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 ...

Their painting and hand-lettering skills were in demand for decades, until digital technology changed the game.

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 ...

Another resident, August Grinevicius, 34, who lives on one of the streets with a newly painted sign, saw the mystery painter ...

Lester Carey parks his shopping cart full of paint supplies on the neutral ground on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Claiborne Avenue. Carey, dressed in a red shirt tucked into high-waisted ...

“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 ...

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 ...

This is the vision of RoadPrintz, a Cleveland startup that’s spent seven years developing robotic road sign painting technology. Co-founders Wyatt Newman, a former Case Western Reserve University ...

Clark yodels and writes songs in her head as she readies the hundreds of signs on the signature white buildings for the fair ...

Even in a successful city, businesses come and go, often leaving nothing behind but the memories of those who ate and drank there, bought that vendor's goods or paid for its services. When those ...