Month: March 2012
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Mapping San Francisco’s Ghostsigns
This project [Link expired] is seeking to create a comprehensive google map of ghostsigns in San Francisco. It is run by Kasey Smith of the Perception Filter blog (recommended) and has already made significant progress. Many of the stories surrounding the documented signs are published on the blog, including the reveal of the one pictured […]
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Frank Jump leads a guided tour of Greenpoint, New York
Frank Jump led this tour last week to raise awareness of the ‘fading ads’ in this part of New York. I was a bit slow off the mark to preview it but fortunately Jeremiah at Fading New York did just that and used the opportunity to ask Frank a few questions about his passion for […]
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Parkinsons Pills signs from across the UK: ‘They will buck you up’!
This is a great set of photos for the Parkinsons Pills brand from a site dedicated to the company. A couple of these appear in the archive but the others are new to me, including one where the photographer claims to have got bored part way through restoring it. A follow up post reveals this […]
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Before the secret lemonade drinker there was this Willesden Ghostsign
Another great discovery and background research from Sebastien here for a brand whose most memorable advertising was probably this:
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Lovely painted wall in Sydney absinthe bar
Spotted on the BBC.
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Four layers of Dubonnet palimpsest
Great discovery here from Sebastien in which he has identified four signs for the same brand vying for position on the same wall. There’s a great gallery of French ghost signs here (Dubonnet here) and my posts on the country are here with additional photos in this Flickr set.