Traditional sign painting requires a unique level of physical discipline. When you are working without the safety net of a ...

Before he sets to work, before the first of what will be a thousand brushstrokes, each one fluid and articulated and occupying the space between artwork and industry, the sign painter wants you to ...

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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 ...

At Borromini, perched on a busy Rittenhouse corner, hand-painted flourishes help situate the trattoria’s pan-Italian menu within Philadelphia’s buzzy food scene. Gibbs Connors painted the lettering on ...

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Jeff Williams, traditional sign painter. “Right as I got out of high school, I had a job ...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) - A liberal amount of gray is flecked in the beard and hair of Norman Randall, 54. It’s not from the paint the Cheyenne man is applying to signs at the AVA Community Art Center in ...

In an increasingly digital world, where design software can turn anyone into an instant Leonardo da Vinci, it’s easy to forget that signs were once lettered by hand using sable brushes, mineral ...

This story starts with an old suitcase. And a sign painter who had, in his own words, "the audacity to try." Koy Suntichotinun, who goes by Koy Sun, wanted to do something different and make a change, ...

ST. FRANCIS - Before signs were designed on computers and made with vinyl letters, they were created by sign painters like Jeff Williams, owner of The King of Paint in St. Francis. "Everything was ...