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.
Conferences, Letterheads, and Socials
Bristol: Letter Luvvers, monthly dates
High Springs FL: Walldogs, 22–26 March
Sydney: Signpainters Paint Jam, 25–26 March
Milford Lifton, Devon: Letterheads at Dingles, 24–25 March
Paris: ATypI, 9–14 May
New York: Typographics, 16–17 June
Copenhagen: Burds of the Brush, 22–25 June
Christchurch: Letterheads New Zealand, 29 September–1 October
Sydney: Australian Letterheads, 13–15 October
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
Various Locations: Sign Painting and Gilding with Mike Meyer
White Waltham, Maidenhead: Sign Painting, Gilding, and Fairground Art with Joby Carter
Torquay, Devon: Gilding with David A. Smith
Online / Los Angeles: Lettering, Layout and Other Topics with Smart Alex Signs
Portland OR: 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
Redfern NSW: Introduction to Brush Lettering, 8 April
Glasgow: Beginners Signwriting Workshop, 15–16 April, and 13–14 May
Leeds: Introduction to Casual Lettering, 16 April
Melbourne: Introduction to Sign Painting, 16 April
Online: Lettering Tricks & Techniques, 29–30 April
Ardington, Oxfordshire: Frenchic Furniture Painting, 31 May
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
Penland NC: Brush Lettering and Sign Painting, 18–30 June
Exhibitions
Dublin: Grand Stuff: Label Art from Ireland, to 26 March
San Francisco: Complete Machine — Lauren Rose D'Amato, to 2 April
Philadelphia: Ink and Brush: The beauty and spirit of Japanese calligraphy, to 30 April
Los Angeles: Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany, to 23 July
New York: Made in Japan: 20th-Century Poster Art, to 10 September 2023
Capitola CA: Capitola - Signs of the Times, to 31 December
Ditchling: Signs of the Seaside, 29 April–3 September
New York: Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols, 13 May–2 September
Ongoing
San Francisco: Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest [Also available as an online experience]
Las Vegas: Brilliant!
Talks, Tours and Screenings
Online: Ghostsigns Walking Tours, ongoing
Cincinnati: Neonworks Demonstrations, ongoing
Online / Cincinnati: Cincinnati Ballpark Signs, 23 March
San Francisco: Polk Street Ghost Sign Walking Tour, 25 and 26 March, and 1 April
Online: Letters from Buenos Aires, 28 March
San Francisco: Inventing the Alphabet: Origin Stories to Forensic Evidence, 20 April
London: Letter Exchange Lectures, featuring leading lettering artists, calligraphers, letter cutters and designers, monthly until 14 June
Past Event Reviews
Better Letters
Better Letters