Damon Styer took ownership of New Bohemia Signs in 1999, after an abbreviated apprenticeship-by-telephone. He derives the greatest pleasure in his work from providing a place for young artists to learn the rules and tools for developing an efficient brush lettering practice they can carry into their future endeavors. New Bohemia Signs, in San Francisco, has been producing exclusively hand-painted signs, in enamel and gold leaf, since 1993.