Contemporary Issues

Screen shot of short film about student art project — This technique of using light to create a layout is actually nothing new. There is a reference to the ‘lantern method’ in a 1929 book called Poster Design by W.G. Raffe. The method, offered up in contrast to the pounce method, is described as: “The […]

Student art project uses light projection technique to layout design ...

This entry was posted in Related Work and tagged Art Contemporary Issues USA Video on June 15, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Hand Painted Type alphabet by Umesh — Perhaps being in Cambodia has sensitised me to the world of Ghostsigns beyond my home shores. Or maybe awareness of the project has encouraged those from around the world to make contact. Whatever it is, I thought it was time for a round-up of what’s […]

Ghostsigns World Tour

This entry was posted in Sign Destinations Signs of Note and tagged Books Canada Cigarettes Colossal Media Contemporary Issues Delhi Event France Frank Jump Hague HandPaintedType India Lettering Marc Combier Modern Brickads Montreal Murals Netherlands New York Omega Oil People Production Restoration Signwriter Street Art Tobacco Tours Turret Umesh USA Van Gogh Video Worldwide on July 21, 2011 by Sam Roberts

Specter street art covers Boyd Pianos ghostsign — sarflondondunc, ever alert to the gradual shifts in our Ghostsigns landscape, alerted me to this new piece of street art positioned on the great gold leaf Boyd Pianos sign on Shacklewell Lane, Hackney. It’s by the Canadian artist Specter and is part of the ‘If […]

Street Art

This entry was posted in Inspired by Signs Sign Preservation and tagged Art Boyd Pianos Contemporary Issues Hackney London Related and Random Street Art on August 11, 2010 by Sam Roberts

Photo: Creative Review Photo: Creative Review Creative Review and a few others have spotted this new outdoor campaign for Anchor Butter. When I first saw the photos I assumed they were genuine hand painted ads but they are actually printed billboards which, in the case […]

Anchor

This entry was posted in Inspired by Signs Signs in Media and tagged Bovril Contemporary Issues Event Modern Brickads People Press Print Related and Random Watneys on August 5, 2010 by Sam Roberts

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 and here are the painters at work spreading the message. If you want to help with the effort then for […]

Rage Factor

This entry was posted in Individual Signs Related Work and tagged Contemporary Issues Modern Brickads Related and Random on December 15, 2009 by Sam Roberts

Signboard for Northern Star Creative — Some photos and film from a visit to Charlton to see Chris of Northern Star Creative at work on a sign for a garage. It was great to see him in action and to hear some of his stories from when he used to run […]

Charlton Signwriting

This entry was posted in Sign Folk Sign Making and tagged Contemporary Issues London People Production Signwriter on December 4, 2009 by Sam Roberts

Stella Artois from the Ritual Project by Colossal Media — I did an interview with the New York project as it reaches its climax. Read it in full here and find out more about their work here.

Chatting with the Ritual Project

This entry was posted in Signs in Media and tagged Colossal Media Contemporary Issues London Modern Brickads Press Ritual Project Signwriter UK USA on December 1, 2009 by Sam Roberts

Ritual Project Stella Artois Close Up — 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 lapse. Here are a few highlights, more here and here. I’d personally like to see some longer clips with perhaps […]

Ritual Project Update

This entry was posted in Individual Signs Related Work and tagged Colossal Media Contemporary Issues London Modern Brickads New York Production Ritual Project Signwriter UK USA Video on November 26, 2009 by Sam Roberts

Stella Artois and Colossal Media are collaborating in New York to use hand painted advertising over 21 days to demonstrate the ‘ritual’ of pouring a glass of Stella. This ritual involves nine steps and by day 11 they’re on step three, mainly due to adverse […]

The Ritual Project

This entry was posted in Individual Signs Related Work and tagged Colossal Media Contemporary Issues London Modern Brickads New York Production Ritual Project Signwriter UK USA Video on November 18, 2009 by Sam Roberts

There’s some pretty cool stuff going on in this showreel from easyweb.fr, a french company doing video light projections onto buildings. Using these for advertising isn’t anything new (remember Gail Porter on the Houses of Parliament for FHM?) but these guys have pushed the format […]

Video Projections

This entry was posted in Off Piste Related Work and tagged Art Contemporary Issues Future Related and Random Video on December 1, 2008 by Sam Roberts

Dean wrote to me following the ban in Sao Paulo to let me know that it is now the politicians in Auckland, New Zealand, that are looking to outlaw billboards. However, they didn’t expect the advertising industry to fight back with a bit of characteristic […]

Auckland Billboards

This entry was posted in Related Work and tagged Auckland Contemporary Issues New Zealand Political Lobbying Related and Random on October 12, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Sao Paulo billboards from Sky Movies — In response to my post on SmartWrap, Faris warned me to ‘beware the backlash’ and sent me a link to his blog which shows the following TV ad. It’s for Sky Movies, promoting the fact that their films are uninterupted by advertising and is inspired […]

Rise and Fall of Billboards

This entry was posted in Sign Preservation Signs in Media and tagged Contemporary Issues Related and Random Video on October 6, 2007 by Sam Roberts