Honest Ed’s on Torontoist
Torontoist posted a nice article about Wayne Reuben and a man named Douglas (pictured above) – two guys who hand paint the signs at Honest Ed’s department store in Toronto.
There is another gentleman, sitting on a stool, bent over a drafting table, finishing the sentence “As Advertised…” Wayne introduces him as Douglas. He’s been here twelve years and he and Wayne make up the store’s signs department. Each department of the store—menswear, groceries, etc.,—used to have its own team of sign makers, Wayne tells me, but now their ranks have dwindled down to two. It used to be that every sign hanging in every storefront was painted… “It’s a dying practice,” Wayne says. “Honest Ed’s is really the only store that does it anymore.”
via The Ministry of Type. Also, it’s worth having a look at this one up close
