#signwriter — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #signwriter, aggregated by home.social.
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Missed this bit of festive cheer last month: ‘Schoolboy behind the Watten Christmas penguin inspired by signwriter grandad’.
The article includes a lovely 1965 press clipping showing that Alex Paterson (the grandad) was the Scottish apprentices competition held in Glasgow that year.
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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
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The Boyd is Back in Town
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2025/05/the-boyd-is-back-in-town/
Boyd Pianos’ ghost sign on Shaklewell Lane, London E8, revealed again after 13 years’ hibernation.
#BoydPianos #GhostSigns #Ghostsigns #Hackney #London #Palimpsest #Pianos #Preservation #Protection #Reveal #Signwriter #Signwriting #StreetArt #Theatre #UK
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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!
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H. Newman & Sons (Have Removed), Melbourne
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2024/06/h-newman-sons-have-removed-melbourne/
A surviving palimpsest in the centre of Melbourne reveals the legacy of the jeweller and watchmaker Henry Newman. Photo: Sean Reynolds.
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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