought leadership, creative design solutions, and a pain-free program management experience.

About Impec Group

In 2021, GNU Group was acquired by Impec Group, the Future of Work Company. Since its founding in 1991, Impec Group has been delivering world-class end-to-end workplace solutions that inspire. Impec Group’s mission is to deliver human-centric workplace solutions based on clients’ needs in support of the lifecycle of the workplace. Through Impec Group, we can connect you to additional service experts in:

Workplace Strategy & Technology

Project & Move Management

Operations & Maintenance

Specialty Maintenance

Talent Acquisition

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