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Beefcakes recalls childhood memories of Jim Ford’s first “brush” with letters. “I remember going to local shops with my mom, as a kid,” he recalls. “They would have big hand-painted signs in the window, often in neon paint – you couldn’t miss them. Long before I was aware of type, the craft of making these signs intrigued me. Seeing them up close, I realized that a someone had to paint all those words and numbers.”
Many years later, when Ford was digitally painting his own words and numbers, he recalled those old signs, their power of persuasion and their inviting charm. His Beefcakes t ..read more