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Barbershop sign art: painted head row, plywood board

Barbershop signs — A plywood board painted with a grid of heads, three rows of four, each head and shoulders seen from a different angle with a different cut, a plain painted banner band across the top and a painted margin all round., hand-painted signboard in oil enamel on plywood, flat colour, firm outline, the grain and the nail holes left showing

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Reading 1Sign board
Reading 2Board edge
Reading 3All-over

A West African barber's board is a menu: rows of heads painted on plywood, each cut drawn from a different angle, the shop's own band across the top. Oil or enamel, flat colour, painted in a day or two and hung at the door so nobody has to ask. These nine render a head-row layout across three treatments. Ask for a different layout — a single portrait board, a numbered style chart — and the same painted-board structure carries it.

  • a barbershop signage mockup
  • a gift print for a heritage-conscious buyer
  • a cultural studies handout
  • a poster or wall art print

Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each render is composed at a proportion suited to standard paper sizes, printing clean at A3 or scaling to A4.
Can I get a different layout, like a single portrait board or a style chart?
Yes — the direction field takes any layout, and the same painted-board structure renders it.
Why does each head show a different angle?
Real barbershop boards show a row of cuts so a customer can point to the one they want — this set keeps that catalogue function as its visual structure.
Is this respectful of real barbershop sign traditions?
The set draws on the West African hand-painted barbershop sign tradition's visual technique — a plywood menu board of painted heads — as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific shop's sign.

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