My Leicestershire Digital Archive
Colin Hyde from the Centre for Urban History at Leicester University sent me an email with a fascinating link today. It is to a project he … Read more
Related Work
Posts about other projects and initiatives in areas related to ghostsigns such as new hand painted signs, lettering, typography and text on buildings.
London Mural Preservation Society
Garden Mural, Earlham Street, Stephen Pusey 1977 [Photo courtesy of London Mural Preservation Society] At last week’s Sign Design Society talk I met Ruth who … Read more
UP THERE from the Ritual Project
Readers of the blog may recall my discussions of the collaboration between Colossal Media and Stella Artois a.k.a. ‘The Ritual Project‘. This was all set … Read more
Preserve NZ
The latest contributions to the Preserve project in New Zealand have just been uploaded including this great photo of the famous Kings Cross ‘Scales, Weights … Read more
Martin Wilson
Fascinating work from Martin Wilson discovered in Ultrabold (see previous pieces on ghostsigns here and here). Ultrabold is the quarterly journal of the St Bride … Read more
Rage Factor
This campaign now has hand painted signs to support it! The objective is to ‘steal’ the Christmas number one spot from this year’s X-Factor winner … Read more
Black Cat Audio
Fascinating audio giving some history behind the Black Cat sign on Dingley Road, EC1. This includes the observation that the growth of the cigarette industry … Read more
Ritual Project Update
The project is into its final few days and there are some interesting snippets of the painters at work, both close up and in time … Read more
Jo Tomkins
Earlier this year Jo Tomkins, then a student from Ravensbourne College, got in touch for some advice on her graphic design project focused on Stoke … Read more
Concord Painting
The ever prolific Frank Jump who blogs on ghostsigns over in New York has uncovered a nice piece of history having been contacted by a … Read more
Colossal Media & Gentrification
Picked this up over on psfk where they reckon this is an ad for Colossal Media. The observations on gentrification could easily apply in London … Read more
Herbrand Street ‘Mural’
Biking home along the now congested cycle lanes in Bloomsbury I couldn’t help noticing this huge mural on the side of the terrace at the … Read more
John Henstock
I got in touch with John Henstock recently as he’d started uploading some of his pictures on Flickr. Here’s one example from Brixton for Our … Read more
London Street Scenes
Bob just told me about his site London Street Scenes [update: website no longer available] where a good collection of mainly London ghost signs can be seen. … Read more
Faded London
If you like the sort of stuff found on this blog you will certainly also be interested in the work of Yelfy over at Faded … Read more
Collosal Media Live
This is a great short film made by the team at Collosal Media and gives a real insight into some of the techniques used to … Read more
Martin Thompson
Martin Thompson is an artist who has done a series of pieces based on his photography of predominantly London Ghost Signs. He calls them “urban … Read more
Colossal Media
The art of large scale sign writing lives on in New York, USA through the work of Colossal Media A full gallery of their work … Read more