Faythe Levine and Sam Macon’s “Sign Painters” is the kind of book you buy as a present for someone else because it looks cool and then can’t part with yourself. The photographs are what draw you in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Wander down any highway as recently as 30 years ago, and you’d be confronted by storefronts, banners and billboards that were all hand painted. Sadly that tradition has declined—but this amazing ...

Installation view of The Pre-Vinylette Society: An International Showcase of Women Sign Painters at Chicago Art Department (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) CHICAGO — In 2012, people ...

Sign painter Josh Flohre, owner of Ink & Hammer, in his studio in Dayton's Davis-Linden building. Flohre has an extensive inspiration collection of antique signs and documents. Sign painter Josh ...

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 ...

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 ...