Decades ago, DC was full of hand-painted signs pointing customers toward various retail establishments. They were eye-­catching and distinctive, but they were also expensive, required regular ...

Stephen Powers is known for creating colorful, playful and often poignant typographic murals that live somewhere between street art and community activism. For over a decade, Powers has been working ...

Dan Kamba and Chuck Wilmarth are debating how to spell Oscar Mayer wiener. The “i” should be before the “e,” says Kamba, co-owner of Southwest Signs in the Clearing neighborhood, but Wilmarth, the ...

You’re likely familiar with the painted logos of businesses like Ruby’s Bagels or murals like El Paletero in Walker’s Point. But do you know the artist behind them? Michael Cerda is a sign painter, ...

But on a smaller scale, take a look in or above shop windows. Hand-painted signs are increasingly common, and this old-school style of art-meets-commerce hasn’t seen this much action since the 1940s. ...

Admittedly, yours truly is a sentimental sucker for family nostalgia, and well, I'm pretty much its preserver. As a lucky kid growing up in and around the auto dismantling business, acres of old cars ...

Ruben Marcilla started painting the signs on Avista Stadium’s outfield fence when the plywood was new, marking off sections that would become insurance and grocery ads so big and bold the ...

SAN ANGELO — This Angelo State Graphic Design graduate is user her talents to create hand painted canvas signs to sell on her online Etsy website. Sidney Smith, owner of Sidney Smith Designs, makes ...

Outside of a residential building on North Miro Street in New Orleans’ Treme neighborhood, there is a thin, white pole about six feet high. At the top of the pole is the frame for a two-part sign; the ...

CHICAGO — Dan Kamba and Chuck Wilmarth are debating how to spell Oscar Mayer wiener. The “i” should be before the “e,” says Kamba, co-owner of Southwest Signs in Chicago, but Wilmarth, the other ...