{"id":117,"date":"2015-09-20T00:42:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T00:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2016-05-20T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T10:28:23","slug":"newbohemiasigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/newbohemiasigns\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bohemia, SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>After meeting the owner <strong>Damon Styer<\/strong> at an AIGA meeting in San Francisco, we had a chance to visit his signpainting shop <strong>New Bohemia Signs<\/strong> &#8211; one of the\u00a0longest running sign shop in San Francisco, dealing exclusively in hand painted signs.<br \/>\nLocated in\u00a0<em>281 9th Street in\u00a0<\/em>the South of Market neighborood,\u00a0New Bohemia is a beautiful sight for any letterform lover, with its wall covered in commercial signs side by side with pieces that were created by Damon for its own art shows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-118 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem01.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem01.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem01-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem01-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem03.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem03.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem03-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem03-1024x662.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem08.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem08.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem08-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem08-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Damon Styer, owner of New Bohemia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-120 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem02a.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem02a.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem02a-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem02a-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem06.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem06.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem06-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem06-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem13.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem13.jpg 1144w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem13-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem13-1024x691.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem05.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem05.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem05-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem05-1024x700.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem12.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem12.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem12-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem12-1024x647.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-129\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem11.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem11.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem11-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<em>&#8220;Practice is a part of it, but so is having good supplies, the right brushes, a smooth enough board, and paint that&#8217;s going to coat in one shot&#8221; &#8211; Damon Styer, quoted in the book Sign Painters by Faythe Levine &amp; Sam Macon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-132 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem14.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem14.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem14-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem14-1024x725.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem10.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem10.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem10-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem10-1024x688.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem09.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem09.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem09-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem09-1024x679.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><em>New Bohemia\u00a0silkscreen\u00a0prints with type\u00a0model sheets.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem07.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem07.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem07-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem07-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122\" src=\"http:\/\/zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem04.jpg\" alt=\"NEW BOHEMIA SIGNS\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem04.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/boem04-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newbohemiasigns.com\/\"><em>New Bohemia Website<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After meeting the owner Damon Styer at an AIGA meeting in San Francisco, we had a chance to visit his signpainting shop New Bohemia Signs &#8211; one of the\u00a0longest running sign shop in San Francisco, dealing exclusively in hand painted signs. Located in\u00a0281 9th Street in\u00a0the South of Market neighborood,\u00a0New Bohemia is a beautiful sight for any letterform lover, with its wall covered in commercial signs side by side with pieces that were created by Damon for its own art shows. Damon Styer, owner of New Bohemia. \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;Practice is&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/newbohemiasigns\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studio-visits","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.zetafonts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}