This story starts with an old suitcase. And a sign painter who had, in his own words, "the audacity to try." Koy Suntichotinun, who goes by Koy Sun, wanted to do something different and make a change, ...

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“Ghost signs” are all over this city’s walls, advertising businesses of yesteryear in vanishing paint. But some of the same businesses behind those weathered signs are hardly faded. You just wouldn’t ...

Joseph Giampino can’t find any emerald-green paint. Half-pint cans of 1 Shot lettering enamel paint are stacked in every corner of his Maywood Road studio, bursting at the seams alongside tool ...

Sharon and I were driving down Eisenhower B​o​ulevard (I guess it​’s a “b​o​ulevard”) and I spotted a commercial van, plastered from bumper to bumper with signs and graphics, all computer ...

As recently as the 1980s, when someone needed a storefront, mural, banner, billboard, or street sign, the first person he would call was a sign painter, a skilled tradesman who would do the work by ...

Rey Giese spent three hours on a ladder painting the sign at a local tattoo shop this month. His weathered hand expertly held a paintbrush and drew the lines onto the glass window. He’s brought his ...

Another resident, August Grinevicius, 34, who lives on one of the streets with a newly painted sign, saw the mystery painter on a ladder outside his neighbour's house. He said: "He smiled to me and I ...

With a swift and steady hand, Ruben Marcilla is painting a 3-foot-tall “T.” The “T” is white, and Marcilla is cutting crisp lines around it in teal. When he’s done he moves on to “H,” then “E” and an ...