Sign Painting and Lettering Events
Sign painting, sign and lettering events can be submitted for listing via sam@bl.ag or on the submissions page. See these posts for reviews of past events, including Letterheads meets.
BLAG Events
Online: 40 Years a Sign Painter: Liane Barker in Conversation, 18 June (19 in Australia)
Online: 3D Lettering and Shadows with Bold Statements, 8 July (visit bl.ag/events for the BLAG member discount)
Online: BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 03, 7 October
Conferences, Letterheads, and Socials
Bristol: Letter Luvvers, monthly dates
Paris: TypeParis, 2–4 June
Birmingham: Birmingham Design Festival, 8–9 June
New York: Typographics, 16–17 June
Copenhagen: Burds of the Brush, 22–25 June
Brussels: Benelux Letterheads, 8–10 September (details to be confirmed)
Online / San Francisco: Neon Speaks, 8–10 and 16–17 September
Christchurch: Letterheads New Zealand, 29 September–1 October
Online: BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 03, 7 October
Sydney: Australian Letterheads, 13–15 October
Epsom UK: Letterheads Epsom, 21–23 June 2024
Workshops and Courses
Some workshops and courses happen regularly, so these are given as links to their respective listings pages, following by other individual classes.
Rolling Workshops and Courses
Los Angeles: Sign Graphics at LA Trade Tech
San Francisco: Introduction to Brush Lettering with New Bohemia Signs
Various Locations: Sign Painting and Gilding with Mike Meyer
Online / White Waltham, Maidenhead: Sign Painting, Gilding, and Fairground Art with Joby Carter
Online / Torquay, Devon: Gilding with David A. Smith
Online / Los Angeles: Lettering, Layout and Other Topics with Smart Alex Signs
Various Locations: Sign Painting with Bryan Yonki
Cincinnati: Sign Crafting Saturday at the American Sign Museum
Bruges: Courses and workshops with the European Lettering Institute
Other Workshops and Courses
Collingwood, Ontario: Sign Design Masterclass and Workshop, 2–4 June
Barcelona: Fileteado Workshop, 3–4 June
Granada, Spain: Iniciación a la Rotulación, 3–4 June
Ditchling, Sussex: Introduction to Signwriting, 3–4 June
Buenos Aires: Letras cursivas con brush pen, jueves en junio
Online: Mastering Serif Letterforms, 10 June
New York: Expressive Lettering, 13–14 June
Barcelona: Workshop Rotulación a Pincel, 17–18 June
Penland NC: Brush Lettering and Sign Painting, 18–30 June
New York: Digital Lettering Effects, 20–21 June
New York: Lettering Tricks and Techniques, 22 June
Huddersfield: Signwriting Workshop, 25 June / 24 September / 26 November
Berlin: Summer Lettering Seminar, 29 June–1 July (Get $200 off the enrolment fee with code BLAG2023)
Barcelona: Workshop Rotulación a Pincel, 1–2 July
London: City & Guilds Summer School, including Lettering in Stone, 3–7 June, Gilding and Verre Églomisé, 3–7 or 10–14 July, and Stone Carving for Beginners, 10–14 or 17–21 July
Online: 3D Lettering and Shadows with Bold Statements, 8 July (visit bl.ag/events for the BLAG member discount)
Bangkok: Sign Painting Workshop, 8–9 July
Collingwood, Ontario: Sign Design Masterclass and Workshop, 14–16 July
Barcelona: Workshop Pan de Oro, 22 July
Online: Handpainted Lettering, 16, 23 & 30 September
Portland, Oregon: Intro to Sign Painting, 23–24 September
Portland, Oregon: Intro to Sign Painting, 20 October–20 November
Exhibitions
San Francisco: Subscription to Mischief: Graffiti Zines of the 1990s
London: Woven Cities: The unveiling of London’s Woven Crest, to 1 July
Los Angeles: Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany, to 23 July
New York: Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols, to 2 September
Ditchling, Sussex: Signs of the Seaside, to 3 September (also see talks related to the exhibition below)
New York: Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art, to 10 September 2023
New York: Advertising Type: Women in Digital Design, to 5 November
Capitola, California: Capitola - Signs of the Times, to 31 December
London: Brushstrokes to Brands, 5 August–25 November
Ongoing
Las Vegas: Brilliant!
Online: Once Upon a Try from the Museum of Brands
Online / San Francisco: Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest [Also available as an online experience]
Talks, Tours and Screenings
Online: Ghostsigns Walking Tours, ongoing
Cincinnati: Neonworks Demonstrations, ongoing
Online / Ditchling: Fairground History and Heritage and the Dingles Trust, 3 June (get 50% off the ticket price using discount code fairground)
Online: Library Show & Tell, 12 June
Online: Designblicke: Chris Campe, 13 June
Las Vegas: Neon Museum Photo Walk, 14 June
London: All Letters, Translucent and Dense, 14 June
Online: Subscription to Mischief Curators Talk, 15 June
Online: 40 Years a Sign Painter: Liane Barker in Conversation, 18 June (19 in Australia)
Brooklyn, New York: Green-Wood Cemetery Tour, 18 June
Brooklyn, New York: Walking Tour: Brooklyn Letters/Fort Greene, 18 June
New York: Curator’s tour of the Herb Lubalin Study Center, 20 June
Ditchling: Bend it, Shape it, Any Way You Want it: An Interactive Talk on Neon, 29 June
Online / Ditchling: Signs of the Seaside: Curator Talk with Justin Burns, 17 July
Online: BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 03, 7 October
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