12 Jun 2012
The ‘Books of Clio’ is a great blog for ghostsigns in France
I’ve just started to follow this blog which is regularly throwing up interesting material. Above and below are three of my favourites from the last couple of months (from here, here and here), the first for the interesting arrow shape, the Zanussi one because I’ve never seen a washing machine brand advertised in this way and the Shell one because of the way it is laid out on the building.
For those looking for other bloggers to follow there are quite a few listed in the bottom left panel of the main site and pasts posts about France can be found here and here. If you have any other blog that I should be following then please let me know.
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