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The Taylor Brothers

Custom signs for Northern California since the 1970s

For more than forty years, Tom and Tim Taylor have been painting, lettering, and building custom signs for Bay Area businesses — from neighborhood storefronts to the hand-painted holiday windows CBS News put on the evening news.

Meet the Brothers Find Your City
Tim Taylor standing with arms outstretched in front of a giant pair of hand-painted angel wings on a glass storefront
Tim, with one of his hand-painted window graphics
Our Story

Two Brothers, One Family Business

It started in the 1970s with two teenagers and their first jobs. Tim picked up a brush painting windows as a teen; Tom got his start while working at a record shop. What began as a side project became a calling — and when their mother encouraged the two to team up, a family business was born.

More than forty years later, the Taylor brothers have painted thousands of windows and crafted signs for businesses throughout Concord, Berkeley, San Francisco, and the greater Bay Area. While the industry has turned to templates and franchises, Tim and Tom still believe a sign should be made for the business it represents — designed by hand, with the eye of a craftsman.

That’s why local news has featured their work, and why customers who found them decades ago keep coming back. A digital print can be ordered anywhere. A Taylor brothers sign is made for you.

“Two brothers who work together have the world by the tail.” — the advice from Mom that started it all
Four Decades

The Story So Far

1970s

Tim and Tom pick up their first brushes as teenagers at their first jobs, painting windows on the side.

Early 1980s

Taking their mother’s advice, the brothers team up and begin painting holiday storefront windows across the Bay Area.

1980s–Today

The business grows into full custom signage — storefront signs, murals, vehicle graphics, banners, channel letters, and monument signs.

2022

CBS News Bay Area (KPIX 5) features the brothers and their hand-painted holiday windows on the evening news.

Today

Three shops, one family: serving Concord, Berkeley, and San Francisco.

As Seen on KPIX 5 · CBS News Bay Area

The Craft That Made the Evening News

Every holiday season, the brothers pick up their brushes and turn storefront windows across the Bay Area into hand-painted works of art. CBS News Bay Area featured their work and the fading tradition they refuse to let disappear.

It’s the same craftsmanship, care, and hand-lettered detail they bring to every sign, mural, and banner they make for local businesses year-round.

The Lost Art

Still Painted by Hand

No vinyl. No crane. Just a brush. Watch Tim hand-paint a business sign directly onto brick, stories up on an extension ladder — every letter goes on by hand, the way sign painters have done it for a century.

This is what “custom” actually means. When your sign is painted for your building, it can’t look like anyone else’s.

Featured Projects

Four favorites from four decades of work.

Hand-painted window mural spanning the glass front of a Kaiser hospital building, with spring flowers and the word Kindness

Kaiser Hospital Window Murals

Hand-painted window murals for Kaiser hospital campuses across the Bay Area — hundreds of feet of glass at a time, every foot painted by hand.

Tall hand-painted veterinary sign running down the corner of a brick building, painted directly onto the brick

Painted on Brick

A veterinary sign painted directly onto the building — three stories of brick, lettered by hand from an extension ladder. No panels, no bolts.

Tim Taylor in a straw hat painting the word Kindness by hand on a large window, brush in one hand and paint tray in the other, with hand-painted calla lilies below the lettering

Hand-Painted Lettering

Tim brushing “Kindness” across a wall of glass, letter by letter — no vinyl, no stencils, just a steady hand and forty years of practice.

Hand-painted Summer of Cows window display on the front of the Walnut Creek Chick-fil-A, with a cow mascot and Cow Appreciation Day banner painted across the glass

Chick-fil-A — Cow Appreciation Day

A summer-of-cows theme, painted by hand across the windows of Chick-fil-A’s Walnut Creek restaurant for Cow Appreciation Day. When a national brand wants windows no printer can produce, they call the Taylor brothers.

Storefront Signs · Channel Letters · Monument Signs · Vehicle Wraps & Graphics · Murals · Banners · Window Graphics · Holiday Window Painting

Three Locations

Choose Your City

One family, three shops. Visit the site for the location nearest you.

Contra Costa County

Concord

Concord Signs & Banners — custom signs, banners, and graphics for Concord and the surrounding East Bay.

Visit the Concord site → East Bay

Berkeley

Berkeley Signs & Banners — hand-painted signs, murals, and quality signage for Berkeley businesses.

Visit the Berkeley site → The City

San Francisco

San Francisco Signs & Graphics — innovative signage design and storefront art in the heart of the Bay. Call Tom: (415) 636-5063

Visit the San Francisco site →