30 ideas for Dublin City Council.

Idea 6: widen grants to improve shopfronts.

A small scheme to support local businesses and beautify Dublin's streets.

More ideas like it: pidgeon.ie/manifesto

🤓Once you see traditional signage, lettering & #signwriting you wish all shops embraced it. Fill your fascias!

Some lovely examples from Longford & Leitrim❤️🖌️

I’m a little obsessed with this c.1890 shopfront in Tulla, Co. Clare. More info: buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-sear…

Glue chipped glass piece I made, gold gilded with scalloped edges. An technique developed by Rawson & Evans in the USA. Agsigns.ie
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#gluechippedglass
#agsigns
#andrewgreaves

If only more of Dublin's shop fronts had been preserved like this...
Post Office, Usher Quay, Dublin 2015
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@photosofdublin
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IBN-Berlin
The Little Museum of Dublin

A staggering aerial view showing the scale of demolition and rebuilding of the northern ranges of Dublin's Castle's Upper Yard. Sadly, the galleried Chief Secretary's Library and many ancillary old rooms were lost in the push to create new conferencing facilities for EEC events.

Ross F. George, pasteup board for “The Adaptation of Lettering to Advertising Moods” in the Speedball Textbook, date unknown.

See it up close in the Online Archive, along with many more pasteups by Ross F. George: oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lf…

Reviving the art of handprinted gold gilded signage ... one letter at a time ..
Instagram: @ag.signs

#makesignsgreatagain
#lettering
#lettering daily

Bonne rentrée les mouflets !

#rentreedesclasses #ecole s #ecole

Níl an tobar taosctha go fóill! Seo daoibh trí shampla eile de litreoireacht chanta Mhichíl Uí Bhriain ón leabhar dar teideal 'Scéalta na Maighdine Muire' le Brian Ó hUiginn.

Glue chipped glass sign , just finished up earlier today.
Agsigns.ie

The Mandela effect got me today. Situated in Dublin 1, I always assumed this was an old Spiderman movie poster from 20 years ago. In fact its a sculpture to depict the Irish poverty trap. Mind blown! 🤯 Learn more about it below.
dublininquirer.com/2022/06/29/bru…
#art #Spiderman #Dublin

Mosaic tiled, decorative, gold #Gaelic letterforms at O Gealbháin, 21 William Street #Listowel #Kerry #Ireland (Images 1-8 31/07/22)
 
Built c1840, renovated c1920. Image 9 (17/11/2005) from #NIAH Reg No 21400257. Categories of Special Interest: Architectural, Artistic, Social.

Love these old luggage cases, spotted in the Cliff House Hotel in scenic Ardmore #Waterford

One of the nicest pub fronts in Ireland, Downes of #Waterford , established in 1797.

Handpainted signage at Folk in Gorey town.
#handpainted signs #signwriting #signpainting #painting #timelapse #signs #signs ofireland #signs #dublinsignwriter #gorey #wexford #signwriter #signpainter #lettering #typography #irishartist #ireland #handpainted
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Gold gilded & hand painted 'J'
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Gold gilded sign at Two Pups coffee. Water gilded with matte finish centres for a nice eye catching finish.
📸 J.Mallin / Design : Revert.ie
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#goldgildedsign #gilding #goldleaf #goldsign
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The Hole in The Wall, Eyre Street, Galway, Ireland.