John Downer is a sign painter that I heard of from the Creative Review magazine, he paints signs for all different things from advertising on posters to shop windows. I really like this work as he uses a lot of typography and experimentation with it, in this day and age not a lot of signs are painted by hand but digitally printed so this is a change for the better.
His work is very neat and crisp and he usually uses more than one font type within his posters, he mainly uses his own types of fonts that he has created but also as they are hand painted they wont ever be the same as they are hand painted. A lot of his work is colourful and manipulates his designs to make certain sections/words to stand out using colours, he also uses plain black and white and that can look interesting and different and although plain in colour it can be eye catching as a lot of poster include colour.
Overall I really like his work and his hand painting techniques, he is a very skilful painter and is good at his style of work.
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