Sign painting is the craft of painting letteredsigns on buildings, billboards or signboards, for promoting, announcing, or identifying products, services and events. Sign painting artisans are signwriters.
Sign painters create a new sign on the walls of the Figueroa Hotel in Los Angeles, California
Signwriters often learned the craft through apprenticeship or trade school, although many early sign painters were self-taught.[1][2] The Sign Graphics program at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College program is the last remaining sign painting program in the United States.[3]
Skillful manipulation of a lettering brush can take years to develop.[4][5][6]
In the 1980s, with the advent of computer printing on vinyl, traditional hand-lettering faced stiff competition.[7][6] Interest in the craft waned during the 1980s and 90s, but hand-lettering and traditional sign painting have experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent years.[8][9]
The 2012 book and documentary, Sign Painters[4] by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, chronicle the historical changes and current state of the sign painting industry through personal interviews with contemporary sign painters.
Old painted signs which fade but remain visible are known as ghost signs.[10]
Techniques
There are a number of other associated skills and techniques as well, including gold leafing (surface and glass), carving (in various mediums), glue-glass chipping, stencilling, and silk-screening.[citation needed]
Bibliography
Turvey, Lisa (April 2012). "An American Language". Artforum International. 50: 218–9.
Swezy, Tim (February 25, 2014). "One Shot Seen 'Round the World: A Survey of Sign Painting on the Internet (Part of AIGA Raleigh - the oldest and largest professional organization for Design)". AIGA Raleigh. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
Childs, Mark C. (2016). The Zeon files : art and design of historic Route 66 signs. Babcock, Ellen D., 1957-. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN978-0-8263-5603-1. OCLC 944156236.
Auer, Michael (1991). The Preservation of Historic Signs. Washington, D.C: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources, Preservation Assistance.
Jakle, John A. (2004). Signs in America's auto age : signatures of landscape and place. Sculle, Keith A. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. ISBN1-58729-482-6. OCLC 66385186.
^"The Craft of Hand Painted Signs | Craftsmanship Magazine". The Craftsmanship Initiative. 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
^ abBloom, Ester (2016-01-25). "The Revival of America's Hand-Painted-Sign Industry". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
^"The New Sign Painters | Craftsmanship Magazine". The Craftsmanship Initiative. Spring 2017. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
^Studebaker, Bob (28 May 2018). "What's Old Is New: Traditional Sign Painting Is In Demand Again". www.wesa.fm. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^Bloom, Ester (2016-01-25). "The Revival of America's Hand-Painted-Sign Industry". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
^Cianci, Lisa; Schutt, Stefan (2014-01-02). "Keepers of Ghosts: old signs, new media and the age of archival flux". Archives and Manuscripts. 42 (1): 19–32. doi:10.1080/01576895.2014.886514. ISSN 0157-6895.
External links
Article on an exhibition of historical roadside signs in New England
The Letterheads Website – The Keepers of our Craft – Sign Painting is alive and well!
The Original Letterheads – A site maintained by one of the founders of the Letterhead movement
Digitised textbooks:
Sign Writing and Glass Embossing (James Callingham, 1890)
Lettering for Commercial Purposes (William Hugh Gordon, 1918)
A Roman Alphabet and how to use it (Frank Forrest Frederick, 1917)
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