11 Mar 2012
Rick Janzen of Streamline Studios creates a ‘ghostsign’ from scratch
Photos: Rick Janzen
This photo essay shows the various stages in recreating the effect of a ghostsign using water-based paints (the rest of the blog is worth checking out too, especially this post and this one). This appears to be a different technique to that employed by Colossal Media at the end of this video.
Rick is also working on a film to document the stories of the signwriters still plying their trade in the USA and UK.
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19 May 2012
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William Stage investigates some of the ghostsigns of St Louis ahead of forthcoming book
Photo: William Stage This article offers a preview of some of the material that is lined up for the forthcoming book, Ghost Signs of St Louis. I’m very honoured to have been invited by William Stage to write a forward to this follow up to the definitive ghostsigns book and the postcard book from last […]
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Sgraffito and the Old Dairy at Crouch Hill
These pictorial panels depicting the products and services on what is now The Old Dairy on Stoud Green Road have always intrigued me, and ahead of next week’s talk at the North London Lettering Association I thought I should carry out a little research. The late-Victorian building once housed a branch of the Friern Manor […]
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