Sign Initiatives
Ghost sign projects and events.
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Pandora Range McClary’s Stoves sign repainted in Cambridge, Ontario
The restoration of this ghostsign in Canada is part of an effort to reinvigorate the downtown area of Cambridge, Ontario. Read some observations on the process of restoring this sign and also this article celebrating the completion of the piece.
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What signs say in Cambodia, a selection from Kratie
I’m planning a book to profile a collection of photos of hand painted signs that I’ve taken in my current hometown of Kratie in Cambodia. As part of this I’m working with a local called Chhay to translate the text from the signs from Khmer to English. It is proving a worthwhile exercise, both for […]
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Five years of Ghostsigns and a new website
Today is the 5th birthday of this blog following the first ever post on 16th June 2007. In that time, including my stints on blogger, google sites and posterous, I have uploaded 415 posts, an average of seven per month. As a birthday present I have upgraded the site to a hosted WordPress content management […]
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Ukrainian Ghostsigns: Shadows of a Forgotten Past
Areta Kovalska just added a link to this post about ghostsigns from Lviv in Ukraine to the Ghostsigns Facebook page. It not only has some fascinating images but also some insightful observations on the meaning of these pieces of painted advertising from the former Soviet Union. See more from Areta on the Shadows from a […]
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Then and now: shopfronts 1988 revisited
Via this review of the East End shopfronts exhibition happening now in Tower Hamlets, I came across this incredible site which is the work of Lady Lamo and her colleague Alabama. It retraces the steps that Alan Dein took in 1988 and documents what has become of the shops he photographed. The result is absolutely […]
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Photographic exhibition of East End shop fronts opens today
I’m gutted I won’t be able to visit this exhibition (pdf flyer below) of Alan Dein‘s late 1980s images of shop fronts in Tower Hamlets. If anyone writes a review then let me know and I’ll link to it here. (Hat tip to Lorna at History Workshop Online for the discovery.) Download exhibition poster.