Field Notes from BLAG: June 2025
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:
- Lost But Not Forgotten: Kent H. Smith
- BLAG 06 on The Daily Heller
- Ye Olde Sign Shoppe: Ruben Marcilla
- Ghost Sign Corner: Scarborow Optician
- Members in the News
- On the Brush
- The Future Is Handmade
- Sign Story: The Hollywood Sign
- Sundries
- PS. You Spaced It Wrong
Field Notes: June 2025
Lost But Not Forgotten: Kent H. Smith
Kent H. Smith (1947–2025) was sixth-generation signman, and not only passed this onto his own family, but to many others through his active involvement in the Letterheads movement. He will be missed at Letterheads 50 next week and, in addition to this formal obituary, Signs of the Times editor Mark Kisling has written a personal tribute here.
BLAG 06 on 'The Daily Heller'
Talking about magazines doing it in print, Steven Heller describes BLAG as "among my favorites". The February 'Daily Heller' column also adds that, "The current issue [BLAG 06] includes a smorgasbord of tasty treats".
Thanks Steven!