Sunday, January 8, 2012

Handpaintedtype.com

Discovered this great site/project about preserving hand painted signs in India.

HandpaintedType is a project that is dedicated to preserving the typographic practice of street painters around India. These painters, with the advent of local DTP (Desktop Publishers) shops, are rapidly going out of business with many of them switching to the quicker, cheaper but uglier vinyls. Many painters have given up their practice altogether.
The project involves documenting the typefaces of road side painters across India and digitizing it so that it serves as a resource for present and future generations.








Also, this is a sign I painted recently for someone as part of a trade.

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