The book from Letterform Archive celebrates the vivacity of French sign painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Before the age of computers and vinyl printers, sign painters worked by hand to illustrate storefronts, billboards and banners. Sign Painters, a... 'Sign Painters': A Close-Up Focus On An Endangered ...

Lester Carey parks his shopping cart full of paint supplies on the neutral ground on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Claiborne Avenue. Carey, dressed in a red shirt tucked into high-waisted ...

MAZEPPA — They proudly called themselves letterheads or walldogs and consider themselves the vanguard of a return to art in sign painting. About 100 sign painters from across the world met last week ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The couple has a cute dachshund named Dahlia, who enjoys napping on a couch near the front windows of as colorful a storefront business as you are likely to ...

Have you ever taken a moment to look at the signage on windows, doors and walls of local businesses? If you’ve noticed hand painted lettering, it is likely the work of Josh Flohre. He is Dayton’s own ...

Joseph Giampino can’t find any emerald-green paint. Half-pint cans of 1 Shot lettering enamel paint are stacked in every corner of his Maywood Road studio, bursting at the seams alongside tool ...

In the sprawl of Denver, signs are optical forces in storefronts and parking lots, giving rare air to their communities and attracting people in magnetic fashion for all reasons. Nick Miller has been ...