Graduates of our sign painting class showing off their chops.
Sign painting ladies at our evening sign class. Day #2 gothic letters
I remember, back when I was a wee apprentice, my master introducing the leap from single-stroke Gothics and casuals to serifed Roman letters, by asking me to pencil draw an alphabet according to classic Trajan rules, as presented in Helm Wotzkow’s The Art of Hand Lettering. I don’t know if that’d be an appropriate exercise for the 201 level of our brush lettering workshops, since they’re more about brush work than letter forms… Any opinions?
Trajan Pro: Typography class chalk board
(via littlepennydreadful)
Sign painting students hard at work, practicing casual alphabets.
“To beer or not to beer”, in it’s finished state.
Ken logo’d up a ball court in San Jose today.
Ken and Corinne working on a pseudo-billboard for Slavs & Tatars’ piece in an upcoming art show at CCA’s Wattis gallery. We’re told it says, “to beer or not to beer”, in Arabic.
New Bohemia Signs had an exciting workshop at TYPO conference in SF
Another gilded sign by @nbsigns (Taken with instagram)
Surface gilding process: brush on size, wait for the whistle tack, apply gold leaf, brush off excess, & you’re done!
Sign and map painted at SFO for Greetings From SF. Try and spot it next time you’re rushing to your flight!
Damon gilding a sign for Gioia Pizzeria
A photo Scott just happened across, from Tom Doyle’s interview with Foo Fighters in the June 2011 issue of Sound On Sound magazine, shows a sign we designed and painted, apparently has come to live in Dave Grohl’s garage.
Illustration, in progress, of a neon sign, with gold leaf in lieu of neon. Background will be filled with white gold, to mimic antique mirror.
Charles C. Zoller, Foolish House, Ontario Beach Park in 1910
This isn’t exactly «Sign Shop Diary» material, but it’s inspiring me to get our storefront redecorated, finally.
