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Sign Gallery 5
The latest edition of Signs of the Times sign contest winners.

Sign Graphics
400 images of graphic identity, interior and urban graphics.

Channel Letter Sign Sales Handbook
Expand your business to include selling channel letter signs.

Sign Contractors Pricing Guide
National averages of retail prices for commercial signs.

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Vermont Roadside Mural Still Stands
Bellows Falls� handpainted barn mural withstands legislative scrutiny.

The Vermont legislature has agreed that handpainted murals on barns, as long as they’re not visible from an interstate, are painted on structures more than 25 years old and are part of a designated downtown program (and are within three miles of that area), don’t violate the strict state laws that govern road signs. Vermont, Maine, Hawaii and Alaska ban billboards. Tourists and residents support the stringent rules, which aim to preve . . . » MORE

Justice, Sandwich-board Style
A judge makes law-breakers spread some love.

Two feuding Michigan men have such difficulty being neighborly that a judge had to intervene with some unorthodox tactics. For violating nuisance ordinances and disturbing the peace, which violated their probation for earlier misdeeds, the men were sentenced to spend 250 community-service hours pacing opposite stretches of sidewalk, sporting sandwich-board signs that urged people to “Love thy neighbor.” This was after the men had serv . . . » MORE

Some artists brighten our lives. And, some don�t.
Artists John Alvin, Viktor Schreckengost and Boyd Coddington

She was a fine-art student, “a painter,” she said, who worked in acrylics on canvas. I, then, was a young-at-heart design student. This was, oh, 1980 or so, at the University of Colorado campus at Boulder. She was pretty, petite, sea-green eyes and wheat-colored hair, tied back with a leather strand. I remember turquoise rings on her fingers, silver bracelets on elfin wrists. I said I’d like to see her paintings. “Are you . . . » MORE

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