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Check out how we went from hand-painting billboard designs to attracting local and national media coverage and clients. Craft Ads is the continuing journey of two artists hand-painting billboards out of their Altadena studio hoping to make ads more unique and tasteful.

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  • LAist
  • The word "VoyageLA" in black stylized font on a white background.
  • NBC 4 Los Angeles logo with a large blue number 4, the NBC peacock in red, orange, yellow, purple, blue, and green, and the words 'LOS ANGELES' in blue underneath.
  • Logo for TastyAd with the word "tasty" in red and "Ad" in black.
  • Pasadena Now logo in black and white.
  • Design with the words "Greetings Tour" in stylized black text and small birds flying above.
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  • A man with glasses resting his head on his hand at a cluttered table, and a woman writing or painting on a large paper, in a studio with supplies and a clock in the background. There is a red Coca-Cola advertisement with a woman in a red dress and bottles of Coca-Cola in the bottom right corner.

    Tasty Ad: The Billboard People

    Reviving a Lost Art Form in Out-Of-Home

    Feature on Craft Ads as a boutique studio focused on hand-painted billboard campaigns, their artistic mission, founders’ background, and why this method creates stronger viewer engagement.

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  • Billboard advertising craft, hand-painted, billboard art, made in Pasadena, with illustrations of parrots.

    LAist/KPCC NPR

    Going Old School With A Twist, Pasadena Company Brings Hand-Painted Billboards to LA

    This article profiles Craft Ads, a Pasadena studio reviving hand-painted billboards. It shows examples of their work in Altadena, explains founders’ goals to make billboards beautiful again, and gives history of traditional billboard painting.

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  • A hand-painted billboard advertising craft ads and billboards in Pasadena, with a mountain range in the background and a church with a cross on the roof.

    NBC4 Los Angeles

    Pasadena Company Creating Hand-Painted Billboards

    Local TV segment highlights Craft Ads’ approach to hand-painted billboards and how the founders bring a unique art form back to outdoor advertising.

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  • Two artists in an art studio working on paintings, smiling at the camera. The studio has large windows, a brick wall, and art supplies on the table.

    VoyageLA

    Meet David Lawrence of Craft Ads Hand-Painted Billboards

    Profile interview with Craft Ads co-founder David Lawrence exploring his journey, studio work, and vision for bringing hand-painted billboards back into modern advertising.

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  • Colorful billboard in California promoting the protection of the Altadena Wild Foothills with the message "Let's Keep Altadena Wild" and a website URL altadenawild.org, set against a backdrop of mountain landscape, trees, and a clear blue sky.

    Greetings Tour

    Altadena WILD Hand Painted Billboard Project by Victor Ving & Craft Ads

    Post about the collaboration between Victor Ving and Craft Ads on the Altadena WILD billboard project, showing creative process and community impact.

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  • Hand Painted Billboard advertising an Altadena High School billboard launch party with colorful text and graphics.

    Pasadena Now

    AltadenaWILD Unveils Community Activist Billboard

    Coverage of a community billboard project by AltadenaWILD with Craft Ads, highlighting local activism and unique painted billboard installations.

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  • A split-screen video call with Sherri Jones on the left and David Lawrence on the right. Sherri is in a room with a colorful floral painting and a window with frosted glass panes behind her, wearing a blue shirt. David is in a room with white and red walls, a wooden door, and a yellow floor lamp, wearing a light blue T-shirt and glasses. The upper part of the image has the text 'even just a little' in white, and the bottom part has their names, 'Sherri Jones' and 'David Lawrence', in white against a watercolor background.

    Even Just A Little Podcast w/ Sherri Jones

    From Billboards to Bravery – Interview with David Lawrence

    Podcast interview with Craft Ads founder discussing the business, hand-painting process, inspiration, and how the company blends art with advertising.

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