I didn't find out until after I'd already bought my used copy, but this book is *not* out of print, it has seemingly limited distribution and web search favors scalpers.
You can get it here (US) https://letterheadsignsupply.com/books/Books-on-Sign-Painting?product_id=51 and here (UK) https://www.handover.co.uk/book-mastering-layouts/
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By pure coincidence, today was also the day this video from BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 05 went live on @sam so you can get a heavy dose of Noel and his work there too:
Now in its third printing, A Sign Painter's Sketch Book by Noel B. Weber is back in stock in the BLAG shop.
https://shop.bl.ag/products/a-sign-painterss-sketchbook
“Noel’s book is amazing. He’s faithful to the period he's working with, but his details are always original and very inventive. The execution is, of course, flawless.” — Carl Rohrs, calligrapher
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Still Loving It with Noel B. Weber
A Life on the Brush with Roger Warsop
@rdp I am loving the secondary copy in the block shade — fabulous.
Is it a ghost sign? It depends on your definition, but I'd vote yes. More on that in this extended riff on the theme:
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Roberts-Marshall-What-is-a-Ghost-Sign.pdf
Sthlm Signs X Lolo Co.
Thank you to Steven Heller for featuring BLAG 08 (https://bl.ag/08) on yesterday's 'Daily Heller' in @printmag:
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-signs-letters-art/
Neat new feature from Ghost: gift subscriptions.
Give the gift of BLAG for a chosen period of time and get a custom link for your recipient to start enjoying the adventures in sign painting:
A group chat I'm in got started on the 'Sign painting, art or craft?' question today, and I linked to this article I wrote, which includes the quote below from Tony Lewery:
"Art is about the emotional response, craft is the practical handling of materials and techniques. Happily the two are so often involved and interdependent that this separation is quite unnecessary."
https://bl.ag/what-is-sign-painting-or-even-signwriting/
Night night.
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