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Woman painting the colour purple on a portion of a wall with other portions already painted in red and white.
People

Risen Through the Ranks: Colossal Media’s Supreme Janine

Janine Taylor is the first woman to progress from Apprentice to Expert Painter at Colossal Media.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Dec 11, 2025 • 2 min read
Ornate Tuscan letter L with its face and block shade decorated with a variety of gilded and painted effects..
Places

Glorious Gilding Samples at the American Sign Museum

A show of mastery on reverse glass gilded panels from the American Sign Museum’s collections.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Dec 4, 2025 • 9 min read
Words with Meaning: The Personal Panels of Luis Benz
Films

Words with Meaning: The Personal Panels of Luis Benz

Santiago Carrasquilla and Danaé Gosset share the work painted by Luis Benz while filming his biopic.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Nov 27, 2025 • 6 min read
Man sat on a stool painting a sign advertising "Money Fever, Divas Edition, at Spicy Thursdays HQ."
People

When ‘Hand-Painted Jamaica’ Met Bug Art Sav

Tracey Thorne profiles Bug Art Sav, a Jamaican sign painter keeping the island’s traditions alive.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Nov 20, 2025 • 7 min read
Mural with block and shade lettering for 'Me Aul Flower' set within an array of pale pink flowers.
People

Chain Letter: Meghan McDermott

The Dublin mural by Vanessa Power that inspired Meghan McDermott to become a sign painter.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Nov 13, 2025 • 3 min read
When Better Letters Met Brian Walker
Films

When Better Letters Met Brian Walker

Short film celebrating the late Brian Walker's life and work as a signwriter in Hackney, London.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Nov 6, 2025 • 4 min read
Wide-angle photo of a museum gallery space filled with brightly coloured neon signs.
Places

Bring Back Tucson's Sign Museum After Its Devastating Fire

Fundraising for the Ignite Sign Art Museum in Tucson, Arizona, which has lost hundreds of exhibits.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Oct 30, 2025 • 4 min read
Hooded sign painter on a ladder working on a fascia sign on a busy road.
Projects

Renegade Writing: London’s Faux Fascias

This Is My Costume speaks to BLAG about its decade-long initiative refashioning abandoned shops.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Oct 16, 2025 • 6 min read
A Sneak Peek Inside the American Sign Museum Book
Books

A Sneak Peek Inside the American Sign Museum Book

Celebrating 25 years of the American Sign Museum through the lens of its most important exhibits.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Oct 9, 2025 • 4 min read
Profile photo of an ornate and colourfully decorated truck with its driver just visible in the cabin looking out.
Books

Mobile Masterpieces: South Asia's Dazzling ‘Trucks and Tuks’

A new book documents the diverse decorations found on working vehicles from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Sep 25, 2025 • 5 min read
Series of five illustrations showing hand-position and technique for working with a mahl stick while painting lettering and lines.
Learning

The Mike Stevens Journal, Volume 1, Number 5

Mastering Layout's Mike Stevens riffing on brush technique, letter formation, and mahl sticks.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Sep 18, 2025 • 14 min read
Woman standing in front of a hand-drawn and lettered blackboard advertising a variety of colourful cocktails.
Learning

Watch Cheryl McLean's Blackboard Art Seminar from LH50

Blackboard art tips, tricks, and techniques shared in a pre-recorded session for Letterheads 50.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Aug 28, 2025 • 3 min read
The Letterheads Go Large at the 1982 Oklahoma Bash
Events

The Letterheads Go Large at the 1982 Oklahoma Bash

43 years later, host Mike Jackson reflects on a meet that redefined what a Letterheads could be.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Aug 21, 2025 • 7 min read
View from the side of a woman working with a mahl stick and fine brush to paint lettering on the back of a piece of glass.
People

The Pre-Vinylettes Podcast and More Burds on the Brush

Bonus content from Meredith Kasabian's BLAG 07 feature on women, trans, and nonbinary sign painters.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Aug 14, 2025 • 9 min read
Bonus Books and Links from BLAG 07
Books

Bonus Books and Links from BLAG 07

The first instalment of the digital companion to BLAG 07, the Letterheads special.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Aug 7, 2025 • 12 min read
Two magazines with masthead IOAFS placed on top of a folded poster which has been removed to reveal the cover on one copy of the magazine.
BLAG

What's Inside Issue 07 of BLAG, the Letterheads Special?

BLAG's first special issue applies an IOAFS twist to its worldwide adventures in sign painting.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Jul 31, 2025 • 8 min read
View from the side of a woman painting a man's face on a mural with reference to a picture of him taped to the wall beside her.
Events

Letterheads 50: 28 Days Later

A historic event at the American Sign Museum through the lens of photographer Natalie Grilli.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Jul 24, 2025 • 11 min read
A painted sign for a DTP shop called “ArtLife”. The name is painted in white on a green background, and a list of their services is painted in red on white.
Projects

Indian Sign Painting: A Typeface Designer’s Take on the Craft

Through her India Street Lettering project, Pooja Saxena re-examines the craft and its clichés.

  • Better Letters
Better Letters Jul 17, 2025 • 9 min read
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