#signpainter — Public Fediverse posts

Ich suche für ein Museum im Großraum #München eine:n #Schriftenmaler/in, #SignPainter, Kalligraf/in, der/die Texte in Antiqua von Hand auf Wände schreiben kann.
Hat jemand eine Empfehlung?

A lovely short video about Gregg of Cactus Sign Painting in Macclefield. (In your wheelhouse @blag if you’ve not come across this already!)

https://youtube.com/shorts/Q3nJDrhMWmQ?si=52AHIgphoOS4z8CE

#signpainting #signpainter

London folk, you are invited to the world premiere of 'When Better Letters Met Brian Walker' next Tuesday, 29 July.

Find the full listing at https://bl.ag/brian and please pass along details of this free event to friends and family.

#SignPainting #SignPainter #Signwriting #Signwriter #ShortFilm #Hackney #London #Boost #BoostsAppreciated

Thank you to everyone that has already backed this Kickstarter to get signwriter Brian Walker's story told in a short biopic.

You can back the project from as little as £1 here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samroberts/when-better-letters-met-brian-walker-a-short-biopic?ref=9wh6qg

Please boost/repost, and tell your friends!

#Signwriter #SignPainter #Clapton #Hackney

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

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

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

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

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

@carolski Shout out to the Schildermalermuseum (Sign Painting Museum) in Vienna:
https://www.schildermalermuseum.at/index-en.html

We made a short film about its founder Josef Samuel: https://bl.ag/josef

#SignPainting #SignPainter #museum #Vienna

@onpaperwings Fun fact: Woody Guthrie also painted signs.

Here's one of his from the 1960s in Pampa, Texas, as featured in this article about celebrity sign painters: https://bl.ag/celebrity-signwriters-past-present/

Photo courtesy of the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives, and Woody Guthrie Folk Music Centre.

#WoodyGuthrie #SignPainter #SignPainting

@simplebits @exkclamation Here's Painter Kafeel's interpretation for the 'Wise Words' segment in BLAG 02 (https://bl.ag/02).

Learn more about Kafeel and his work at https://bl.ag/kafeel.

#SignPainting #SignPainter #WiseaWords

@aarbrk Had to look up Clownbank, and here's their bio: https://www.clownbankstudio.com/biography

#SignPainting #SignPainter #MuralArtist #SantaCruz

Friends/followers, please welcome sign painter, artist, and all-round top person Jill Strong to the fediverse. Give her a follow here: https://mastodon.art/@jill_strong

You can check out Jill's work at https://www.jillstrong.com, and take a look around her home studio at https://bl.ag/watch-the-free-recordings-from-blag-meet-inside-issue-03/.

Jill is also BLAG's science correspondent, and wrote a brilliant online article all about lead in paints: https://bl.ag/lead.

Here's to more sign painters making the leap!

#FollowFriday #SignPainter #artist

What are your favourite books about British pub signs? I'm working on a very special bl.ag online piece and want to include some recommended reading.

Pictured is renowned pub sign painter Stanley Chew from The English Pub by Andy Whipple and Rob Anderson.

#signs #pubs #inns #SignPainting #AskFedi #SignPainter

Thank you to everyone that has contributed to this story: Brennen Bechtol, @letterformarchive and Mr Matt.

See all the pictures, and learn as much as there is to know about our mystery sign painter at https://bl.ag/cuba

#SignPainter #SignPainting #lettering #Cuba

Yesterday I published the story and the photos at https://bl.ag/cuba. This prompted another BLAG member, Mr Matt, to get in touch with four more images that he'd downloaded from the original eBay listings.

These had been sold by the time @letterformarchive was able to start buying, and it's not clear if there may have been others that went even earlier...

#SignPainter #SignPainting #Cuba

My original correspondent, Brennen Bechtol, had already bought one of the prints, but then donated this to @letterformarchive in order to complete the set.

Or so we thought...

https://bl.ag/cuba

Photo reproduced with kind permission of Letterform Archive.

#SignPainting #SignPainter #Cuba

"There are some epic photos of a sign painter in 50s Cuba on eBay" was the message I received from BLAG member Brennen Bechtol back in April. This was followed by some pictures and a link to the eBay listings.

Here's a short thread of what happened next, which is documented in more detail at https://bl.ag/cuba.

Photo reproduced with kind permission of Letterform Archive.

#SignPainter #SignPainting #Cuba #eBay

@letterformarchive We're live at https://bl.ag/a-mystery-sign-painter-from-1950s-cuba/

What a lovely chain of events; thank you team Letterform Archive!

#SignPainting #SignPainter #Cuba #1950s

“Her cafe was my guinea pig — my first branding project”

That’s Michelle, aka All Things Meng, talking about working for her mum’s cafe in this San Francisco Chronicle article:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/mong-thu-cafe-vietnamese-19503917.php

Which brought me to this photo essay and short film about replacing the gilded sign on the front door:

https://www.bayareabyhand.com/story-posts/signs-by-meng-21

Michelle also featured in the 'Getting Into It' article on bl.ag earlier this year: https://bl.ag/intoit

#SignPainter #SignPainting #SanFrancisco

New at bl.ag online, 'Ye Olde Sign Shoppe: George Biles, King of Signwriters': https://bl.ag/biles

Learn about the diverse and prolific output of sign painter George Biles, and a retrospective exhibition in Bridport, Dorset, this summer.

Photo courtesy of Ken Allen's George Biles photo album.

#SignPainter #signwriter #SignPainting #calligraphy #lettering #art #artist #DecorativeArt #pictorial #bridport #dorset

Today I learned that the English Martyrs Catholic Church in Worthing is home to a scale replica of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

It was painted at 2/3 scale over a period of 5.5 years by local sign painter Gary Bevans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Martyrs%27_Catholic_Church,_Goring-by-Sea

Remarkable.

#SistineChapel #Worthing #SignPainter #fresco

@BerlinLetters Was very happy to have Pascale's story among those featured here: https://bl.ag/getting-into-it-sign-painters-stories-around-the-world/

#SignPainter #SignPainting

@nminow @fembot Is this piece in it? Perhaps not if it's only the MAD stuff?

Saturday Evening Post, February 9th, 1935.

#SignPainter #SignPainting #NormanRockwell #art #illustration #magazine

Thank you @amsterdam for sharing this video with me, 'L'ultimo numeraro di Napoli': https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dBj1aeTKl2M

The film can also be viewed on the fanpage.it website here: https://www.fanpage.it/napoli/pasquale-lultimo-numeraro-di-napoli-chi-e-lartista-dei-prezzi-esposti-nei-mercati/

#SignPainter #SignPainting #Napoli #showcards #tickets #market

'George Biles: King of Signwriters' is an exhibition across multiple venues in Bridport, Dorset, 1–29 August.

https://www.bridport-tc.gov.uk/george-biles-lottery-project/

This will be quite special, and in the coming weeks, I'll publish a piece at https://bl.ag online.

I'll be making a day of it on Friday, 23 August, so if you'd be interested in joining me then send me a message, or email [email protected] to coordinate.

#Bridport #Dorset #SignPainting #signwriting #SignPainter #signwriter #exhibition

Just in from the Canary Islands, Jaime Medina shares a collection of hand-painted signs from the hand of Ernesto G. in Agüimes, Gran Canaria.

https://insulasigna.org/ernesto-g-triunfa-en-aguimes/

Each of these characteristic pictorial creations is signed by Ernesto, with each one showing owners and customers from bars and restaurants in the town.

#SignPainting #CanaryIslands #Agüimes #GranCanaria #SignPainter

Just in from the Canary Islands, Jaime Medina shares a collection of hand-painted signs from the hand of Ernesto G. in Agüimes, Gran Canaria.

https://insulasigna.org/ernesto-g-triunfa-en-aguimes/

Each of these characteristic pictorial creations is signed by Ernesto, with each one showing owners and customers from bars and restaurants in the town.

#SignPainting #CanaryIslands #Agüimes #GranCanaria #SignPainter

Just in from the Canary Islands, Jaime Medina shares a collection of hand-painted signs from the hand of Ernesto G. in Agüimes, Gran Canaria.

https://insulasigna.org/ernesto-g-triunfa-en-aguimes/

Each of these characteristic pictorial creations is signed by Ernesto, with each one showing owners and customers from bars and restaurants in the town.

#SignPainting #CanaryIslands #Agüimes #GranCanaria #SignPainter

Just in from the Canary Islands, Jaime Medina shares a collection of hand-painted signs from the hand of Ernesto G. in Agüimes, Gran Canaria.

https://insulasigna.org/ernesto-g-triunfa-en-aguimes/

Each of these characteristic pictorial creations is signed by Ernesto, with each one showing owners and customers from bars and restaurants in the town.

#SignPainting #CanaryIslands #Agüimes #GranCanaria #SignPainter

Just in from the Canary Islands, Jaime Medina shares a collection of hand-painted signs from the hand of Ernesto G. in Agüimes, Gran Canaria.

https://insulasigna.org/ernesto-g-triunfa-en-aguimes/

Each of these characteristic pictorial creations is signed by Ernesto, with each one showing owners and customers from bars and restaurants in the town.

#SignPainting #CanaryIslands #Agüimes #GranCanaria #SignPainter

Today I'm hosting this event with Dr Amy Goodwin, sharing the stories, and the work, of the fairground painters. It is free and online, with more details at https://bl.ag/events.

The direct link to book a ticket (zoom account required) is here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GtNBNCBZQoG1OrV5AvnMWg#/registration

I hope you can join us and, if not, then I am fairly sure I'll be able to share a recording afterwards, at Amy's discretion.

#SignPainting #FredFowle #fair #fairground #DecorativeArt #art #artist #SignPainter #lettering

Piece profiling recently deceased Hull sign painter Alan Stutt, alongside a gallery of his work in the city.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/gallery/signs-you-see-over-hull-9240161

#SignPainter #Signwriter #Hull

My friend, sign painter, and all-round top man Shawn at Providence Painted Signs has had a tragic accident putting him out of work for the foreseeable future.

I would appreciate any boosts that can help spread this Gofundme to support him during his recovery/rehabilitation. And of course donate whatever you can.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-local-artists-healing

#boost #SignPainter #signwriter

Nice extended profile of Justin Lim, a sign painter in Fort Wayne, IN:

https://www.inputfortwayne.com/features/JustinLim-profile.aspx

“I would say surround yourself with other artists, I mean that's the best way to grow and learn different things. Plus, it's just inspiring to see other people's shops other people's studios, and other people's artwork. That kind of thing it just keeps you growing so you don't get stagnant, it humbles you to  see someone doing like amazing stuff.”

#SignPainter #SignPainting #Signwriter #Signwriting

Anyone know anything of Frank McComb and his sign shop? It is shown here on 9th St, Pittsburgh, about 90 ft north of Penn Ave, looking north.

The photo is from 1909, so the firm was contemporary to the H.H. Seiferth company recently profiled at https://bl.ag/seiferth.

Picture courtesy of the Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901-2000, housed at the University of Pittsburgh digital library.

#signpainter #signwriter #signs #pittsburgh

Save the date: For all of August, there will be an exhibition in Bridport, Dorset, about the life and work of George Biles, a prolific signwriter, decorator, and scenic painter whose career spanned nearly 70 years.

A collection of his Palmers Brewery pub signs have survived, and will be displayed alongside drawings, and more.

I'll post more in the future, but for now, there is an extract from a 1932 article about Biles in the alt text.

#signpainter #signwriter #signpainting #bridport #dorset

My latest column for Signlink is a tribute to Dapper Signs' James Cooper (RIP). It can be read online from page 32 here: https://www.signlink.co.uk/archives/SLOctNov2023/index.html

They then decided to fill the cover with his work 😍

#signpainting #signpainter #signwriter #signwriting

@gaelchlo Are you familiar with the work of Kevin Freeney?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gentlemanofletters/albums

He is one of the #signwriters profiled in the #signwriting chapter of Dublin's Vanishing Craftsman by Kevin Corrigan Kearns.

https://archive.org/details/dublinsvanishing00kear

(Only learned writing this reply that @internetarchive has the book in their collection.)

#signwriter #signpainter #signpainters #signpainting

New at https://bl.ag/chuck: 'Meet Chuck Keiger, Sam Caldwell's Cincinnati Walldog'.

This latest post at bl.ag online tells the story of the man that painted the giant Sam Caldwell sign (now ghost sign) in Cincinnati. The piece was written by Chuck's son, and originally appeared in Cincinnati Magazine.

#signpainting #signwriting #cincinnati #ohio #signpainter #signwriter #walldog