Artist Shawn Gilheeney shares how he became Providence's go-to sign painter.

Sign painter Josh Flohre, owner of Ink & Hammer, in his studio in Dayton's Davis-Linden building. Flohre has an extensive inspiration collection of antique signs and documents.

Before the age of computers and vinyl printers, sign painters worked by hand to illustrate storefronts, billboards and banners. Sign Painters, a new book and documentary by Faythe Levine and Sam ...

NPR's Neal Conan reads from listener comments on previous segments including, emergency response after Boston Marathon bombings, the endangered art of sign painting and the link between favoritism ...

Contemporary sign painter “Cool Hand” Ken Davis carries on the legacy of a disappearing trade.

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It was surfing that led S. Newman Darby, a 20-something commercial artist and sign painter who had tinkered with sailboats, rowboats and other small watercraft since he was a child, to try to fly ...

As The Sign Painter implies, Ansis stands for decency and loyalty at a time when such qualities were in short supply, not only in Latvia but in the rest of Nazi-occupied Europe.

Sign Painters, published by Princeton Architectural Press, features the painters in their own words and incredibly bold images, describing how they came to this profession and how things have changed.

A young St. Paul craftsman keeps alive the family tradition of sign painting (yes, such a job still exists).