Icy Signs...

Yesterday while we did a bit of a food shop at Brooklyn Fare I went round the corner to try and find a place called Icy Signs...

I'd read a bit about it online, it was a project that Steve Powers/ESPO (the bloke who did that big Love Letter To Brooklyn work all over that car park) was involved in. It was a big gallery space where they were showing (and selling) lots of hand painted signs by Steve Powers and some other people.

Unfortunately it was a one night thing, back in December - so I was just a wee bit late. But there were still  some hand-painted signs up in the windows and some of them had fallen down, leaving just enough space to peer inside.

Inside the huge space were lots more signs and some big spray painted murals - it looked like a working studio space - but apparently the unit's empty and up for rent...?

I love old hand-painted signage - stuff more like the 'icy signs' rather than all the other ones in the windows. It's great walking around Brooklyn, especially down Myrtle Avenue because quite a few shops still have hand-painted signs rather than the big computerized plastic jobbies.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to paint type like that!