Production

These pictorial panels depicting the products and services on what is now The Old Dairy on Stoud Green Road have always intrigued me, and ahead of next week’s talk at the North London Lettering Association I thought I should carry out a little research. The […]

Sgraffito and the Old Dairy at Crouch Hill

This entry was posted in Sign Making and tagged Barcelona Crouch Hill Dairy Friern Manor Dairy Company Hornsey London N4 Production Scraffito Sgraffito Spain Technique The Old Dairy UK on January 12, 2018 by Sam Roberts

Born and Raised by David A Smith and John Mayer — This has left me speechless. Sublime. Ridiculous. Unbelievable. Thank you to David, John and Danny for bringing the story of this piece of work to life through film. An incredible follow up to the last one.

Born and Raised from David A Smith, John Mayer and ...

This entry was posted in Sign Folk Sign Making Signs in Media and tagged Born and Raised Craft Danny Cooke David A. Smith Film Gilding John Mayer Lettering Production Signwriter UK Video on May 19, 2013 by Sam Roberts

A hand painted sign by Dan Madsen of Dusty Signs — Lovely video about Dusty Signs‘ Dan Madsen, picked up on Typedeck where there is more information and a gallery of Dan’s images. Dan also showcases his work on Flickr and there is a detailed interview with him on the Type Archive site.

Dusty Signs doing it the old way in Minneapolis, Minnesota

This entry was posted in Painted Lettering and tagged Dan Madsen Minneapolis Minnesota People Production Signwriter USA Video on July 14, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Berchowitz faux ghostsign from British Columbia by John Schrantz — Sometimes hand painted signs on buildings are created to look old and weathered intentionally. The example pictured (original photo on Flickr) was produced in 2003 for the Disney film, ‘Miracle’. (Does anyone have a clip showing where and how it features in the film?) Another […]

Faux ghostsigns

This entry was posted in Inspired by Signs Signs in Media Signs of Note and tagged Art Canada Colossal Media Dewars Disney Emmanuel Nouaillier Faux Film France It's All Art Jack Daniel's Jerry Johnson Keith Hampton Production Rick Janzen Streamline Studios UK USA on July 1, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Photos: Rick Janzen This photo essay shows the various stages in recreating the effect of a ghostsign using water-based paints (the rest of the blog is worth checking out too, especially this post and this one). This appears to be a different technique to that […]

Rick Janzen of Streamline Studios creates a ‘ghostsign’ from scratch

This entry was posted in Individual Signs Photo Essays Related Work and tagged Faux Ghostsigns Production Rick Janzen Streamline Studios Swinton Swinton's on March 11, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Videos of Peter Hardwicke painting the letters ‘N’ and ‘A’ from the Tracy Emin International shop in Spitalfields, London. Steady hand!

Peter Hardwicke and Tracy Emin International

This entry was posted in Painted Lettering and tagged People Production Signwriter on December 10, 2011 by Sam Roberts

Hand Painted Type alphabet by Umesh — Perhaps being in Cambodia has sensitised me to the world of Ghostsigns beyond my home shores. Or maybe awareness of the project has encouraged those from around the world to make contact. Whatever it is, I thought it was time for a round-up of what’s […]

Ghostsigns World Tour

This entry was posted in Sign Destinations Signs of Note and tagged Books Canada Cigarettes Colossal Media Contemporary Issues Delhi Event France Frank Jump Hague HandPaintedType India Lettering Marc Combier Modern Brickads Montreal Murals Netherlands New York Omega Oil People Production Restoration Signwriter Street Art Tobacco Tours Turret Umesh USA Van Gogh Video Worldwide on July 21, 2011 by Sam Roberts

Signboard for Northern Star Creative — Some photos and film from a visit to Charlton to see Chris of Northern Star Creative at work on a sign for a garage. It was great to see him in action and to hear some of his stories from when he used to run […]

Charlton Signwriting

This entry was posted in Sign Folk Sign Making and tagged Contemporary Issues London People Production Signwriter on December 4, 2009 by Sam Roberts

Ritual Project Stella Artois Close Up — The project is into its final few days and there are some interesting snippets of the painters at work, both close up and in time lapse. Here are a few highlights, more here and here. I’d personally like to see some longer clips with perhaps […]

Ritual Project Update

This entry was posted in Individual Signs Related Work and tagged Colossal Media Contemporary Issues London Modern Brickads New York Production Ritual Project Signwriter UK USA Video on November 26, 2009 by Sam Roberts

Stella Artois and Colossal Media are collaborating in New York to use hand painted advertising over 21 days to demonstrate the ‘ritual’ of pouring a glass of Stella. This ritual involves nine steps and by day 11 they’re on step three, mainly due to adverse […]

The Ritual Project

This entry was posted in Individual Signs Related Work and tagged Colossal Media Contemporary Issues London Modern Brickads New York Production Ritual Project Signwriter UK USA Video on November 18, 2009 by Sam Roberts

I just came across this interesting slideshow which was linked from an excellent set of photos from Montana (currently six pages worth). It is a series of photos depicting the restoration of some Renaissance Graffito on the wall of a Tuscan villa. Graffito is obviously […]

Renaissance Graffito

This entry was posted in Photo Essays Related Work and tagged Ancient Italy Production Related and Random Restoration on January 12, 2008 by Sam Roberts

Men at work on hand painted advertising for Dewars Whisky in New York — This is a great short film made by the team at Collosal Media and gives a real insight into some of the techniques used to produce brickads in particular it includes footage of the ‘pouncebag’ method of transferring the outline design onto the wall. The campaign […]

Collosal Media Live

This entry was posted in Related Work and tagged Colossal Media Modern Brickads Production Video on October 18, 2007 by Sam Roberts

nicknormal has taken a great series of shots in New York of Colossal Media producing their latest creation for the new Grand Theft Auto (GTA) game. A few are below but you can see them all in a slideshow giving a real sense of the […]

Brickads Live (GTA)

This entry was posted in Individual Signs Photo Essays Related Work and tagged Colossal Media Modern Brickads New York Production USA on October 16, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Painting Wall-Ads Originally uploaded by .Hessam In a flurry of discoveries on the painting of Modern Brickads I came across this from .Hessam. It again shows an intricate sign being produced and you can see the artist’s miniture design sheet perched against the wall in […]

Ghost Signs Live (India?)

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged India Modern Brickads Production Worldwide on July 18, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Colossal Media Painting a Brickad for Dewars in New York — Just came across this on Erniesmallz blog. It’s the team from Colossal Media at work on a creation for Dewars It’s great to see the painting live at such close range, someone has to film this next time! They are using very fine brushes to […]

Ghost Signs Live (Dewars)

This entry was posted in Individual Signs Related Work and tagged Colossal Media Modern Brickads New York Production USA on July 17, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Walldogs painting sign on wall for Barneys New York — Browsing Frank Jump‘s blog from USA I came across this great photo by Frank of some sign writer’s (Wall Dogs in USA) putting the finishing touches to a massive brickad. This is clearly for a current business (there’s a web address featured) and is part […]

Ghost Signs Live

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Modern Brickads Production USA on July 16, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Schlitz Beer USA — Click here for some interesting notes on the production of Ghost Signs from the USA Museum of Beer Brewing. It implies that the sign writers (or Wall Dogs in USA) used sheets of paper to create a dotted chalk outline on the wall which they […]

Production Process

This entry was posted in Sign Making and tagged Alcohol Beer Museum of Beer Brewing Production Research Schlitz USA on June 27, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Rabbits from the Thetford Warrens — This picture was sent to me by my uncle who lives in Norwich. I saw it for myself when I visited recently. It is advertising the rabbit warrens at Thetford and is part of a series of similar signs on this building between the windows […]

Thetford Warrens

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Food Meat Norfolk Norwich Production Rabbit Research Thetford Warrens UK on June 23, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Hovis Van Painting Directions — Also on my visit to HAT I found this nice example of how big companies got the consistency of style across the country. It is some directions issued by Hovis as to how the back of a bread van should be painted. In a 1952 […]

Hovis Process

This entry was posted in Sign Making and tagged Bread Food HAT Hovis Painters guide Production Research Signwriting on June 18, 2007 by Sam Roberts