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 ...
NEW ORLEANS -- You may not know who Lester Carey was, but you know his work. Carey passed away over the weekend, but his art lives on in signs all over New Orleans. He began making hand-lettered signs ...
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 ...
How to make hand lettered signs From bridal showers, to brithday parties and even home decor, hand lettered signs are a hit. Megan Julian, Founder & Lead Planner of Julian Events shows us how it is ...
The man behind many of Chicago's most recognizable hand-painted signs doesn't call his trade a job. Ches Perry says his custom-made artworks are “just a hobby,” even after more than 45 years designing ...
Toronto is filled with nostalgia-inducing hand-lettered signs. And one local artist is responsible for lots of them. Rcade Wizard, or Andrew Kidder, is a full-time sign painter. He uses a variety of ...
Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...
A new exhibit, “The Traditional Art of Sign Painting,” has taken the stage at the Mariner Theater for the month of October. The exhibit, which kicked off on Oct. 2, features old-school hand-lettered ...
Last fall, I went on a reporting road trip through the American South. Eating was not the main purpose of the trip, but the need to find food along the road between North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, ...
You've likely seen Pascale Arpin's artwork around Ottawa, and if it's working, it's helped guide you to the curbside pickup spot or take-out window of a local business. Arpin is one of only a handful ...