Issue 02 of BLAG Magazine: Adventures in sign painting craft, community, and culture is available to read digitally via bl.ag/backissues. It is sold out in hard copy.
Contents
Ye Olde Sign Shoppe
Bideford's prize-winning sign painter Bertram Hamlyn.
Ghost Sign Corner
Newman's have removed in Melbourne, Australia.
Letters
Books on the history of sign painting, and advice for keeping ants out of your brushes.
On the Brush
Working at speed, fan art, and a difficult surface among the sign painting and lettering projects from around the world.
Inside Letterform Archive
Profiling French sign painter portfolios from the turn of the twentieth century.
Land of the Rising Signs
Meet the sign painters from Japan.
‘Rotulismo’
Snapping the sign painters of Mexico.
Lettering Location
God's Own Junkyard in East London.
Alphabet
'Freestyle' by Rob Cooper.
Renegade Writing
Faux fascias from This is My Costume.
Floored in Chicago
Japanese renderings of Koi Carp inspire a mural underfoot.
Interowriting
What came first, reading or writing?
Letterheads
Meets in Helsinki and West Wycombe.
Walldogging
Painting 15 murals in The Dalles, Oregon.
Secrets of Fileteado Porteño
Flags of all nations are given the fileteado treatment.
Book Club
Letters in the Amazonian river system, zines of note, and more inspiring published material.
How to Business
Know your worth, and price it fairly.
Sundries
Wise words, cartoons, a new Latin alphabet, and more bits and bobs.
bl.ag online
The latest from the BLAG website.
Thanks
Contributors, sponsors, and patrons.
