letterspace.amsterdamApr 3
Letterheads 2026 – Amsterdam Signpainters
August 27 – 30, Oeidpus Brewing
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The #Letterheads. What once started 50 years ago in a garage as a casual gathering of American sign painters to share knowledge with each other, has since grown into a global phenomenon. Countries such as Portugal, Japan, Australia, Finland, New Zeeland, and Norway have organised one or more Letterheads since then.
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https://www.amsterdamsignpainters.nl/letterheads2026
Show threadSam at BLAGApr 1

Tickets are getting snapped up now.

Get less FOMO and more IOAFS in your life this summer by booking here:

https://ticketsoft.nl/pos/event/9d589773-8cc1-4401-97f0-d6bc74de1e62

#SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering #Letterheads

Amsterdam Letterheads 2026 - Sea Level

Bestel online tickets voor Amsterdam Letterheads 2026 - Sea Level via TicketSoft. Amsterdam Letterheads 2026 - Sea Level is op 27-08-2026 in Oedipus Craft Space.

Sam at BLAGApr 1

Tickets for this year's Letterheads meet in Amsterdam, 27–30 August, go live at midday European time today, 1 April:

https://www.amsterdamsignpainters.nl/letterheads2026/?ref=bl.ag

#SignPainting #Signwriting #Lettering #Letterheads #Amsterdam @IOAFS

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d'archives et d'ailleursMar 27
Ribambelle de bibendum. Ou bidendi ?

En-tête de la manufacture de caoutchouc Michelin, 1941.

Source : Archives nationales, cote 19800051/25/2

#letterheads #archives #1jour1archive #michelin #20esiecle #viedarchiviste #archivesnationales #industrie #caoutchouc #bibendum
Sam at BLAGMar 13

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

Sam at BLAGFeb 20

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

Show threadSam at BLAGFeb 19

It’s just over six months until Amsterdam Letterheads 28–30 August so I recommend checking out my report from the last one (https://bl.ag/letterheads-2016-greetings-from-amsterdam/) in case you want to get involved.

In the meantime, I'm hosting my regular online event to coincide with the publication of the latest issue of the magazine. BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 08 is taking place on Saturday, 25 April, with the usual mix of talks, interviews, studio visits and demonstrations.

https://bl.ag/meet.

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#Letterheads #BLAG

Sam at BLAGDec 20

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

Mark Oatis on Sign Layouts - 2025 June 22 - Letterheads50 - American Sign Museum - Cincinnati, Ohio

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Sam at BLAGNov 27

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

Sam at BLAGSep 5, 2025

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