Field Notes from BLAG: February 2025

Pounce wheels, backwards letters, Spanish sign painters, and more goods and goodness from the field.

Window with gilded and shadowed sign in the upper portion, below which the sign painter is removing the pattern.
Oscar Nomen finishing up on his gild for Sant Andreu de Palomar.

Welcome back to Field Notes, my periodic member-only email with things of interest that I come across in my research and meanderings on the worldwide web. You can share your own discoveries for future issues via email to sam@bl.ag.

Contents

In this edition:

  • Papa's Got a Brand New Pounce Wheel
  • Ye Olde Sign Shoppe: Grady Sign Co.
  • Ghost Sign Corner: ⅃WO
  • Inside Letterform Archive: Calligraphy & Lettering
  • Members in the News: Shawn Gilheeney, and the Spanish Sign Painters
  • You Spelled It Wrong: The Yuros
  • Book Club: Jumbo, Issue 02
  • Cartoon(s): Signs of The Simpsons
  • Meet the Letterheads: Jason Carne T-Shirt
  • Sundries, including intellectual property theft, Ding Dong town, signs and celebrities, and more...

Field Notes: February 2025

Papa's Got a Brand New Pounce Wheel