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I can't quite believe this slide with images from/of my site on it, but there it is. @eWalthert also shared it with me here: https://typo.social/@eWalthert/116324225121145931
I've reached out to the organisers about the recording of the […]
Tickets are getting snapped up now.
Get less FOMO and more IOAFS in your life this summer by booking here:
ticketsoft.nl/pos/event/9d589773-8cc1-...
#SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering #Letterheads
Tickets for this year's Letterheads meet in Amsterdam, 27–30 August, go live at midday European time today, 1 April:
www.amsterdamsignpainters.nl/letterheads2026/
#SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering #Letterheads #Amsterdam @IOAFS
View through a window as a sign painter applies gold leaf to the lettering painted on the glass. The text is in reverse and reads "Desu".
New at https://bl.ag online, ‘Like Father, Like Daughter: Continuing Jerry Gomez’s Legacy’, with Paige Gomez piecing together her late father’s legacy — and following in his footsteps.
bl.ag/like-father-like-daughte...
#SignPainting #Nevada
Two vans parks outside warehouse buildings. One is dark blue with yellow and red lettering painted on the side that says "Olympia". Additional flower-based decorations frame this. The other van is yellow-orange and has a starburst overlaid with lettering that reads "Powered by Oly".
Look at these fun two vans from the 1970s/80s that I found while doing some picture research for a forthcoming BLAG feature. They're from the Olympia Brewing Company and their archives at Schmidt House in Tumwater, Washington.
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Woman holding an scale advertising artwork that she's painting onto a brick wall. The artwork has a bright orange background with text that reads "aaaaahhh" and it can be seen that it is an advertisement for Haagen Dasz.
Thank you to Colossal Media for sharing the bl.ag online story about Janine Taylor.
‘Women Who Walldog’: www.colossalmedia.com/field-notes/newsletter-m...
#SignPainting #Walldogs #NewYork #ColossalMedia #Advertising
Many thanks to @jectives for debuting your live publication reviews with BLAG 08; I'll endeavour to share it with the various contributors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxhJbgG8jS0
For more inside the issue visit https://bl.ag/08 where you'll also find the links to join and get a copy sent […]
“Embracing Our Roots” by #handpainted signage #artist Katol Lo and #weaving duo Make & Do HK, portraying stories of Hong Kong’s #textile industry, the history of Nan Fung #Textiles, and #community elements of Tsuen Wan past and present.
#Mural #Art #Painting #SignPainting #StreetArt #Design #Photo
Work in progress - 21 march 2026
#wateenlekkerweertje #signpainting #handlettering #pimping #bob #nuannaarpoq
#fotodagboek #photodiary #since2009
Side-by-side marketing photos for a magazine called BLAG. They show the covers with sign painting related photography under the masthead with the magazines positioned on top of a collection of stickers and a poster insert respectively.
Following a recent stock take, I’m discounting all back issues in the BLAG shop to clear the few remaining copies of BLAG 03 and BLAG 05.
Once they’re gone, they’re gone, just like issues 01*, 02 and 04.
https://shop.bl.ag
*BLAG 01 is now free for all to view […]
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Nuannaarpoq - 18 march 2026
#bob #painting #pimping #loving #marking #customising #signpainting #oneshot #handlettering #nuannaarpoq #extravagantpleasureinbeingalive #loveletters #vanlife #hippiebus #ohtheplaceswellgo
#fotodagboek #photodiary #since2009
Creative workbench scene with two hands applying gold leaf to yellow lettering on a blue sign board.
New at bl.ag online, ‘Brendan Mooney: Memories of a Signwriter’, with a charming short biopic about this retired signwriter from Birr, County Offaly, Ireland.
https://bl.ag/brendan-mooney-memories-of-a-signwriter/
#SignPainting #Signwriting #SignPainters #Signwriters #Birr #Offaly #ShortFilms
People painting lettering and signage directly onto large windows. To the left is someone working on a large newspaper masthead, while to the left they are painting "Amsterdam Letterheads".
I am helping the organisers of this year's Amsterdam Letterheads: “Sea Level” with their email updates.
If you'd like to receive these, then the dedicated event newsletter/mailing list can be joined via this link?
https://bl.ag/#/portal/account/newsletters […]
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A CAPTCHA with 16 squares in a grid asking the user to select those with a motorcycle in them. The picture shows two people riding a motorcycle but, behind them, is a sign painted in red on a white wall that, although incomplete, would read "Juventus".
Today's test of my humanity got me wondering: why don't we have CAPTCHAs that ask us to select all square with hand-painted signs in them? Or with ghost signs, or with a sign painter working, or with a mahl stick?
The time has come to end the motorcycle's […]
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Photo of a book laid flat showing a paintbrush on its spine and the front cover. The cover is largely composed of light green panels on a darker green background with the title "Lettres Decoratives" in extremely dimensional letterforms formed of these two colours. The subtitle "A Century of French Sign Painters' Alphabets" is then in a gold foil below this.
New at https://bl.ag online, ‘Lettres Décoratives and the History of French Sign Painting’, with a look inside the new book from @letterformarchive and the recording from the Salon event with author Morgane Côme […]
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Magazine spread with the headline across the top and a main photo of a woman facing an easel and wearing a t-shirt with a 'Burds of the Brush' design on the back. There is also a little cartoon at the bottom of the right page.
2. ‘Women in Sign Painting: Burds of the Brush, One Year On’ by Rachel E Millar in BLAG 03 (https://bl.ag/03
This piece is also available online here: bl.ag/women-in-sign-painting-b...
Plus there are a few more Burds features and […]
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Magazine spread with the headline in white set over a photo of four women working together on a mural sign on the left page. The right page is mainly text with two small black and white archival images of a women on a scaffold painting a sign.
Wishing brush-wielding women around the world a happy International Women's Day. Here are two relevant features/articles from BLAG back issues:
1. ‘Safe Spaces and Mighty Meets: Representation and Community for Women, Trans, and Nonbinary Sign Painters’ by […]
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Casual alphabet with the word 'Carga Máxima' below painted in letters with flicked single serifs and spurs at the midpoints of the letters. The letter faces are white on the top with a band of yellow then orange below that. A blue drop shade is then applied against the black background.
One from the archive, ‘Carga Máxima and the Sign Painting Styles of Lima, Peru’, with my translation of an article about the evolution of regulatory signage into a vernacular Peruvian lettering style […]
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Book photographed against a grey background. The title, India Street Lettering: A Journey Through Typographic Craft & Culture, and author, Pooja Saxena, are set on a yellow background surrounded by landscape photos of Indian signs in a variety of scripts and media.
Book standing upright. The cover is dominated by the title, "Tberfil, The art of Maltese vehicular decoration in the 20th century".
Photo of a book standing upright showing a paintbrush on its spine. The cover is largely composed of light green panels on a darker green background with the title "Lettres Decoratives" in extremely dimensional letterforms formed of these two colours. The subtitle "A Century of French Sign Painters' Alphabets" is then in a gold foil below this.
It’s World Book Day in the UK, so here's a reminder that the BLAG Shop is a small independent retailer with many sign and lettering publications that aren't even available in some of those bigger online stores:
https://shop.bl.ag
Pictured are the three newest […]
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Person sat down an painting blue letters on a white box in a studio setting with lots of other boxes around.
Shout out to Francois Morel and Vincent Audoin who get name-checked by Wes Anderson when talking about his Paris installation, ‘The House on Utopia Parkway’.
https://youtu.be/SBKX2SXAp5s?si=y08-Hw8iMeewBNSL&t=314 (opens at the bit about the sign painters)
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A quick 2-day turnaround sign painting for the new retail gallery location. Oil paint on repurposed car wash sign. I still got it! 🦚 #wildernessmuse #gallery #asheville #northcarolina #signpainting
In the background is a scaffold positioned in front of a wall which is being painted with a mural of reproductions of black and white photos and headlined "Eleanor Borg". The focus of the photo is then a person in sunglasses with a huge laughing smile on their face — pure joy.
A great opportunity to learn more about the community murals in The Dalles, Oregon, with folk from the National Neon Sign Museum.
The Dalles Mural Walking Tour, 14 March
www.nationalneonsignmuseum.org/event-details/the-dalles...
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I've just confirmed two new sessions for April's free online BLAG Meet event (https://bl.ag/meet They are:
Nicole Castro and Rafael Hoffmann (https://pintoresdeletras.lojavirtualnuvem.com.br/ bringing us more of their work documenting the sign painters and sign painting traditions from Santa […]
Thank you to @letterformarchive for hosting yesterday’s Salon event with Morgane Côme and yours truly.
Working at incredible speed while we slept, the archive has published the recording online already. All 85 minutes can now be viewed here […]
Crop into an array of colourfully decorated letterforms giving the illusion of dimensionality. To the right of the image is an illustration of the head of a flat sign painter's brush.
In just a few hours I'll be logging on to talk with Morgane Côme about the new @letterformarchive book, Lettres Decoratives.
Join us for this free online event from 11:00 Pacific time / 20:00 Central European time […]
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Support your local sign painter, and if you’re in Ottawa then that can be the lovely Pascal Arpin. She has usefully included a map on her website so that you can easily go check her work for other businesses before hiring her:
https://www.pascalearpin.com/about
It’s a neat idea, which could […]
Sign board with text saying "The Experts" underlined by a picture of a rose and with a large butterfly to the right.
New at bl.ag online, ‘Signs of the Times: The Letterheads in 1981’, in which I tracked down and republished the first ever piece of press for the sign painting movement, exactly 45 years after it appeared in Signs of the Times magazine […]
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We are so pleased with the overwhelming response to our latest book, Lettres Décoratives. Meet the author, Morgane Côme, in conversation with Sam Roberts of Better Letters, on Wed, Feb 25: letterformarchive.org/shop/salon-s... #Lettering #SignPainting #Typography
Sign painter on a ladder painting some large prismatic letters on a wall.
I also profiled the new season of Letter Exchange lectures that started this month. They are held in London with a livestream also available for those unable to attend in person.
https://letterexchange.org/events
Sign painting folk will likely be most […]
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Hand-painted grocery store signs mounted to a series of display boards in a gallery setting. They are predominantly lettered in red on yellow backgrounds with a casual style coming from their ephemeral nature.
I’m gutted I can’t get to São Paulo, Brazil, for the Letras & Filetes group show that’s running there until 5 April:
www.sescsp.org.br/projetos/letras-filetes-...
Photo: Samuel Esteves (https://samuelesteves.com/
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