Profile: Max Clark

 

Max Clark is a signpainter/designer/musician with 45 years in the trade. A career that began with hand lettering and screen printing now keeps him busy designing, doing digital prints, cut vinyl and making 3D signage. We talked about his work and his music in a conversation—interspersed with plenty of laughing:

When I first started my business in 1980, I did all the usual commercial sign work including a lot of hand-lettered signs. I lettered a considerable amount of tents for a manufacturing company and also painted huge banners for hot air balloons. I did a large number of these for many years. You never really know what you’re going to get into when in the sign business.