Bacon worked in graffiti and airbrushing before progressing to sign painting. He apprenticed under a friend, hand-painting ...

We are –TRADITIONAL HAND PAINTED SIGN MAKERS– we capitalize that because it is the difference between what we do and what you get from the ‘other guys’. We do Pinstriping and Hand Painted Lettering ...

Stuck in the middle of an advertising world dominated by banner ads and pop-ups, it’s hard to image a time when most advertisements were hand painted on brick walls and shop windows. Thirty years ago, ...

For 73 years, Rey Giese painted the Valley of Heart’s Delight in letters, numbers and company logos. A skilled artisan whose craft was earned by years of apprenticeship, working as a journeyman and ...

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 ...

The first sign that the writing was on the wall for sign writing came in the 1980s when vinyl cutting first made an appearance and craft began to make way for computers. The 90s proved even more ...

Outside of a residential building on North Miro Street in New Orleans’ Treme neighborhood, there is a thin, white pole about six feet high. At the top of the pole is the frame for a two-part sign; the ...

There were once countless thousands of such painters across India, working by hand to complete unique, vibrant designs for everything from juice stands to tailor's shops and butcher's stalls. Nowadays ...