Tod, It's fantastic that you and ST believe that the best way to observe the 100th is with a Letterheads Meeting: I'm certain it will be just one of the many things that'll be going on to commemorate this Historically unique event. We'll all be there! The '94 meet was indeed one of the all-time grea...

Bob, It was great to read your post! Between your request for basics and Mike and Danny's reminder to contribute more, I'll get off my keister and see if I can figure out how to submit some pictures here. That goes for the letter construction and spacing stuff, too---though it's often easier to demo...

A Tenth-or-so re-read of Charlie Thames' Autobiographical story in AMAL, (gathered for the enduring benefit of all---word-for-word--by Doc Welty) makes apparent the plain-dirt facts of the matter, and stated more eloquently than anybody I've run into lately. A visceral passion, embedded in hand,brai...

Join the club, Jeff! You are now a member of the true fraternity. It seems like the ones you break are in direct proportion to how much heart and soul you've got tied up in 'em. Rose and I were two weeks deep into our large Tivoli beer piece in 1985...A Six by Eight-foot lunker--and 3/8" thick,...

How soon the conversation becomes about the justifications for using typeset vinyl. Of course, it's not the medium, but the letters themselves that are the problem. Leslie Cabarga has published a great new book,(chock-full 'o pictures and plates) called, "The Lettering and Graphic Design of F.G...

I am happy to know the site exists, though my thrill at discovering it is ,frankly,tempered a bit upon my first perusal. In my city, we have large neighborhoods filling up with recent immigrants. The business owners in those areas, (themselves new residents) spend virtually no money on signs: what t...