Fading painted signs

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Restored painted sign on a wall for Larkspur Drinks — This is the second of a series of three posts on current ghostsigns restorations in the UK, following last week’s piece on the Palladium Cinema sign in Morecambe. (See this This sign for Larkspur Soft Drinks is on King Street in Drighlington, West Yorkshire. The […]

Larkspur Restoration by Brian the Brush

This entry was posted in Individual Signs Photo Essays and tagged Bradford Brian the Brush Drighlington Larkspur Leeds Mandora Restoration Scott's Pop Signwriter Slogan Soft Drink UK West Yorkshire on July 16, 2014 by Sam Roberts

Large hand painted sign on a wall in France advertising Dubonnet — I had to share this as it is a brilliant example of the classic ‘Dubo, Dubon, Dubonnet’ campaign with illustrations in the hand painted form. It was captured by Scott Phillips in Paris in 1983 and, on his blog, he describes how he was able to create this wonderful image. The original artwork […]

Dubo, Dubon, Dubbonet in Paris, 1983

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Alcohol Cassandre Dubonnet France Paris Scott Phillips Slogan on August 25, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Captain Morgan Roofad at Ninian Park Cardiff — I’ve been sitting on this for such a long time that I almost completely forgot about it. In fact, Mark sent me details of it back in June 2009 so hands up for my complete slackness on that front! It is another example of a ‘roofad‘ […]

Record Breaking Roofad

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Alcohol Captain Morgan Cardiff Kent Kings Head London Ninian Park Pub Received Research RIP Roofads Rum Slogan World Record on February 11, 2012 by Sam Roberts

It Hasta be Shasta 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.

‘It hasta be SHASTA’: Great slogan and preservation debate from ...

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Drink Ghostsigns Illustration Kasey Smith People Perception Filter San Francisco Shasta Slogan Soft Drink USA on January 15, 2012 by Sam Roberts

Peeling black and white hand painted sign on a building advertising Strongs Meat — After discovering the ‘Ghost Signs of Louisville’ Tour on History Pin I couldn’t resist having a go myself. The preliminary result is my first tour, ‘Stoke Newington Ghostsigns’. I reckon the walk would take a couple of hours depending on how long you stop to […]

Stoke Newington Ghostsigns: History Pin Tour

This entry was posted in Photo Essays and tagged Food Hackney History Pin London Meat N16 Slogan Stoke Newington Strongs Tours UK on December 18, 2011 by Sam Roberts

Panasonic Bicycle 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 a really nice photo from Uris. See the full size image here [Update: Link no longer active]. The infomation on […]

Panasonic (New York)

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Bicycle Illustration New York Panasonic Slogan Transport Travel USA on June 25, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Collosal Media Dewars Fish — 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 is available on their site but here are a couple of highlights, one more old school and one much more […]

Colossal Media

This entry was posted in Related Work and tagged Alcohol Colossal Media Dewars Games Grand Theft Auto GTA Illustration Modern Brickads New York Slogan USA Whisky on June 20, 2007 by Sam Roberts

Roberts Shoe Store — I came across this on another Ghost Sign blog from USA. I wonder if the music notes imply that there was some sort of jingle to go with the slogan ‘happy feet for all the family’, perhaps from a local radio commercial? Also, was this […]

Happy Feet

This entry was posted in Individual Signs and tagged Restoration Roberts Shoes Slogan USA on June 20, 2007 by Sam Roberts