Secret Castle Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 This thread is awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eattingsnowflakes Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 good shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dirty Art Magazine Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 New Boehemia Signs out of SF.. these dudes are some of the best around http://www.newbohemiasigns.com/portfolio.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Something really special about hand-painted signs. Here's some more recent ones I've shot: Los Angeles, CA Fresno, CA Fresno, CA San Bernardino, CA San Bernardino, CA Colton, CA Rialto, CA Crestline, CA Las Vegas, NV Fontana, CA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 frank liquor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 gotta get some indian hand painted signs in here will post some more when I get home here's a quick few flickr jacks while it's quiet at work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 sorry these are some crappy ones actually if I've missed the point of the thread let me know 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Screw Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 these are from Harare, in Zimbabwe. Africa's got some amazing hand painted signs. Might post more later if people are feeling it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qsysue Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Keep em coming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 definitely more from india and africa. cheap cheap rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootybooty Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 This is the best thread on this website as of right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walid Jumblat Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Sydney used to have heaps of amazing kit from back in the early to mid 1900s: Demolition Reveals 1911 Garage Wall Ad, King Street Newtown http://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/page/8/ That’s right, photos. Instead of a Video of the Week, I’m posting some exciting archeological photos I took for you just a few hours ago. There was a fire near me recently. A dry cleaners burnt to the ground. The building has been demolished. And behind a demolished wall a well-preserved painted advertisement has been revealed I guessed by the artwork and fonts that the ad was from 1911. A quick look at the Sands Directory tells me I’m about right. The Sands Directory was an annual listing of everyone who lived in Sydney with their addresses and occupations. The last Sands was published in 1932 In 1910, according to Sands, the site of the demolished dry cleaners was the Newtown Carriage Works — Arthur Dunn, proprietor. In 1911, it became H. Phippen’s motor garage. He was a motor engineer. By 1912, Phippen had left and Arthur Dunn’s Coachbuilding business had returned. Or, perhaps, between 1911 – 1914, the site was shared between the coach building and garage businesses – new technology piggybacking on the old. By 1915 the site was occupied by an upholsterer Because of a locked wire gate I couldn’t get a full shot of this huge, vibrant ad from the street. So below is a series of shots covering the entire wall I took from the footpath. In this first photo, note ‘Cars for Hire’ and ‘Waratah Motor Spirit’. What would have been the demand for Car hire in 1911? Was H. Phippen ahead of his time? Did low demand beat his business? It’s not listed in the Sands Directory for 1912 Waratah Motor Spirit appears to have still been around in 1925 when you could buy it from twelve outlets around Sydney, according to an ad in the Sydney Morning Herald dated 28 Jan 1925. As you can see in the bottom of the wall ad, Waratah, was a product of the Neptune Oil Company. Neptune Oil began in Australia in 1905. A motoring website says Neptune’s Waratah brand was introduced in 1917. This ad proves the motoring historian wrong. The site became an upholsterers in 1915. An upholsterer wouldn’t be putting up an all-weather sign visible to passing motorists for Motor Spirit Perdriau Tyres? Henry Perdriau entered the rubber importing business in Sydney in 1888. His Perdriau Rubber Co. Ltd. started manufacturing rubber parts in 1904 and finally merged with Dunlop in 1929 to form Dunlop Perdriau Rubber Co. Ltd. Could this be the earliest Perdriau wall sign extant? A Perdriau glass lantern slide ad from 1924 – 29 exists in the ANU Digital Collection in Canberra It’s hard to see in the photo below, but on site I could just make out the phone number L1905. L stood for 5 and was the area prefix for Newtown and surrounding Inner West Sydney suburbs. Sydney phone numbers used one and two letter prefixes until the mid-1960s. The code was: A = 1, B = 2, F = 3, J = 4, L = 5, M = 6, U = 7, W = 8, X = 9, Y = 0 Some more pics. The sign-writing is of an extremely high standard. The Waratah is a beautiful piece of commercial art. The amount of effort involved in sign writing such a huge space by hand is quite extraordinary, especially if they used, as my grandfather did about the same time as a house painter, individually mixed paints. My grandfather would crush blocks of pigment with a mortar & pestle and mix the powder with linseed oil and I guess some kind of fixer. I particularly like the blue used in the top band of the sign. It’s a colour you don’t see now. The uneven durability of hand-made paint is revealed in the preservation of the different colours. The green lettering for the phone number and the red fill for the Waratah are the most deteriorated Having been protected by the sun and weather for almost a hundred years by a brick wall, this is a most amazingly intact piece of commercial pre-WWI art A new building will be erected on the site. Will the sign survive another 100 years? After the photos you’ll see the play list for this week’s Phantom Dancer on 2SER Unfortunately some fucking idiot..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 some times graff really sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morton Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazztechno Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 SIGN PAINTERS (OFFICIAL TRAILER) http://vimeo.com/61006621#at=0 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityonSMASH Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 yeeeeuh. love these things dying art form preserve this shit people and the artist dudes that can paw a straight like like whoa pick this shit up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 http://vimeo.com/22240175 sign painting in India Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walid Jumblat Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 If anyone is in Austin Tx there has been a great full wall vintage hand painted sign revealed due to a demolition on Congress between 4th and 5th. I was on a bus when I spotted it and didn't get the chance to flick it. If anyone is in the area and gets the chance to catch it, it would be worth the effort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSO Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 I am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 everywhere in India you see this I think means "space for rent" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hua Guofang Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortFuse Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Recent wedding board I did for a coworker. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Hashtag wedding. Nice work though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 “Sara Marshall’s “Brand by Hand” lettering project transforms the logos of familiar brands into stylish calligraphy. The aim of the project, according to Marshall, is to reacquaint “the cold corporate world” with the “hand-treated and flowery nature of hand lettering.” “Brand by Hand” takes on Subway, FedEx, YouTube, Evian, Skype, Coca-Cola and a handful of other logos, keeping their colors and general layout intact, illustrating that even the most straightforward, risk-averse logos can be made pretty with a little effort.” 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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