FASTSIGNS® has just completed its ‘swine’ of a job creating plaques, stickers and signs directing and informing people about one hundred pigs situated around the streets of Bath in aid of the City’s ongoing King Bladud’s Pigs fundraising project.

To celebrate the legend of King Bladud, businesses and local groups have individually sponsored each of the uniquely decorated life-size pig sculptures, which can be found in public spaces all over Bath and the surrounding area, and which will all be auctioned to raise money for a Bath to Bristol cycle route.
 
FASTSIGNS in Bath has been working alongside the Sustrans Two Tunnels Project, which aims to develop, with the proceeds from this fundraiser, a useful and exciting attraction out of the two disused railway tunnels situated between the cities, by turning them into cycle routes and footpaths.
 
FASTSIGNS created signs to promote the event, as well as 200 window stickers for the sponsors, clothing stickers to publicise the fundraiser and 100 plaques –  one for each pig with its’ name, the sponsor and the artist. There is a map for budding pig finders to help them discover Pigissimo, Bubbles, Lester Piggott (FASTSIGNS’ pig) and their friends.
 
Alan Dun has sculptured these pigs which he modelled on the Tamworth pig, similar to the breed that used to roam around Bath 3000 years ago. Local and national artists and schools were then given the opportunity to get their hands on these sculptures and turn them into works of art.
 
“This project has been great fun, if not a little unusual, particularly when it came to painting our own pig!” commented Bryn Barber, owner of FASTSIGNS Bath. “We have really enjoyed being given the opportunity to work on this unique event, which has created a tremendous amount of interest amongst both visitors and the local community.”