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Karl Blaschke: The Sign Man of Munich

[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 … Read more

Categories Sign Destinations, Sign Folk, Signs in Media
Cover of Hamburg Alphabet book by Chris Campe

Hamburg Alphabet 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 … Read more

Categories Sign Collections, Sign Destinations, Signs in Media
Walls by Deidi von Schaewen book cover

Walls by Deidi von Schaewen

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 … Read more

Categories Sign Collections, Signs in Media
Hand painted sign advertising Martini across four stories of building

Article charting the history and early photography of advertising painted on walls

Daniel Lohmann posted an article he’s written to the ghostsigns Facebook group. It is in german and the original can be found here [Link expired] with … Read more

Categories Inspired by Signs, Sign Collections, Signs in Media

Ghost Signs Received (Europe)

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 … Read more

Categories Sign Collections

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