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Tickets are getting snapped up now.

Get less FOMO and more IOAFS in your life this summer by booking here:

https://ticketsoft.nl/pos/event/9d589773-8cc1-4401-97f0-d6bc74de1e62

#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:

https://www.amsterdamsignpainters.nl/letterheads2026/?ref=bl.ag

#SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering #Letterheads #Amsterdam @IOAFS

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

Here's a report from their 2016 meet for a taste of what to expect in the Netherlands this August:

https://bl.ag/letterheads-2016-greetings-from-amsterdam/

#Letterheads #SignPainting #Signwriting #SignPainters #Lettering #Signwriters #Amsterdam #IOAFS

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.

https://bl.ag/signs-of-the-times-the-letterheads-in-1981/

#Letterheads #IOAFS #SignPainting #SignPainters #SignsOfTheTimes #1981

It’s just over six months until Amsterdam Letterheads 28–30 August so I recommend checking out my report from the last one (https://bl.ag/letterheads-2016-greetings-from-amsterdam/) in case you want to get involved.

In the meantime, I'm hosting my regular online event to coincide with the publication of the latest issue of the magazine. BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 08 is taking place on Saturday, 25 April, with the usual mix of talks, interviews, studio visits and demonstrations.

https://bl.ag/meet.

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#Letterheads #BLAG

Throwback to 2019 when I wrote up my trip to Tokyo Letterheads for Eye Magazine: https://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/letters-from-tokyo

More at bl.ag online here: https://bl.ag/tokyo-letterheads-now-bigger-in-japan/

#Letterheads #IOAFS #SignPainting #Tokyo

One of the stories in BLAG 07 (https://bl.ag/07) comes from Stéphanie Lebon who travelled from Réunion to Tokyo for the gathering there in 2019 (https://bl.ag/tokyo).

She talks about the challenges she faced in getting there, and the impact that attending had on her.

Today she sent me this photo of her contributor copy of the special issue arriving in Réunion, which brought a huge smile to my face 😊.

She's on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosmophanie/

#Réunion #Tokyo #Letterheads #IOAFS

New at bl.ag online, 'The Letterheads Go Large at the 1982 Oklahoma Bash', in which host Mike Jackson reflects on a meet that redefined what a Letterheads could be.

https://bl.ag/the-letterheads-go-large-at-the-1982-oklahoma-bash/

This is the third in a series of bonus content posts connected to the Letterheads special issue of BLAG: https://bl.ag/07

#SignPainting #Lettering #Letterheads #IOAFS

Blagging it for Letterheads 50 at the American Sign Museum last month.

A full report from this historic event should follow this week, but in the meantime, thank you Yao Yao for this photo of me at my booth.

PS. BLAG back issues here: https://bl.ag/backissues

#BLAG #Magazine #Letterheads #SignPainting

My report is in the works, but here's a great write-up of what went down at Letterheads 50 from Vanessa Power:

https://www.signsofpower.com/blog/letterheads-50

#SignPainting #Letterheads #Murals #IOAFS

New at bl.ag online, 'Letterheads Per L'Horta: An Intimate International Meet', with my review of Spain's second such gathering of sign painters, calligraphers, lettering artists, and graphic designers.

https://bl.ag/letterheads-per-lhorta-an-intimate-international-meet/

#SignPainting #Signwriting #Calligraphy #Lettering #GraphicDesign #Almàssera #Valencia #Letterheads #IOAFS

I had much fun coming up with ways to showcase this kind of “Bank Gothic cosplaying as Copperplate Gothic” font.
#fontstruct #letterheads #divertissement

Having a fun day on press with BLAG 07, the Letterheads special: https://bl.ag/07.

It never ceases to feel like magic when those digital files turn into the real thing on paper. This time there's 60% more if it than usual, and I am loving every fresh sheet that emerges.

There's still a way to go until it's all folded, stitched, trimmed, and bound, but the early signs are that this will be my favourite yet.

#SignPainting #Magazine #Letterheads #IOAFS

New at bl.ag online, 'A Golden Opportunity to Learn at the Return to El Dorado', with news of Ghi Sign Service resuming its gilding-themed Letterheads meets:

https://bl.ag/a-golden-opportunity-to-learn-at-the-return-to-el-dorado/

#SignPainting #Gilding #Letterheads #ElDorado

That's BLAG 07 (https://bl.ag/07) despatched to the designers; next stop layouts!

This Letterheads special has taken the pagination up to 128, which could be a failure on my part as editor, or a slight to the movement's fifty years of history, depending on how you frame it.

Either way, it's going to be a visual feast, packed with great people, projects, and stories. Pre-orders remain open until 31 March in the online shop: https://shop.bl.ag.

#SignPainting #Letterheads #IOAFS

For BLAG 07 (https://bl.ag/07), I invited sign painters around the world to translate 'the Letterheads motto' into their language, and paint a panel of this, or its acronym.

25 languages are already in, with at least another 8–9 in the pipeline; mind blown!

PS. If you don't know what 'the motto' is, then listen to Keith from about 49:13 here: https://vimeo.com/93170848

Pictured is the Lockdown Letterheads panel from Gustavo Ferrari.

#IOAFS #Letterheads #SignPainting #SignPainters

Letterheads Valencia is go!

1–4 May

More information (Spanish and tEnglish) and Tickets at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbw8D4EXdAtqmXMu6FqZtpyRLvuwaIa75uC44_vyjXnZ5NHw/viewform?usp=sf_link

If you're Letterheads curious, then have a browse of some of these posts: https://bl.ag/letterheads.

#Letterheads #IOAFS #SignPainting #SignPainters

BARGEPOLE, besides being an object, is also a British expression; a shortened form of 'I wouldn't touch that with a bargepole.'
It means 'no way.'
An example: 'Do you have a Facebook page' and I could answer 'Bargepole.'

For the letterheads, this is inspired by a 1817 Vincent Figgins typeface.

#bargepole #vincentfiggins #letterheads #victorianlettering #ornamentedlettering #goldleaf #signpainter #letteringartist #signpainteruk #jillstrongsigns #jillstrongart #letsescapethemetaverse

Tickets for Letterheads 50 at the American Sign Museum, 20–22 June, go on sale today, Sunday, 2 February, at 09:00 EST. Full details here: https://letterheads50.com/

Letterheads 50 artwork by David Butler.

#SignPainting #Lettering #Letterheads #IOAFS

In my latest column for Signlink magazine, I look at the 'anarchic organisation'/movement that is the Letterheads.

This includes some history, current activities, and my own involvement with the movement that started a decade ago next month.

You can read it in full online here: https://www.signlink.co.uk/archives/SL_FEB_MAR_2024/44/index.html

You can find lots more Letterheads stuff at https://bl.ag/tag/letterheads, and future events are listed at https://bl.ag/eventlistings.

#letterheads #ioafs #signpainting #signwriting

Question for folks with Wikipedia experience: is there a way to request the 'undeletion' of a page if I know it existed but don't know what the former title was?

I have found these guidelines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion

But I don't know how to find the page itself, which was an entry for the informal organisation of sign painters, and sign painting events, known as The Letterheads, eg https://bl.ag/tag/letterheads

Any help/boosts appreciated.

#wikipedia #boost #letterheads #ioafs #signpainting

Archival research reveals some interesting letterheads: one for the Venezia Hotel (1933) in #Natal, BC—“The Best Hotel for Me” due to its barber shop, pool room, & phones available “day and night”—and another for a British Columbia Police Radiogram (1926), with that gorgeous green ink on cheap paper

#archives #histodons #letterheads #VintageAdvertising #advertising #hotels #BritishColumbia #radiogram #ArtDeco

@scotcampbell Mark Oatis is a true legend, and a wonderful person with it.

This is the #banner that he and his wife Rose produced for the #Letterheads meet in London 2018 (https://bl.ag/londoncalling/), pictured here in Tokyo, 2019 (https://bl.ag/tokyo-letterheads-now-bigger-in-japan/).

It reads:

"Letterheads, Keepers of Our Craft, 1975.
Through practise might mastery each student gain.
Every master through life will a student remain."

#WiseWords #craft #signpainting #signwriting #IOAFS

Today I'm sending out my periodic email with a digest of global #signpainting and #lettering events. These are free to receive via https://bl.ag/free.

One of the featured events is the #Letterheads meet in Brussels, which I'm attending (on my birthday!): http://tusseki.com/benelux-letterheads/ (earlybird tickets until 8 August)

If you've never attended a Letterheads event, then you can get a flavour for what happens via some of these reviews: https://bl.ag/tag/letterheads/

#ioafs #signwriting