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I don't usually share these outside of the free mailing list, but I'm breaking from tradition to give this Friday's free online premiere of When Better Letters Met Brian Walker a plug:

https://bl.ag/email/0291bbc9-44b1-4c4a-9685-491a2f74cb27/

#SignPainting #Films #Screenings #Events #Exhibitions #Signwriters #SignPainters #Signwriting

This week, we completed the installation of a new motorised Weinor Topas awning with hood at Silvios Café, located at the Wycombe Rye Lido in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. #FoldingArmAwnings #FullCassetteAwning #MotorisedAwnings #RadiantBlinds #signwriting #weinor #WeinorAwnings

https://www.radiantblinds.co.uk/motorised-weinor-topas-coupled-unit-with-single-cover-buckinghamshire/

San Francisco folk, make your own sign with New Bohemia's Damon Styer at this @letterformarchive workshop series starting 1 November:

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/what-s-your-sign-baby-make-your-own/

#SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering #SanFrancisco

Two square images side by side. On the left is a page from an antique French sign painter's portfolio showing different hand-painted embellishments on four different letters. On the right is a letter E in green on black with mark-up lines and directional arrows used to show the brushstrokes that the letter is formed from.

@paupowpow If you're interested in sign painting, and related tangents, then my site has an RSS feed at https://bl.ag/rss/.

Web posts are distributed here via @sam, while some stuff is published as 'email only', so the mailing list is best for the full experience: https://bl.ag/join.

And, although currently inactive, my Ghostsigns blog has a feed here: https://ghostsigns.co.uk/blog.

#SignPainting #Signwriting #RSS

New(ish) at bl.ag online, 'The Mike Stevens Journal, Volume 1, Number 5', reproducing this issue where he's riffing on brush technique, letter formation, and mahl sticks.

https://bl.ag/the-mike-stevens-journal-volume-1-number-5/

#SignPainting #Lettering #Signwriting #Showcards

Side-by-side illustrations of a downward stroke being painted by a chiselled brush which is rotated as the direction of the stroke moves from down to up.

Oh wise fediverse, can anyone offer any historical context as to why a large signboard such as this would have been dedicated to detailing weather records in the early 1900s?

[Edit: Answer now below in thread.]

#Signwriting #SignPainting #Felixstowe #Weather #AskFedi #YeOldeSignShoppe

Two men in suits and flatcaps standing on a long board resting at each end on the lower rungs of ladders. One is turning to look at the camera while the other is working with a mahl stick and brush to paint lettering on a large wooden sign that is titled “Felixstowe Weather Record 1904” with three columns below recording “Sunshine”, “Bright Sunshine”, and “Rainfall” for different locations.

Wow, back to school bargain corner: 50% off Liane Barker's 'Mastering the Art of Signwriting' online course bundles with coupon code SPRING50 until the end of September.

https://www.masteringtheartofsignwriting.com/category/all-products

With the discount, that's just $85 for the two courses in the Lettering bundle, or $130 for the three in the Foundation Skills bundle.

PS. There's an extended profile of Liane's shop, Barker Signs, here at bl.ag online: https://bl.ag/60-years-on-the-brush-the-barker-signs-story/

#Signwriting #SignPainting #OnlineCourses #Lettering

Graphic with the main lettering reading 'Mastering the Art of Signwriting', while a smaller line at the top says 'Keeping the Craft Alive'.

"Handmade signs will make people feel close and real, and at the same time, each artist will convey their own spirit, depending on the painting technique. I think that is the reason why many people still choose to use handmade billboards instead of electronic billboards."

Quote from Mr. Nguyen Xuan Bich, owner of the Ngoc Bich sign painting shop in Vietname, profiled here:

https://www.vietnam.vn/en/khong-chi-la-muu-sinh

#SignPainting #Signwriting #SignPainters #Signwriters #Vietname

Man sat on a chair painting a large freestanding sign with Vietnamese lettering. Other signs are propped up against the wall behind this in what is a light industrial workshop setting.

Following its premiere at Chats Palace, we are proud to present the first online screening of 'When Better Letters Met Brian Walker'.

Join us at 18:00 London time on Friday, 17 October to celebrate Brian's life and work as a signwriter in Hackney, London.

https://bl.ag/introducing-a-new-better-letters-film/

Tickets are free, but contributions towards the event running costs are appreciated from those that are able to do so: https://bl.ag/tip/.

#SignPainting #ShortFilms #Hackney #London #Films #Signwriting

Portrait of a man posing in front of a sign he is painting on a window. He is holding his sign painting materials in his hands.

Sign written narrowboats on the Macclesfield canal. #narrowboat #signwriting #canal #Congleton #Macclesfield #MacclesfieldCanal

New at bl.ag online, 'The Pre-Vinylettes Podcast and More Burds on the Brush', in which Meredith Kasabian gets deeper into her research for the BLAG 07 (https://bl.ag/07) feature on women, trans, and nonbinary sign painters.

https://bl.ag/the-pre-vinylettes-podcast-and-more-burds-on-the-brush/

#SignPainting #Signwriting #SignPainters #SignPainting #Podcasts

View from the side of a woman working with a mahl stick and fine brush to paint lettering on the back of a piece of glass.

“Value yourself, stay humble, and ask for a deposit before you start work.” — Wise words from Jon May among these profiles of some of the new generation of British signwriters:

https://www.signlink.co.uk/features/on-the-brush-with-the-new-generation-of-british-signwriters/

#Signwriting #Signwriters #SignPainting #SignPainters

New(ish) at bl.ag online, 'Letterheads 50: 28 Days Later', in which I try to make sense of what happened at the American Sign Museum in June through the lens of photographer Natalie Grilli.

https://bl.ag/letterheads-50-28-days-later/

See if you can find me in this huge group shot that Natalie stitched together after shooting a bunch of pictures from up a ladder...

#SignPainting #Letterheads #SignPainters #Signwriting #Signwriters #Lettering #Craft #AmericanSignMuseum

Group photo with hundreds of people in it. They are in a museum/gallery setting which is filled with old signs, the most prominent of which is the IOKA theatre marquee with its neon letters on top and the readerboard below that says "Welcome Letterheads".

I've just posted an update to the Kickstarter for reprinting the Coast Manual of Lettering and Designs. It closes this week, so please back and/or boost to help us to the finish line...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coastmanual/the-coast-manual-of-lettering-and-designs/posts/4450111

#SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering #GraphicDesign #Layout #RareBooks #Kickstarter

I'm getting very excited about the premiere of our short film, 'When Better Letters Met Brian Walker'.

For those that we can, we hope you'll join us for an informal evening celebrating Brian's life and work as a signwriter.

Tue, 29 July

6:30pm for a 7pm start

Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, E9 6DF

Please find further details at https://bl.ag/brian/

And tell your friends!

#SignPainting #Signwriting #SignPainters #Signwriters #ChatsPalace #Hackney #Homerton #Clapton #London

Not my typical style of typography, tools or setting. Doing a good deed for the village church.

#SignWriting #HandLettering #Typography #VillageLife #DoingMyBitForTheAfterlifeJustInCase

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

Invitation in the style of a cinema ticket. It reads: "You are invited to a special screening of a short film, 'When Better Letters Met Brian Walker'. Tue, 29 July. Time: 6:30pm–8pm. Free admission. Chats Palace, 42–44 Brooksby's Walk, London E9 6DF." On the stub is the BLAG logotype from the Better Letters Magazine masthead.

I'm consolidating my accounts so please follow along with @blag (more active now) and/or @sam (likely to be more active in the future) for all things #Ghostsigns #SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering and tangents.

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

#signwriting

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