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BLAG Magazine: Adventures in sign painting craft, community, and culture.

The world's only print and online publication dedicated to sign painting.

Inside you'll find #signpainting #signwriting #lettering #ghostsigns #signpainters #signwriters

Toots are from Sam, a Londoner living in Sant Pere de Ribes, Catalonia.

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blag, to Philippines
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Jeepneys are a popular mode of transport in The Philippines, and last year I profiled the decorative work that adorns them. This includes a wonderful documentary film by Esy Casey.

http://bl.ag/jeepney

Today I found this video about a sign painter that produces the destination and other functional/directional signage for the Jeepneys. It shows the painter at work, including his tools, materials, and techniques.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YWyXVyD1Hdw

blag, to Montreal
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New at bl.ag online, 'Meet Claude Dolbec: Montreal's Elusive Sign Painter'

https://bl.ag/meet-claude-dolbec-montreals-elusive-sign-painter/

Short documentary feature about Montreal's most prolific, but elusive sign painters: Claude Dolbec.

blag, to calligraphy
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My eldest's latest adventures in letters is this self-initiated piece using aquabeads. They're now mounted onto this hand-bound booklet as a gift for her friend, Ona.

If this inspires you for your next creation, then there's more about the environmental disaster that are aquabeads at https://aquabeadsart.com.

Infrogmation, to NewOrleans
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New Orleans signs: Gators edition (volume II).

  1. Carrollton
  2. Central Business District
  3. Bayou St. John
  4. Lakeview

Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.

@noladon

Interior of a supermarket. Shelf with local spices and cooking supplies has large chalkboard sign. Text: "Shop ROUSES For Your CAJUN Cooking Needs". Multicolor chalk cartoon of an alligator stirring a large cooking pot. A colorful parasol is above the gator's head; the gator smiles broadly with rows of sharp teeth. Text on the cooking pot: "Laissez les Bon Temps Roulez!" (Louisiana French for "Let the Good Times Roll".)
Bayou body of water with grassy banks, houses seen in background on far shore. In center is a square metal sign, black text and artwork on bright yellow. Text: "ALLIGATORS IN THE XIUHMOPOILLI". The text surrounds round artwork, copied from the center of the famous Aztec Sun Stone, depicting a stylized human face with tongue sticking out surrounded with Aztec glyphs in the form of reptile heads and an outer circle with points sticking out, a mythological depiction of the Sun. The pole holding up the sign has been decorated with ceramic artwork, at top and bottom of pole simple round discs, between them a ceramic depiction of a small alligator.
Display in small garden space, wooden fence in background, green shrubs in soil bed. Halloween plastic skeletons lie at left, one human form the other alligator. Sign in form of fake tombstone drawings of a pair of alligators at top with a fleur-de-lis in the center. Below is text: "RIP DUMPSTER GATOR 2021". At bottom is artwork depicting the tip of the tail of an alligator sticking up from the ground. Note: Reference is to a large dead alligator seen sticking out of a dumpster in an urban section of New Orleans after Hurricane Ida in 2021, with no one seeming to know how it got there.

blag,
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@Infrogmation @noladon Not New Orleans, but you might like this one: https://botsin.space/@oldroadside/112302397044116283

presstype, to random
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folks, is there an additive for lettering enamel to make it reflective?

blag,
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@presstype It's not something I've heard of. What's the project?

blag,
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@presstype My hunch is that you'll need to work with a speciality paint but can put some feelers out.

blag,
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@presstype I posted this question about reflective paint to the BLAG Forum and Jill Strong replied, see attached.

She also shared a link to a manufacturer of the microbeads: https://www.tenroadsglass.com/products/ks-standard-micro-glass-beads.html

I'd love to know if you give it a try, and to see any results achieved, and lessons learned.

cc @Luke

markstos, to fediverse
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is beginning development for Ghost, while also still figuring out exactly which features they want to implement.

They have a form here for feedback, particularly for Ghost blog managers:
https://tally.so/r/m67X4P

blag,
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@markstos @liaizon Horray! There are a few of us that have been asking for this in the forum so it's great to see it moving ahead in some form 🎉

Moorknipser, to photography German
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Sowas mag ich!

blag,
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@Moorknipser @fembot This cartoon is by Richard Jolley (http://rgjcartoonist.co.uk/about/) and appeared in Private Eye magazine.

I also got to reproduce it for Issue 02 of BLAG (https://bl.ag/02) alongside an idiosyncratic piece about whether measurements for artworks are given Width x Height, or vice versa.

blag, to portland
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New at bl.ag online, 'Bringing a Gilded Victorian Transom Window Back to Life'.

Visit https://bl.ag/transom to learn from @ajsignsdorset about the techniques used to create the original sign, and the work he's done to make it just like new again.

Short silent video panning from left to right across and then from bottom to top of a gilded Victorian transom window. The ornate Tuscan letters have scrollwork in the centres and give the name of the house, Rosslyn, and the window also has a decorative gilded border.

blag, to random
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Check out this collection of photos featuring a sign painter posing with his work in Cuba in the 1950s.

They're for sale on ebay and I'd pay something for nice scans if anyone forges ahead and buys the set...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741946217 (the one shown here)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741955783

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741923583

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741957116

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741929249

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741471388

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741944091

https://www.ebay.com/itm/325741958160

blag, to random
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“What really drives me crazy is if you go to a truck show and you see a 1950s restored Bedford or something like that, and it’s got computer cut lettering on it!” — Philip Smyth

https://www.tradetrucks.com.au/signwriter-shares-his-thoughts-on-traditional-vs-vinyl-styles-and-mistakes-to-avoid/

18+ AimeeMaroux, to web
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I'm testing anonymous, non-tracking on my website just to see which articles are popular. Does anyone have any experience with @plausible ?

blag,
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@AimeeMaroux @aehdeschaine @plausible I use it on my site and find it much easier to make sense of versus Google analytics that I once tried.

I get a weekly and monthly emsil digest of my site's stats, and the dashboard helps to understand things like where in the world visitors are from, what sites bring them to mine, and how well different pages/posts do.

blag,
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@AimeeMaroux I have the web version which I pay for.

blag, to random
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Thank you @onpaperwings for this deep dive into the beautiful islands of San Serriffe: https://realdougwilson.com/writing/san-serriffe

blag, to comics
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This kickstarter from @glennf is now more then 2/3 funded with just over a week left to see the project over the line.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made

'How Comies Were Made' is a visual history of the techniques and processes used to bring artist’s hand to the printed page over the last 130+ years of the medium.

Check out the videos and preview images from the book on the kickstarter page above, and back the project to get a copy when it ships in the autumn.

blag, to calligraphy
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Who's got some good RSS feeds for me to follow in the realms of sign painting, lettering, typography, calligraphy...

Please boost to cast the net wider.

#SignPainting #lettering #typography #calligraphy #RSS #boost #AskFedi

Sudetype, to random
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We’ve finally made the move we’ve been planning for a long time: away from Google (which we used primarily for mail services). The transition to Proton for Business was much easier than we thought (though if we take suspiciously long to reply to your email… it might not have gone so smoothly 😅).

Yes, we may be paying a little more now, but knowing that we are no longer supporting a company whose values and actions we often disagree with is definitely worth it.

@protonmail

blag,
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@Sudetype @protonmail Any tips on making the move, and if/how you've managed other aspects such as calendar, docs, drive etc?

I feel I'm somewhat tangled in a web there, and unsure how to unpick its various strands...

blag, to calligraphy
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BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 04 is set to be a marathon with 18 sessions across 11 hours on Saturday, 2 March.

Visit https://bl.ag/meet for details of this online event.

It's all offered free of charge to broaden access, but for those that can, a suggested $10 contribution to the running costs is appreciated: https://bl.ag/tip.

Please to help reach more people that might like to indulge in these adventures in sign painting.

blag,
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On Saturday in Los Angeles there will be an art giveaway at Oh Nami Gallery.

The work was produced by the late, great, Doc Guthrie (https://bl.ag/doc), and 100% of the donation-based proceeds will go to charity.

The event is on the same day as BLAG Meet (https://bl.ag/meet) and Nami Oh will join us via a pre-recorded video sharing the experience of opening a gallery, and some of its current activities, including the Doc Guthrie giveaway.

blag,
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I've just finished working with Alice Mazzilli on her next 'Interowriting' column for BLAG, the fifth in her 'adventures in writing' series.

Alice will also be delivering a session at Saturday's BLAG Meet (https://bl.ag/meet), exploring the theme of handwriting, and its contemporary relevance in the ‘digital era’.

And you can join her while she writes; just have lined paper and your favourite writing instrument to hand.

blag,
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Jennifer Konanz is joining us this weekend for BLAG Meet (https://bl.ag/meet). She has been a mentor to many young sign painters, and in her session she'll be sharing her experience to cover:

How to survive and thrive as a sign painter in a remote part of the world.

How to expand your services while keeping it all hand made?

How to adapt your business as you grow a family?

Jen was profiled in 'Shop Talk in BLAG 04: https://bl.ag/04.

blag,
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The Light Capsules initiative from Craig Winslow had me hooked from the moment I saw it.

Craig's latest installation in Winnipeg was the 'Ghost Sign Corner' feature in BLAG 04 (https://bl.ag/04) and he will be sharing a little of that at this weekend's BLAG Meet, before diving into some of his process, and what's in the pipeline for future installations.

Craig's session is one of 18 across 11 hours, all online and free to join: https://bl.ag/meet.

blag,
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What's it like opening a sign shop with a high street presence, and a shopfront of your very own?

Find out tomorrow at BLAG Meet (https://bl.ag/meet) from two people that have recently done just that: Rachel E Millar and Hana Lindsay, the duo behind Glasgow's Bungo Sign Co.

Hana and Rachel are just two of the many contributors to BLAG Meet, which kicks off online tomorrow at 11am London time. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T4siNqR7R1S-LUPNeikB_Q#/registration.

blag,
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'Getting Into It' is becoming a regular feature at BLAG, and tomorrow Tomos Jones will share his whirlwind journey from seeing a bit of signwriting on instagram to working all over the UK, and with some top-notch craftspeople.

Tomos' session is one of 18 across 11 hours, all online and free to join: https://bl.ag/meet.

Pictured is a Tomos' project for the the Welsh town with the second longest place name in the world: siliogogogoch

blag,
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A BLAG Meet bonus: I've just added a session with Kathy Kikkert who will be taking us for a walk through Hollywood's sign history. These iconic signs have fascinating back stories, and Kathy will tell some of those from her book, Hollywoood Signs.

Head to https://bl.ag/meet for details of all the sessions and a timezone converter to get the start times wherever you are in the world.

Just five hours to go until it all kicks off—I cannot wait!

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