The numeraio Pasquale De Stefano’s handmade market signs are a dying breed of everyday beauty in a baroque city.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- After seeing the iconic "Be Someone" sign painted over several times, the state is working toward putting an end to it. The artist who more recently altered the sign to say ...

The book from Letterform Archive celebrates the vivacity of French sign painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OLD SACRAMENTO — A sign that had been in Old ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- If you live in Houston, you know the "Be Someone" bridge on I-45. The bridge and its message have been painted over several times, but after an artist was charged with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JORDAN – City planners are looking to regulate painted commercial signage in downtown Jordan as city officials face a gallery of deteriorated and painted-over works downtown. Murals and painted ...

Even in a successful city, businesses come and go, often leaving nothing behind but the memories of those who ate and drank there, bought that vendor's goods or paid for its services. When those ...