Stuck in the middle of an advertising world dominated by banner ads and pop-ups, it’s hard to image a time when most advertisements were hand painted on brick walls and shop windows. Thirty years ago, ...

Nov 5, 2013 Nov 5, 2013 Updated Jun 12, 2015 COLUMBIA — John Crockett is one of the last craftsmen around who still honors the tradition of lettering signs by hand. For two decades, the retired art ...

In the digital era, printing signage can be as easy as clicking a few icons on your computer. While the art of hand-painted lettering hasn’t entirely been usurped by electronic tools, it’s a somewhat ...

Even in an age of emoji, when people revel in communicating online using a shared set of colorful icons, it makes sense that there are still those who are able to eke out a living painting signs for ...

Lester Carey parks his shopping cart full of paint supplies on the neutral ground on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Claiborne Avenue. Carey, dressed in a red shirt tucked into high-waisted ...

SHAYNA: IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A SIGN WHILE WORKING ON A SHOW ABOUT SIGNS, THAT IS IT. >> THEY STOPPED SELLING THE NET HE BUDDIES AND OTHER FROZEN STREETS -- STREETS IN EARLY 2000. THE DORCHESTER ...

Sean Starr coats his angled Fitch brush in the white, oil-based 1 Shot paint. With a steady hand, he slowly rounds the brush to perfectly line the outside of an uppercase O. The sign reads “MORRISSEY ...

Last fall, I went on a reporting road trip through the American South. Eating was not the main purpose of the trip, but the need to find food along the road between North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, ...

Outside of a residential building on North Miro Street in New Orleans’ Treme neighborhood, there is a thin, white pole about six feet high. At the top of the pole is the frame for a two-part sign; the ...

The Hobbs Battery advertisement, a century-old sign in Orange, was restored last week, after sitting covered with graffiti for about a year. Frustrated no action had been taken to restore the sign on ...

This story starts with an old suitcase. And a sign painter who had, in his own words, "the audacity to try." Koy Suntichotinun, who goes by Koy Sun, wanted to do something different and make a change, ...