During the pandemic, I rediscovered my passion for researching and writing about #signs and #signpainting—I got the #ghostsigns book into print, and The Showcards Book (see earlier toot in thread).

With no print magazines serving the sign painting trade, I developed the idea of a new print and online publication.

BLAG was born, and is now on its third issue: https://bl.ag/03. It takes an international view of the trade, and every article/issue is a pleasure to produce.

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Over the years I have also helped numerous agencies and their clients to find and collaborate with #signpainters and #lettering artists around the world.

This is a sampling of some of the projects that I worked on as producer, and I'm always open to new briefs where my skills and network could be beneficial.

I don't really plug this page of my site, but it has a load more images of projects I've worked on: https://bl.ag/portfolio/

#signpainting #signwriting #signwriters

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The reaction to our film about Cliff (previous toot in thread) led to producing three more about retired sign painters: When Better Letters Met...

- Josef Samuel, Vienna, Austria;
- Stan Wilkinson, Wokingham, UK;
- Barbara Enright, Sydney, Australia.

https://bl.ag/tag/when-better-letters-met/

Funding for these productions came from Colossal Media and Right Way Signs of Chicago, and my time was voluntary—I'd love to commission more via BLAG in the future.

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In 2016 I received an email from someone called Karen in Bristol. She told me that she was caring for an elderly gentleman that painted one of the local #ghostsigns in the 1950s.

You can read the full story at https://bl.ag/cliff, but one thing led to another and we produced a short film about this 96-year-old former #signpainter.

Sadly Cliff died before we had finished editing the final cut, but his was the first in the 'When Better Letters Met...' series.

RIP Cliff.

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