User:LPScanlon/Sign painting/Bibliography

Questions

 * Sign Painting should probably be a sub-topic of Sign Making. It's one way of making signs.  Sign writer and Sign Painting really shouldn't be two separate articles - there's too much overlap.  Not sure how to resolve at this time.

Bibliography for Sign painting and/or Signwriter

 * Cianci and Schutt discuss the use of digital tools in an archival project focused on preserving painted advertising signs. The project is in Melbourne, Australia. There are several mentions of "sign writers" and sign painters.  There is some historical information that would be useful for an article on sign writers or sign painters.  The article is peer reviewed and appeared in the academic journal, Archives Manuscripts.


 * This article published in Artes de Mexico, which has many authors, discusses sign painting in Mexico. It frames sign painting as a type of mural painting.  There is discussion of sign painting or sign writing processes and history.  The word "sign writer" is used at least twice.  The article is peer-reviewed and labeled as scholarly in the JSTOR database.


 * The book Sign Painters by Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, contains interviews with contemporary American sign painters. Sign Painters is also a documentary where the interviews go more in depth.
 * This article from ArtForum International on an exhibition of sign painters in San Francisco
 * This visual essay from the AIGA Raleigh website has several documentaries that discuss sign painting - the contemporary state of the profession and it's history. AIGA is the professional association for designers.
 * This article from the Atlantic discusses the recent increase in demand for hand-painted signs.
 * This NPR article discusses the resurgence of sign painting
 * This website post is a magazine called Craftsmanship Quarterly. It has a strong statement about it's journalism ethics.  The contributors are listed with access to their previous writing and professional competence.  The article itself offers a lot of great information about the history of sign painting.

From Anna Simon:

 * This book segment recounts a lot of information about the history of US sign making industry (including some sign painting) and how the goverment was considering preservation of signs. But it's a little hard to link to - limited access, may be behind a paywall, not sure it can be accessed without UW affliation.


 * This book is about how signs transform landscapes across America and the types of signs that exist, mostly from 20th c. forward.
 * This book is about signs created by a specific company - the Zeon Corporation - in the American Southwest. Not exactly painting, mostly more complex fabricated signs.  The book appears based on drawings made by the company - plans for the signs.  Really cool drawings for the signs!!!