Every morning, William Rosser starts his day painting signs. The 77-year-old butcher and owner of Wild Woody's Happy Foods on 31st Street and Myrtle Avenue in Kansas City, Mo., has been painting ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - A trip to Sokolowski's University Inn is steeped in the past - for the most part. The 1920s James Beard Award-winning restaurant in Tremont is as old-school as it gets. There's a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

You probably don't know his name, but the work of Shawn Gilheeney is all around you in Rhode Island, summoning you into restaurants. He is an artist and the creative force behind many business signs, ...

Artist Shawn Gilheeney shares how he became Providence's go-to sign painter. Shawn Gilheeney, known for his sign painting business Providence Painted Signs, has left his mark across all of Providence ...

The man behind many of Chicago's most recognizable hand-painted signs doesn't call his trade a job. Ches Perry says his custom-made artworks are “just a hobby,” even after more than 45 years designing ...

Hidden on the walls of old buildings scattered across Louisville are fading remnants of the city’s past. They’re called “ghost signs,” and they’re typically hand-painted advertisements of bygone ...

Study the buildings flanking London’s older streets closely and you’ll see one soon enough: an old painted sign that, once bright and eye-catching, is now faded into the masonry, the name of the ...