Sign Painters Arts & Culture as well as the strength

as well as the strength and resilience which they had to muster to adapt to new realities

The "Up Close" section includes works by Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office

The exhibition was a collaboration between Whitechapel Gallery and Bildmuseet

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and concludes with an essay from the museum's architect

Sign Painters Arts & Culture as well as the strength"There was a time, as recently as the 1980s, when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards and even street signs were all hand lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno fuelled promise of the quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer designed, die cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our visual landscape.