I was invited by London Live to chat about ghostsigns and this is what they made. A slightly more extended written piece with the same video featured on the Independent.
TV
Following last week’s post about Shopfrontelegy, here’s a short film from the Secret London section of new TV station London Live. It’s based on the work of Emily Webber who writes the London Shop Fronts blog.
London Shop Fronts on London Live
1 Today I visited D&AD’s New Blood exhibit and got chatting to Craig Palmer who had created a ‘zine’ all about the humble ampersand. It was a little lesson in the history of type with Craig telling me that the word is a conjunction (or ‘mondegreen‘ […]
London’s Lonely Ampersand
1 I didn’t think I’d end up writing about the major sporting event beginning with ‘O’ in my home town of London. That was until I came across this TV spot from Nike. It features many of the other ‘Londons’ found in the world, including, at […]
TV commercial features hand painted sign for Small London, Nigeria
2 This TV series looks very interesting but sadly the show on iPlayer isn’t available in Cambodia so I’ll have to wait for the DVD, although there is also a book. I’ll hand over to Caroline to cover some of the issues raised by the first episode […]
The Secret History Of Our Streets, a new BBC2 series
Over in Seattle USA there was a feature on their evening magazine show featuring Tom Dobrowolsky of the Urban Archives project. Great to see more profile raising happening state-side…
Urban Archives on TV
1 I’ve just got round to posting the proper quality copies of the two biggest pieces of BBC coverage of the project. These are the One Show piece with correctly synched audio (below) and, more recently, the piece on BBC Radio 4’s Making History program.
BBC Ghostsigns
Rank Hovis kindly sponsored the work with The History of Advertising Trust in getting the archive off the ground and now their sister brand, Hovis, have featured a Ghostsign in their latest TV commercial. You can catch a glimpse at about 00:10 in the clip […]
New Hovis Commercial
[Update: better quality video here.] Here’s the piece that was broadcast on the One Show, BBC1, on 12th April 2010. To see it full screen on youtube click here. On the same day, by pure coincidence, the Guardian did a write-up in their G2 section. […]
One Show & the Guardian
[Update: Broadcast available here.] I´ve just received news that a feature on the History of Advertising Trust Ghostsigns Archive will be broadcast on this Monday´s One Show on BBC1. Date: Monday, 12th April 2010 Time: 7.00-7.30pm Channel: BBC1 iPlayer: it should also be available here […]
Ghostsigns on BBC One Show
This was broadcast on ITV Granada on Sunday, 31st January and featured Caroline & Phil Bunford who have added their collection of signs from Liverpool to the archive. This follows up the piece on the BBC Liverpool website. Well done Caroline, look out for more […]
Liverpool ghostsigns on TV
2 NYC is on a roll with TV appearances, this time its Frank Jump from the Fading Ad Blog.
Fading Ad Blog on TV
[Update: It appears that this video is no longer available, it was originally broadcast on AOL so if anyone has a copy, please get in touch.] If you haven’t seen it, get hold of a copy of this book. While using Addict-o-matic for the first […]
Ghost Signs on TV, NYC
This video from Jim Kirchherr from the Living St Louis series is a nice introduction to some of the signs from that city and touches on a number of the key aspect of the signs, their history and preservation. It also features a brief interview […]
Living St Louis
3 Last night (27th September) there was a feature on London Tonight all about Ghost Signs in London and how they should be protected. I was interviewed for the piece and Alistair Stewart commented that it was a “masterpiece”. High praise indeed!