Welcome to the American Sign Museum.  See and hear about museum founder Tod Swormstedt’s vision for the American Sign Museum as you tour the American Sign Museum of today.  Located at Essex Studios in Walnut Hills.
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What’s Goin On at the American Sign Museum’s new home.  Here is a quick glimpse of progress on our new home in Camp Washington. The restoration shop and neon sign shop, Neonworks, are fully operational. The Mail Pouch wall is up, and Genie #2 is in place at the entrance. Progress will continue as funding becomes available. Watch it on YouTube

Carpeteria Genie #2 makes his way to his new home.  After being restored and stored at the Glass Hand’s shop, it’s time to make the trip to the American Sign Museum’s new home in Camp Washington.  The big bulky lug – no, not Tod, the genie! That’s him in the picture suspended from the boom – would have been a handful on a normal day, but add the fact that it was a snowy, frigid winter’s day…  Watch it on YouTube

Carpeteria Genie #2 gets installed at the new site. The good news?  It wasn’t snowing. The bad news? It was raining. No matter to the heroes of United-Maier Sign Company.  We’re really happy to have Genie #2 home. Watch the United-Maier sign guys prepare Genie 2, then lift and place him on his pedestal in front of the entrance. Watch it on YouTube

Installing the Mail Pouch Sign. From a barn in Indiana, this sign was disassembled, transported, then reassembled at the museum’s new site. If you’re from the heartland, you know these signs. The video is a simple time lapse of the installation. Watch for an expanded version, including footage from an interview with renowned Mail Pouch signpainter, Harley Warrick. Purchase his book, The Barn Painter, at the museum store Watch it on Vimeo
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The American Sign Museum helps make the point.  Jim Stengel, former P&G Global Marketing Officer effectively uses the backdrop of the American Sign Museum to talk remotely to attendees of the Google TV Ads Summit (January, 2009) about the future of advertising and Google TV Ads.  Nice use of the venue.
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Fox 19 visits the American Sign Museum’s future home in the Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati. Fox reporter Meghan Mongillo learns about the art and craft of neon signs from the resident Neonworks tube benders Tom Wartman and Greg Pond. Watch it on YouTube

Popular band Seabird films their video ‘Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful’ in Cincinnati and features the American Sign Museum’s sign garden.  Yes, signs are beautiful too.  See the video here. Watch it on YouTube

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. This documentary by Danny Cooke shows us David at work, the techniques he uses, and his respect for those who went before him, including Rick Glawson, an icon and granddaddy of preserving the craft – as well as a founding trustee of the American Sign Museum.
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Up There. Part of the Ritual Project sponsored by Stella Artois, this wonderful slice of big wall signpainting features signpainters from Sky High Murals in New York.  A delight to watch and a reverent look at an endangered art.
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The Museum of Neon Art demonstrates making opal glass letters and screen printing sign faces as they restore two vintage electric signs loaned by the American Sign Museum for a project funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant.  Watch it on YouTube