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Friday, March 31, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Sign painter creative in changes
By TIMOTHY TANKARD
Staff Writer
Keeping up with a growing university and the growing number of thieves that seem to have come with it has forced James Buse, KU sign painter, to be creative.
"When I first started here in 1949, we'd out maybe two signs a day and that was enough," Bussie says, pushing back his work with a smile. "We've clustered Operations workshop.
He eventually settles for a bench to lean against and pluck a lean brown cigarette.
"Every sign had to be hand-painted, you see," he says, "but now I use a silkscreen and can put out up to fifty 'em in one day."
"Of course, it helps if they are all of the same design," he adds.
And many of them are of the same design because the University has been making major cosmetic changes in the last four years. Since then a new breed of standardized sign has been used—colorful yet functional. These signs include the powder blue street markers or the new universal sign symbols.
THE NEW SIGNS were designed by the university's Exterior Graphics Committee with the contracted aid of a Houston-based commercial design company.
common cordless equipment.
Bussie said the colorful signs apparently looked so good to some people that they like to have one in their room.
"There was a time about two years ago when we had 78 stolen in two months," he
Alton Thomas, landscaping architect and chairman of the graphics committee, said that a stolen street sign cost around $25 to replace.
One special problem area is at 14th Street and Alumni Place, where people keep
James Busse
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stealing or destroying the two one-way signs.
"I'll just keep putting them back up. It really pays money," he says shrugging his shoulders.
BUSSE DOESN'T worry about it.
"Some nights we'll get hit for four or five signs and then not lose another one in quite awhile. There's not much we can do about it," he says.
However, a KU police officer said that as tar as be knew the problem was a sporadic on.
"We had six of those one-way rippes off
two days once." Hasee says of
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"Before I took over the sign painting, they had a man who was truly an art painting these things," Busse recalls. "He put his personal touch on every one."
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But after the artist left in the mid-50's, Busse taught himself to silkscreen in order to meet growing demands. He can put together a silkscreen in less than a day.
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To paint a sign he merely lays the silkscreen on the plate, squeezes on the paint and then sprinkles on some finely ground glass beads for the lettering to be
He used to design the signs himself, but now he merely refers to a booklet given to him by the graphics committee for the proper design.
Thomas said limited funding had been the reason it has taken so long to put up the new building.
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"Lacey it it was turned off, or I would have been," he laughs, "fried."
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Besides painting signs Busse usually has to out them up.
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The larger signs are not painted by Busee but custom-ordered from a manufacturing company.
big one can run into the hundreds of dollars."
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