Settle In for Your Seasonal Viewing from BLAG

Six hours of talks, interviews, studio visits, and demonstrations from contributors to BLAG 05.

By Better Letters • 19 Dec 2024

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Array of nine pictures with sign painting and lettering themes.

The nine recordings from the BLAG Meet event on 9 November 2024.

Yet again, there's a distinct lack of sign painting content in the seasonal TV schedules. But fear not; BLAG is here to fill the void with the recordings from BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 05...

BLAG Meet is a free online event that gives you the opportunity to meet and hear from contributors to each issue of the magazine.

Below you can catch up with the recordings from BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 05, which took place on Saturday, 9 November 2024. Thank you to all the contributors and attendees that took part across the day.

Visit bl.ag/meet for details of the next BLAG Meet on Saturday, 26 April, and to access to recordings from other events in this series.

Inside BLAG 05

These videos go a bit deeper into a selection of the articles and features in BLAG 05, and there's even more in the issue's digital companion, with bonus videos, documents, and additional images.

What’s Inside Issue 05 of BLAG (Better Letters Magazine)?

Between the covers of the adventures in sign painting from Issue 05 of BLAG (Better Letters Magazine)

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

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

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The Sessions

The recordings from the following sessions can be viewed below in order of appearance.

Alice Mazzilli challenging the idea of 'bad' handwriting, and framing this within her Interowriting concept.
Henrik and Pontus from Sthlm Signs walking through their recent large-scale sign and scenery work for Lolo Co.'s office, giving insights into the process from inspiration to execution.
Derek McDonald talking about his return to full-time work at Golden West Sign Arts following his extended adventures in sign painting at Disneyland.
Jess Marsh Wissemann of Hired Hand Signs sharing a selection of projects where she has thought outside the box and taken her sign designs in new directions by getting creative with shapes, dimensions, and the use of novel materials.
Noel B. Weber sharing work and stories from his 50-year career in signs, which has run in parallel with the Letterheads movement.
Roger Warsop at Retroline Signs on growing up with signwriting, and his experience of learning the craft in Australia, defying the advance of printing technology, hosting the recent Letterheads meet, and his thoughts on the future of hand-painted signs.
Stephen Coles at Letterform Archive introducing the prolific and diverse output of Michael Doret, with a focus on his process and what makes him an interesting lettering artist. Includes a look at the new book, Growing Up in Alphabet City.
Gustavo Ferrari expanding on his how-to for painting the horses of Fileteado Porteño.
BLAG editor Sam Roberts sharing the simple technology of RSS as an alternative way to follow eachother outside of mainstream social media, with reference to the Dapper Signs blog.

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The Recordings

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