Dan Kamba and Chuck Wilmarth are debating how to spell Oscar Mayer wiener. The “i” should be before the “e,” says Kamba, co-owner of Southwest Signs in the Clearing neighborhood, but Wilmarth, the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — He's in the business of helping other businesses. "Your business needs a sign or nobody is going to find you," says Jayson Salvi, owner of Salvi's Hand Painted Signsin ...

Decades ago, DC was full of hand-painted signs pointing customers toward various retail establishments. They were eye-­catching and distinctive, but they were also expensive, required regular ...

Emilio Carrillo’s mural of Latin American countries on the wall of an apartment building in Pico-Union. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series on ...

With a swift and steady hand, Ruben Marcilla is painting a 3-foot-tall “T.” The “T” is white, and Marcilla is cutting crisp lines around it in teal. When he’s done he moves on to “H,” then “E” and an ...

There are many ways that shop owners can display their pride for their business. One of them is sweeping the sidewalk on a daily basis – a respectable old world habit that somehow died years ago.

Meredith Kasabian and Josh Luke are the wife-and-husband team behind Best Dressed Signs. Luke started the hand-painted sign business in his native California – inspiring the company’s classy name by ...

Sometimes you’ll see a faint image shimmering off the side of a brick building – a ghostly reminder of what ad signage used to be before vinyl banners and precut plastic stick-on letters. Without ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Sean Danaher is quickly making a name for himself with eye ...

LAKESIDE, Calif. — David Ybarra, a 77-year-old artist, has been painting signs and murals throughout San Diego County for over five decades, with a particular focus on the town of Lakeside. Despite ...

In stripping away the old asbestos and cedar siding of his 1880 Summit Hill home, Todd Johnson unexpectedly uncovered a long-hidden piece of St. Paul history: Rare hand-painted advertising signs from ...

Tucked next to roads running through school zones in Japan are some hand-painted mascots known as "Tobita-kun, or more formally, "Tobidashi Bōya," which means "running boy." These signs are reminders ...