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 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Sean Starr coats his angled Fitch brush in the white, oil-based 1 Shot paint. With a steady hand, he slowly rounds the brush to perfectly line the outside of an uppercase O. The sign reads “MORRISSEY ...

He’s certainly a man that’s passionate about uncovering these symbols of the past, relishing their typographic tales of days gone by. However, it seems he’s not the only one that’s soppy about ...

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 ...

The title of “Sign Painters” tells you exactly what this documentary’s about. Yet it’s also highly misleading. A movie with a title like that — about a subject like that — must be pretty drab, right?

There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. Today, the proliferation of ...

He’s certainly a man that’s passionate about uncovering these symbols of the past, relishing their typographic tales of days gone by. However, it seems he’s not the only one that’s soppy about ...