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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Santiago Sánchez brushes red paint along the edge of gold letters, creating a 3-D effect on the black tin sign he's painting. He pauses to pour red "One Shot" paint into the bottom half of a ...

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 ...

At Borromini, perched on a busy Rittenhouse corner, hand-painted flourishes help situate the trattoria’s pan-Italian menu ...

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 ...

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 ...