One for Spanish readers, or just enjoy the pictures:

‘Entrevista Ales Santos: «El trabajo manual me ha llevado a querer trabajar más con las manos y menos con la pantalla»’ (interview with Ales Santos: “Manual work makes me want to do more with my hands and less on the screen”)

https://www.rayitasazules.com/entrevista-ales-santos-artesano-del-diseno/

Ales’ website can be found at https://www.alessantos.es and the photo here is by Donna Salama at https://donnasalama.com.

#SignPainting #SignPainters #Rotulistas #Rotulismo RayitasAzules

New at bl.ag online, ‘What I Do With (Sign Painters’) Stickers’, with a look inside my album of over 400 stickers collected since about 2019:

https://bl.ag/what-i-do-with-sign-painters-stickers/

Look out for cameos from @allthingsletters @eWalthert @admin @FrancoisTusseki

#Stickers #SignPainters #StickerAlbum #StickerCollection

Well, this is tantalising...

"In 2018, two art school students, Alessandro Latela and Gianluca Ciancaglini, published the first formal study of Mr. De Stefano and the numeraio tradition ... A third designer, Emilio La Mura, created a standardized, computer-made font named Pasquale in homage to the numeraio — a gesture that was 'misunderstood', Mr. Latela said. Mr. De Stefano's family contested the book and the font, fearing that they would be mistaken for his own work, and the projects were pulled from distribution."

Taken from the (paywalled) article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/arts/design/naples-italy-painter.html

#SignPainting #SignPainters #Numeraio #Naples #Napoli

New at bl.ag online, ‘William Gilpin: Signwriter of Ulverston’, with a reproduction of Tony Lewery’s 2016 article describing one man’s contribution to the character of a Cumbrian town.

https://bl.ag/william-gilpin-signwriter-of-ulverston/

With thanks to Tony Lewery and Forum editor John Neilson for their kind permission to share this wonderful piece with BLAG readers. Forum 31 with the original is available in the Letter Exchange shop:

https://letterexchange.org/shop/forum-journal/forum-31

#SignPainting #Signwriting #Ulverston #Cumbria #SignPainters #Signwriters

New at bl.ag online, ‘Brendan Mooney: Memories of a Signwriter’, with a charming short biopic about this retired signwriter from Birr, County Offaly, Ireland.

https://bl.ag/brendan-mooney-memories-of-a-signwriter/

#SignPainting #Signwriting #SignPainters #Signwriters #Birr #Offaly #ShortFilms

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

Wishing brush-wielding women around the world a happy International Women's Day. Here are two relevant features/articles from BLAG back issues:

1. ‘Safe Spaces and Mighty Meets: Representation and Community for Women, Trans, and Nonbinary Sign Painters’ by Meredith Kasabian (https://www.meredithkasabian.com) in BLAG 07, the Letterheads special (https://bl.ag/07).

Meredith's original audio interviews are available at: https://bl.ag/the-pre-vinylettes-podcast-and-more-burds-on-the-brush/.

#SignPainting #SignPainters #IWD #IWD2026

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Support your local sign painter, and if you’re in Ottawa then that can be the lovely Pascal Arpin. She has usefully included a map on her website so that you can easily go check her work for other businesses before hiring her:

https://www.pascalearpin.com/about

It’s a neat idea, which could only be improved by adding images of the signs directly to the map in case it’s not the weather for walking the streets sign spotting.

#SignPainting #Signwriting #SignPainters #Ottawa

Just got my hands on the charming ‘Sign Dogs’ zine from Sarah Apple, with all proceeds going to a good canine cause: https://luckysigns.square.site/product/sign-dog-zine/5GEJUYFW2DBUVFJNZXAWPUHW

I’m planning to include this tribute to sign painters and their dogs in the ‘Reader’s Digest’ section of BLAG 09, coming to members in the summer.

#Dogs #SignPainters #Zines