#signpainters — Public Fediverse posts
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New at bl.ag online (@sam), ‘The Elusive Senegalese Sign Painter and a Lost Mural Artwork’ which finds a music and film producer trying to track down their sign painting hero in Dakar for a special commission.
https://bl.ag/the-elusive-senegalese-sign-painter-and-a-lost-mural-artwork/
PS. Off the back of this story I’ve been working my way through the Baaba Maal back catalogue, so if you’re on Qobuz you can find him here: https://open.qobuz.com/artist/61708
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New at bl.ag online, ‘Documenting the Signs and Sign Painters of Bursa, Turkey’, with @muraterturk sharing YazıBursa, a living digital archive of Bursa’s hand-painted signs and vernacular lettering.
https://bl.ag/documenting-the-signs-and-sign-painters-of-bursa-turkey/
#SignPainting #SignPainters #Archives #DigitalArchives #Bursa #Turkey #Lettering
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RE: https://typo.social/@typographica/117058351920948613
Can anyone help with reaching out to Sam Moses?
@typographica shared this instagram piece and I've contacted both the producer of that and Sam's own profile, but with no reply.
There is a Coney Island connection, so that's my next port of call after finding this little profile and audio interview with him: https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/oral-history-archive/sam-moses
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New-to-me, from Blag: Documenting the Signs and Sign Painters of Bursa, Turkey. “In last week’s ‘BLAG 09 Digital Companion’ I mentioned that there was more to come from Murat Ertürk and his ongoing work documentating the hand-painted signs and sign painters from Bursa, Northwest Turkey. Here he introduces the digital archive, YazıBursa (The Lettering of Bursa), that he has developed […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/16/new-to-me-from-blag-documenting-the-signs-and-sign-painters-of-bursa-turkey/ -
YazıBursa
“… an urban memory archive by documenting the nameplates, shop signs, glass and wall #Lettering that make up the city’s #Typographic heritage, along with the local #SignPainters who made them.”
https://www.yazibursa.com/?lang=en
👆️ via @blag
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YazıBursa - Documenting the #Signs and #SignPainters of #Bursa, #Turkey.
“… a living digital archive of Bursa’s hand-painted signs and vernacular lettering.”
https://bl.ag/documenting-the-signs-and-sign-painters-of-bursa-turkey/
👆️ via @blag
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Ye Olde Sign Shoppe: Seelander and Swanson, Chicago, courtesy of SignCraft.
https://signcraft.com/articles/2024/10/seelander-and-swanson-changed-the-course-of-sign-design/
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I am deeply saddened to hear that Norma Jeanne Maloney (Red Rider Studios) is nearing the end of her life. Perhaps most well known for her memorable appearance in Sign Painters, she has also been a teacher and mentor to many of today's women sign painters.
Her family have set up a Gofundme to help with the things she needs as she prepares to leave this world: https://gofund.me/6fcbc761d. I hope that you can give generously.
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By pure coincidence, today was also the day this video from BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 05 went live on @sam so you can get a heavy dose of Noel and his work there too:
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Opening a Shop with Bungo Sign Co.
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Ross F. George at Letterform Archive
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I’m Only a Fuckin’ Sign Painter with Bob Dewhurst
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Secret Santa with Tozer Signs
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The Fairground Painters with Amy Goodwin
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In Conversation with Elaine Wallis
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In Conversation with Derek Mcdonald
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Inside Jay Smith’s Studio (and Bookshelf)
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When Better Letters Met Josef Samuel
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One for Spanish readers, or just enjoy the pictures:
‘Entrevista Ales Santos: «El trabajo manual me ha llevado a querer trabajar más con las manos y menos con la pantalla»’ (interview with Ales Santos: “Manual work makes me want to do more with my hands and less on the screen”)
https://www.rayitasazules.com/entrevista-ales-santos-artesano-del-diseno/
Ales’ website can be found at https://www.alessantos.es and the photo here is by Donna Salama at https://donnasalama.com.
#SignPainting #SignPainters #Rotulistas #Rotulismo RayitasAzules
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New at bl.ag online, ‘What I Do With (Sign Painters’) Stickers’, with a look inside my album of over 400 stickers collected since about 2019:
https://bl.ag/what-i-do-with-sign-painters-stickers/
Look out for cameos from @allthingsletters @eWalthert @admin @FrancoisTusseki
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Well, this is tantalising...
"In 2018, two art school students, Alessandro Latela and Gianluca Ciancaglini, published the first formal study of Mr. De Stefano and the numeraio tradition ... A third designer, Emilio La Mura, created a standardized, computer-made font named Pasquale in homage to the numeraio — a gesture that was 'misunderstood', Mr. Latela said. Mr. De Stefano's family contested the book and the font, fearing that they would be mistaken for his own work, and the projects were pulled from distribution."
Taken from the (paywalled) article here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/arts/design/naples-italy-painter.html
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New at bl.ag online, ‘William Gilpin: Signwriter of Ulverston’, with a reproduction of Tony Lewery’s 2016 article describing one man’s contribution to the character of a Cumbrian town.
https://bl.ag/william-gilpin-signwriter-of-ulverston/
With thanks to Tony Lewery and Forum editor John Neilson for their kind permission to share this wonderful piece with BLAG readers. Forum 31 with the original is available in the Letter Exchange shop:
https://letterexchange.org/shop/forum-journal/forum-31
#SignPainting #Signwriting #Ulverston #Cumbria #SignPainters #Signwriters
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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
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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
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2. ‘Women in Sign Painting: Burds of the Brush, One Year On’ by Rachel E Millar (https://rachelemillar.com/) in BLAG 03 (https://bl.ag/03).
This piece is also available online here: https://bl.ag/women-in-sign-painting-burds-of-the-brush/.
Plus there are a few more Burds features and articles here: https://bl.ag/search/?query=burds
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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 Meredith Kasabian (https://www.meredithkasabian.com) in BLAG 07, the Letterheads special (https://bl.ag/07).
Meredith's original audio interviews are available at: https://bl.ag/the-pre-vinylettes-podcast-and-more-burds-on-the-brush/.
#SignPainting #SignPainters #IWD #IWD2026
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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 only be improved by adding images of the signs directly to the map in case it’s not the weather for walking the streets sign spotting.
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Just got my hands on the charming ‘Sign Dogs’ zine from Sarah Apple, with all proceeds going to a good canine cause: https://luckysigns.square.site/product/sign-dog-zine/5GEJUYFW2DBUVFJNZXAWPUHW
I’m planning to include this tribute to sign painters and their dogs in the ‘Reader’s Digest’ section of BLAG 09, coming to members in the summer.
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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
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I’m gutted I can’t get to São Paulo, Brazil, for the Letras & Filetes group show that’s running there until 5 April:
https://www.sescsp.org.br/projetos/letras-filetes-memoria-afetiva-e-latinidades/
Photo: Samuel Esteves (https://samuelesteves.com/).
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