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David Barnett is the co-founder of Noble Signs and the director of the New York Sign Museum, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and celebrating the city’s rich signage traditions. With over a decade of experience designing hand-painted signs in classic New York styles, Barnett has become a leading advocate for the preservation of vernacular signage and the human stories embedded in the city’s visual landscape. Through the museum, he documents, studies, and shares these signs, emphasizing their role as both design artifacts and vessels of collective memory. His work bridges craft, design history, and cultural preservation, highlighting the ways handmade signage shapes the identity and soul of New York City.

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