BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 05, and More Worldwide Events

BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 05 is your opportunity to meet and hear from contributors to the current instalment of our adventures in sign painting.

This free online event is happening on Saturday, 9 November, and I can't wait to kick off our third marathon day of talks, interviews, demonstrations, and more.

Scheduled sessions include: Interowriting: What Writing Is and Can Be with Alice Mazzilli; Through the Streets of London with Nayab Ahmed; Sthml Signs x Lolo Co. with Pontus Bergman and Henrik Lindquist; The Horses of Fileteado with Gustavo Ferrari; In Conversation with Derek McDonald; Signs Outside the Box with Jess Marsh Wissemann; Still Loving It with Noel B. Weber; The Dapper Signs Blog and RSS Feeds with Sam Roberts; Michael Doret: The Lettering & The Process with Stephen Coles.

The BLAG 05 Digital Companion

'Dapper Diesel' by Joe Coleman in BLAG 05.

BLAG Meet builds on the articles and features inside the latest issue of the magazine, and you can get even deeper into it via the bonus content in the BLAG 05 Digital Companion. This is packed with additional photos, videos, document downloads, and useful links.

The BLAG 05 Digital Companion

Bonus content from the adventures in sign painting in Issue 05 of BLAG (Better Letters Magazine).

BLAG Magazine: Adventures in Sign Painting Craft, Community & Culture •Better Letters

There's more bonus content for BLAGs 02–04 on the back issues page.

Event Listings

Here are some highlights from the events happening online and around the world in the coming months.

Workshops Worldwide

For more forthcoming workshops, check out the providers listed at bl.ag/learn.

• Online: Foundations of Lettering, 2 November
• Portland, Oregon: Sign Design and Layout, 3 November
• Melbourne: Introduction to Sign Painting, 9 November
• Tokyo: Intensive Script & Casual Lettering Workshop, 9 November
• Seattle, Washington: Hand-Painted Signs Workshop, 9 November
• Los Angeles: Script & Casual Sign Painting Workshop, 7–8 December
• New York: Ease Into Script Lettering, 7–8 December
• Tokyo: Beginner and Advanced Sign Painting Workshop, 14/15 December
• Wells, Somerset: Intensive Signwriting Course, 6–10 January
• Glasgow: Beginners Signwriting Workshop, 18–19 January or 1–2 February
• Dublin: Introduction to Signwriting, various dates across 2025

Talking the Talk

• Online/London: Letter Exchange Lecture Programme, dates each month from 13 November to 18 June
• Sant Pere de Ribes, Spain: Honour the Past, Create the Future: Championing Craft in the Digital Age with Sam Roberts
• Online: Tuscans: intriguing questions over this singular ornamental type style with Alejandro Lo Celso, 25 November
• Online/London: Letters from the North Pole with Annie Atkins, 5 December
• San Francisco: Michael Doret Book Launch & Signing (5 December) and Curator Tour: Michael Doret Archive (7 December)

That's a wrap for this latest worldwide events roundup. As always, please send details of your own and others' events to sam@bl.ag.

All good things, Sam

bl.ag / @blag@type.social