Faythe Levine and Sam Macon’s “Sign Painters” is the kind of book you buy as a present for someone else because it looks cool and then can’t part with yourself. The photographs are what draw you in ...

Before the age of computers and vinyl printers, sign painters worked by hand to illustrate storefronts, billboards and banners. Sign Painters, a... 'Sign Painters': A Close-Up Focus On An Endangered ...

You know you've reached a level of comfort in your job when your brain takes a nap and your hands keep going. It's like that for Randy Mueller. "Sometimes he'll actually fall asleep while he's ...

Joseph Giampino can’t find any emerald-green paint. Half-pint cans of 1 Shot lettering enamel paint are stacked in every corner of his Maywood Road studio, bursting at the seams alongside tool ...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — A liberal amount of gray is flecked in the beard and hair of Norman Randall, 54. It’s not from the paint the Cheyenne man is applying to signs at the AVA Community Art Center in ...

Sign painter Josh Flohre, owner of Ink & Hammer, in his studio in Dayton's Davis-Linden building. Flohre has an extensive inspiration collection of antique signs and documents. Sign painter Josh ...

Lester Carey parks his shopping cart full of paint supplies on the neutral ground on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Claiborne Avenue. Carey, dressed in a red shirt tucked into high-waisted ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The couple has a cute dachshund named Dahlia, who enjoys napping on a couch near the front windows of as colorful a storefront business as you are likely to ...

MAZEPPA, Minn. -- In the digital age, a sign painter in southeastern Minnesota is proving the old fashioned way still works. Mike Meyer of Mazeppa started making hand-painted signs in 1977. "Back then ...