I am helping the organisers of this year's Amsterdam Letterheads: “Sea Level” with their email updates.

If you'd like to receive these, then the dedicated event newsletter/mailing list can be joined via this link:

https://bl.ag/#/portal/account/newsletters

Here's a report from their 2016 meet for a taste of what to expect in the Netherlands this August:

https://bl.ag/letterheads-2016-greetings-from-amsterdam/

#Letterheads #SignPainting #Signwriting #SignPainters #Lettering #Signwriters #Amsterdam #IOAFS

New at bl.ag online, ‘Signs of the Times: The Letterheads in 1981’, in which I tracked down and republished the first ever piece of press for the sign painting movement, exactly 45 years after it appeared in Signs of the Times magazine.

https://bl.ag/signs-of-the-times-the-letterheads-in-1981/

#Letterheads #IOAFS #SignPainting #SignPainters #SignsOfTheTimes #1981

Holiday viewing for you all: Luscious Layouts with Mark Oatis, his talk at this year's Letterheads 50.

https://youtu.be/T0u6atmCGYQ

#Lettering #Layout #GraphicDesign #Letterheads #LH50

For Turkish readers interested in learning more about Burds of the Brush, here's Nil Muge's write-up of the Berlin event in September:

https://medium.com/tipografi/burds-of-the-brush-dayan%C4%B1%C5%9Fmayla-b%C3%BCy%C3%BCyen-bir-topluluk-a206f7cce6d5

#SignPainting #Letterheads

Throwback to 2019 when I wrote up my trip to Tokyo Letterheads for Eye Magazine: https://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/letters-from-tokyo

More at bl.ag online here: https://bl.ag/tokyo-letterheads-now-bigger-in-japan/

#Letterheads #IOAFS #SignPainting #Tokyo

One of the stories in BLAG 07 (https://bl.ag/07) comes from Stéphanie Lebon who travelled from Réunion to Tokyo for the gathering there in 2019 (https://bl.ag/tokyo).

She talks about the challenges she faced in getting there, and the impact that attending had on her.

Today she sent me this photo of her contributor copy of the special issue arriving in Réunion, which brought a huge smile to my face 😊.

She's on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cosmophanie/

#Réunion #Tokyo #Letterheads #IOAFS

New at bl.ag online, 'The Letterheads Go Large at the 1982 Oklahoma Bash', in which host Mike Jackson reflects on a meet that redefined what a Letterheads could be.

https://bl.ag/the-letterheads-go-large-at-the-1982-oklahoma-bash/

This is the third in a series of bonus content posts connected to the Letterheads special issue of BLAG: https://bl.ag/07

#SignPainting #Lettering #Letterheads #IOAFS

New(ish) at bl.ag online, 'Letterheads 50: 28 Days Later', in which I try to make sense of what happened at the American Sign Museum in June through the lens of photographer Natalie Grilli.

https://bl.ag/letterheads-50-28-days-later/

See if you can find me in this huge group shot that Natalie stitched together after shooting a bunch of pictures from up a ladder...

#SignPainting #Letterheads #SignPainters #Signwriting #Signwriters #Lettering #Craft #AmericanSignMuseum

Blagging it for Letterheads 50 at the American Sign Museum last month.

A full report from this historic event should follow this week, but in the meantime, thank you Yao Yao for this photo of me at my booth.

PS. BLAG back issues here: https://bl.ag/backissues

#BLAG #Magazine #Letterheads #SignPainting