BLAG Meet
BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 06 is an opportunity to meet contributors to BLAG 06, with a mixture of talks, interviews, studio visits, and demonstrations. It starts at 4pm London time on Saturday, 26 April, and will last about five hours.
It's free to register, and session details can be found below.
BLAG 06 is the latest issue of Better Letters Magazine, and ships to all new members around the world.
Join today for your copy of our latest adventures in sign painting.
Sessions
The following start times are for London, with the two buttons below allowing you to view localised timings as an online document or a downloadable PDF.
These are all approximate/subject to change, so please log on early if you are tuning in for a specific session.
Describing Signs
16:00 London Time
Join Pooja Saxena on her quest to learn and devise the language to describe letterforms on India’s vibrant signage.
Crickx Research Group
16:15 London Time
Meet some of the team behind the Publi Fluor book, and learn about their investigations into the typographic lettering of Crystal Crickx.
Magic on Main Street
16:30 London Time
Get Behind the scenes and meet the craftspeople involved in the recent Main Street extension project at the American Sign Museum. (And be sure to pre-order the museum's forthcoming book!)
Digital Ghost Sign Hunting
17:00 London Time
Learn how Kasey Smith uses digital tools to find and view old ghost signs.
Introducing Brian Walker
17:45 London Time
Be the first to hear about a long-overdue fifth film in the 'When Better Letters Met' series.
The Spanish Sign Painting Story
18:00 London Time
Take a trip through the three eras of Spanish sign painting history with Nico Barrios.
Signs for Film
18:30 London Time
Get the inside track on creating signs for film and commercial applications with Rick Janzen.
The Complete Commercial Artist
19:00 London Time
Travel back to late 1920s Japan with Stephen Coles at Letterform Archive as he takes you deeper into the 24 volumes of The Complete Commercial Artist.
Inside Jay Smith's Studio
19:30 London Time
Take a look around the Idaho studio of Jay Smith, including some of the special new additions to his reference library.
In Conversation with Elaine Wallis
20:00 London Time
Join Canada's Elaine Wallis on her adventures in sign painting, from lettering showcards with a butchery as backdrop to painting murals at the American Sign Museum.
The Dragons of Fileteado
20:45 London Time
Watch Gustavo Ferrari paint a dragon in the Fileteado Porteño style.
Sign Painting Meets Letterpress Printing
21:15 London Time
Take a tour of Auckland's Laser Foil Letterpress studio as Erno Hajo guides you through the process of creating his award-winning business cards.
Join us on Saturday, 26 April from 16:00 London time for BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 06.
Recordings
Recordings from BLAG Meet events are made available where presenters give permission, so the only way to be sure of seeing a session is to attend live.
Here are the recordings from previous events.
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