Sign Folk
Ghost sign people and personalities.
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Dr Ken Jones’ mosaic technique for ghostsigns photography
Dr Ken Jones is a former NASA imaging expert whose work in the 1970s included digitally photographing the surface of Mars. This required the use of image ‘mosaics’, a technique which he is now applying to the more terrestrial subject of ghostsigns.Dr Jones’ work starts from a fairly simple concept of what he wants from the […]
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Ghostsigns of Winnippeg, Manitoba
Rick kindly sent me this collection of Canadian ghostsigns, including one that appears to be painted on the side of a lorry. He gives some background: “Here are some photos I took while working on a movie call ‘The Assasination of Jesse James’ in the City of Winnippeg, Manitoba. The City is full of these […]
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Brilliant new website: Traditional Sign Maker Magazine
Via the Signpainter Movie I came across this facinating site which profiles signwriters and has already introduced me to the beautiful world of Filete Porteño in Argentina. Lots more good stuff to come from them no doubt…
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Graphic DNA documents the visual language of the street
I’ve recently been in regular contact with Geraldine Marshall whose project, Graphic DNA, caught my attention. It is the topic of her PhD thesis, under the supervision of Dr Caroline Archer. I took the opportunity, before she gets too busy, to ask Geraldine some questions at her base in the Midlands, from mine in South […]
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Hand painted wall signs and murals from Hungary
József László is an artist in Budapest, Hungary, specialising in photo-real hand painted advertising, other hand painted wall advertising and murals. His work impressed me so I thought I’d share some of the pictures he sent me. Some of these remind me of Colossal Media’s work, some are more like the signs I saw in Bangladesh, and […]
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Woody Guthrie’s less well known vocation as a signwriter
Frank Jump has alerted me to this interesting insight into the folk singer’s first occupation. Is this another way in which he has influenced Bob Dylan is his line of work as a visual artist?