Pretty In Pink

My Haley Trike is looking good today, especially against the pink brick outside of LMNO in Fishtown.

Inside the box is a finished fish sign, a 35lb. WolfWise 15.5’ Aluminum Telescoping Ladder, a 28” iron sign bracket and all the tools I’ll need to install onto the side of someone’s home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu0sYQRECkY

Fancy Fish

Hey Everyone, I'm super excited to have finished and hung my latest sign, a royal blue fancy fish all dressed up wearing a black tux with tails and a top hat with a monocle, now tell me that’s not fancy.

This sophisticated sardine also loves books and loves to read, which is why he’s holding a giant stack of them, perhaps that’s just stating the obvious though.

It’s hanging in #Fishtown, outside for everyone to see! Thank’s @KiraNightingale for trusting me and allowing me to hang another piece of art in #Philadelphia I love that it’s out for everyone to see!

#publicart #books #bookworm #bookfish #booklover #sardinerun #sardines #Fishtown #FishtownSigns #fishsign #housesign #housesigns #fishart #Philadelphia #phillyartist

#publicart #fancyfish #tophat #tophat&tails

Fighting Fish!

Finished these two beauties for Phil Migliarese at Balance Studios HQ - Fishtown They look great and definitely add some Fishtown flair.

Coffee House Too

I really love spare parts robots, especially when they're at one of my favorite coffee shops. I'm also very proud to hang this  rainbow sign, it's not just attractive but it helps make visible, the increasing diversity in Fishtown.

Plus Derek, Josh and crew are always cool as shit!

Check them out @ https://www.coffeehouseco.com/

🤖 🎅 delivering #Fishtown 🌈 #Trout.

it's a cold snowy morning here in Fishtown.

Seeing it for the first time in warm sunlight 

Fishtown Jelly

Here’s the latest sign,complete with a hanging Fishtown Rec Center Jellyfish! It’s been great seeing and hearing the reaction of people passing by, just about everyone smiles and almost every little kid giggles and points.

Making A Sign

One of the first steps is cutting a fish out from a piece of wood. For this sign, we were using 3/4” solid Pine. Wood widths can vary depending on the project. If you have a specific piece of wood in mind for a sign we can usually use it.

Here are some hooks I had to customize for a particularly odd fitting.

Here’s one of the earlier whimsical fish signs in progress. This is a mockup to see what the signs would look like with the house number hanging from the bottom instead of being right on the fish.

Here’s a mockup for measurements, placements and sign sizes.

Designing & Finishing A Sign

Drawing transferred to wood board ready for cutting.

Living in Fishtown, looking around one cant help but see all the colors around. I want to have signs that stand out and say Hi!

This is the sketch for a custom Koi Sign. It will hang as to resemble a traditional Japanese Koinobori windsock. Landscapes across Japan are decorated with koinobori from April to early May, in honor of children for a good future and in the hope that they will grow up healthy and strong.

When trying to decide on which type of fish to hang outside this classic rowhome, I didn’t need to look further than their front sidewalk.

Here is a freshly cut wooden fish getting ready for a coat of paint. Look at the holes and you’ll notice the syleized bumpouts.

Now it’s beginning to look like something.

The finished product after three or four coats of polyurethane.

Here are two stylized signs. They’re both approximately 24” long and 10” high.