Watch the Recordings from BLAG Meet Inside Issue 06
Five hours of talks, interviews, studio visits, and demonstrations from contributors to BLAG 06.
BLAG Meet is a free online event that gives you the opportunity to meet and hear from contributors to each issue of the magazine.
Below you can catch up with the recordings from BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 06, which took place on Saturday, 26 April. Thank you to all the contributors and attendees that took part across the day.
BLAG 06 is available to purchase in the BLAG Shop, along with other back issues and sign painting publications.
Inside BLAG 06
These videos go a bit deeper into a selection of the articles and features in BLAG 06, and there's even more in the issue's digital companion, with bonus videos, documents, and additional images.
Better Letters
Better Letters
The Sessions
The recordings from the following sessions can be viewed below in order of appearance.
- Pooja Saxena on her quest to learn and devise the language to describe letterforms on India’s vibrant signage.
- The team behind the Publi Fluor book share their investigations into the typographic lettering of Crystal Crickx.
- The craftspeople involved in the recent Main Street extension project at the American Sign Museum reflect on the experience.
- Kasey Smith discusses the digital tools she uses to find and view old ghost signs.
- Rick Janzen on creating signs for film and commercial applications.
- Stephen Coles at Letterform Archive gets deeper into the 24 volumes of The Complete Commercial Artist.
- Jay Smith gives a tour of his Idaho studio, including a look at some of the special new additions to his reference library.
- Elaine Wallis on her adventures in sign painting, from lettering showcards with a butchery as backdrop to painting murals at the American Sign Museum.
- Gustavo Ferrari draws and paints a dragon in the Fileteado Porteño style.
- Erno Hajo and Auckland's Laser Foil Letterpress studio share the process of creating an award-winning business card.