Comments on: I can’t read your protest sign! (Or GA banner!) http://boyinthebands.com/archives/i-cant-read-your-protest-sign-or-ga-banner/ Scott Wells on the practice of Christian faith Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:35:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Boy in the bands » Blog Archive » If you’re demonstrating, carry a sign you can read http://boyinthebands.com/archives/i-cant-read-your-protest-sign-or-ga-banner/#comment-19652 Boy in the bands » Blog Archive » If you’re demonstrating, carry a sign you can read Sun, 14 May 2006 14:03:06 +0000 http://www.universalistchurch.net/boyinthebands/archives/i-cant-read-your-protest-sign-or-ga-banner/#comment-19652 [...] I’ve gone off on illegible demonstration signs and General Assembly banners before (see the old article for other resource links) but reading the headline immigration story at UUA.org today reminds me how miserable the state of this essential democratic handicraft is. Scrawling a Sharpie on poster board doesn’t cut it. On the other hand, perhaps people are learning to dress for demonstrations again. Deo gratia! So I’m pointing back to lessons Speedball has for download. Obviously it is to pimp their wares, but that’s fine. I used to go to that site quite a bit and it has been greatly improved. Read up on hand lettering — like those signs you used to see in grocery stores; am I showing my age? — and screen printing. Good PDF downloads of classic guides. Grab them. [...] […] I’ve gone off on illegible demonstration signs and General Assembly banners before (see the old article for other resource links) but reading the headline immigration story at UUA.org today reminds me how miserable the state of this essential democratic handicraft is. Scrawling a Sharpie on poster board doesn’t cut it. On the other hand, perhaps people are learning to dress for demonstrations again. Deo gratia! So I’m pointing back to lessons Speedball has for download. Obviously it is to pimp their wares, but that’s fine. I used to go to that site quite a bit and it has been greatly improved. Read up on hand lettering — like those signs you used to see in grocery stores; am I showing my age? — and screen printing. Good PDF downloads of classic guides. Grab them. […]

]]> By: James Field http://boyinthebands.com/archives/i-cant-read-your-protest-sign-or-ga-banner/#comment-12024 James Field Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:35:52 +0000 http://www.universalistchurch.net/boyinthebands/archives/i-cant-read-your-protest-sign-or-ga-banner/#comment-12024 Oh a tear of joy in my eye that someone actually wants to discuss signage.There are nuts and bolts lore about doing such things that have never been transmitted in a systematic way. I'm so glad you mentioned what the San Diego police call the "authorized stick" problem. We never could get them to clearly say what measurements were acceptable they would only tell us that any particular picket was not authorized. I had never seen the muttonhead or the flaming crab until last weekend. They are great. Oh a tear of joy in my eye that someone actually wants to discuss signage.There are nuts and bolts lore about doing such things that have never been transmitted in a systematic way. I’m so glad you mentioned what the San Diego police call the “authorized stick” problem. We never could get them to clearly say what measurements were acceptable they would only tell us that any particular picket was not authorized.

I had never seen the muttonhead or the flaming crab until last weekend. They are great.

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