Germany

[This book review is reposted from the original on the Better Letters blog.] “Signwriters are entitled to their immortality just as are other artists and craftsmen” – Kevin Corrigan Kearns, Dublin’s Vanishing Craftsmen Signwriting is perhaps the least documented of the lettering disciplines; it’s nature […]

Karl Blaschke: The Sign Man of Munich

This entry was posted in Sign Destinations Sign Folk Signs in Media and tagged Blaschke Book Germany Munich Oliver Linke on May 18, 2018 by Sam Roberts

Cover of Hamburg Alphabet book by Chris Campe — Hamburg Alphabet by Chris Campe is a delightful expose of one German city’s signage and public lettering. Featuring 220 images it catalogues these examples in alphabetical order according to the word spelled on the sign. The pages are visually striking, offering both similarities and sharp […]

Hamburg Alphabet by Chris Campe

This entry was posted in Sign Collections Signs in Media and tagged Alphabet Books Chris Campe Germany Hamburg Lettering on August 29, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Walls by Deidi von Schaewen book cover — Deidi von Schaewen’s ‘Walls’ is a lovely hardback book that documents hand painted advertising on walls in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s geographical coverage is noteworthy with examples from Berlin, London, New York, Paris and elsewhere in France. Most of the photography is in black […]

Walls by Deidi von Schaewen

This entry was posted in Sign Collections Signs in Media and tagged Books France Germany UK USA on April 11, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Hand painted sign advertising Martini across four stories of building — Daniel Lohmann posted an article he’s written to the ghostsigns Facebook group. It is in german and the original can be found here with links to full size copies of the diverse set of images referenced. The pdf of the original as it appeared in published […]

Article charting the history and early photography of advertising painted ...

This entry was posted in Inspired by Signs Sign Collections Signs in Media and tagged Article Daniel Lohmann Germany Ghostsigns History Martini on February 26, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Having been fairly busy over the last few months at work and on my course I’ve only been making the occasional posts of things that people have sent to me. What has resulted is a slight backlog of pictures and so these posts will pull […]

Ghost Signs Received (Europe)

This entry was posted in Photo Essays and tagged France Germany Received on March 11, 2008 by Sam Roberts