For Hire: Stunning Reveal near Columbia Road Market
Via Amanda Jacks on Twitter I was alerted to the reveal of this ghost sign near Columbia Road Market. It’s at the junction of Ravenscroft … Read more
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Wine & Willing: A Stoke Newington Mystery
This fragment was one of my early discoveries when I first started noticing ghost signs in 2006. It was located on a very prominent wall … Read more
Glasgow Ghostsigns Galore
I’ve been traveling a lot with work lately and was recently in Glasgow for a workshop. With a couple of hours to spare I looked … Read more
The restoration of the Brixton Windmill mural
Check out this photo essay from the London Mural Preservation Society documenting their project to repaint Brixton’s Windmill mural. It is a fantastic achievement and … Read more
Joseph’s Hat Shop sign threatened in Austin, Texas
This great hand painted sign for Joseph’s Hat Shop in Austin Texas is set for demolition ahead of the construction of a new Marriott hotel. … Read more
Ukrainian Ghostsigns: Shadows of a Forgotten Past
Areta Kovalska just added a link to this post about ghostsigns from Lviv in Ukraine to the Ghostsigns Facebook page. It not only has some … Read more
‘It hasta be SHASTA’: Great slogan and preservation debate from San Francisco
Great collection of signs and a write up on the Perception Filter blog about this soft drink campaign in San Francisco. More here.
Fresh lick of paint
I received an email this morning from a mural artist with an interest in working to restore/repaint Ghostsigns in the UK. She found me via … Read more
Gillette Razors
Frank Jump just posted this London sign he photographed while visiting in Spring 2001. It’s a classic Gillette ad with the characteristic blue background colour. The … Read more
Panasonic (New York)
Lena found this one some time ago lurking on the Wikipedia entry for Panasonic [Update: It no longer appears there]. It’s a fantastically simple design and … Read more
Mister Furniture (France)
My mum just got back from France where there is a great tradition of painted sign writing. This one is from Beziers in the south … 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
Peterkin’s Custard
Further to the post on Louis Sheldon-Williams, here’s my photo of the full Peterkin’s Custard sign (featured in the Time Out piece). The little boy … Read more