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Sign Artist

Here is a great video about an artist keeping the style and tradition of had made high quality signs alive. It's great to see that someone is till making signs like this. Every where you look these days signs are all the same boring thing one after another. The signs he makes are all amazing and one of a kind. Check out the video.

David A Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Sign-Writing and Glass gilding circles, with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors.

In this short documentary, we reveal behind the scenes work, techniques and visions that Dave uses when carrying out his passion as a glass embosser - One of the few remaining traditional UK glass artists.

See David's Elaborate Victorian Style Mirror completed here: http://www.vimeo.com/25587369

Many thanks to Ada Cole for subtitling the film, Subtitles available here: http://goo.gl/9sORF

David A Smith
www.davidadriansmith.com

A Film by Danny Cooke
www.dannycooke.co.uk

Soundtrack by Tony Higgins (Junior85)
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/junior85/