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.

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 ...

Even in an age of emoji, when people revel in communicating online using a shared set of colorful icons, it makes sense that there are still those who are able to eke out a living painting signs for ...

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 ...

For more than seven decades, 90-year-old Ell Sheckles has been painting signs in East Tennessee. Longtime Knoxvillians might have seen his hand-painted billboards over the years, but vinyl wrapping ...

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 ...

The Hobbs Battery advertisement, a century-old sign in Orange, was restored last week, after sitting covered with graffiti for about a year. Frustrated no action had been taken to restore the sign on ...

Before he sets to work, before the first of what will be a thousand brushstrokes, each one fluid and articulated and occupying the space between artwork and industry, the sign painter wants you to ...

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 ...

BUSISSNE. SHAYNA: I SAW THE SIGN. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A SIGN, THAT SAID. SEYMOUR’S ICE CREAM STOPPED SELLING TREATS IN THE EARLY TO THOUSANDS BUT IT’S BUDIL TOWARD --BILLBOARD STILL STANDS. CLASSIC ...