This blog is turning into a dual one - exploring both the signwriter/ghost sign side and the ARP/Morris West one.
Been doing some reading on ghost signs, aka Brickads (mainly UK) or Fading Ads (mainly NYC it seems). Quite a movement on Flickr, Twitter, and with some figureheads such as Frank Jump from the UK, a teacher who was diagnosed with AIDS a couple of decades ago and now is the Fadings Ads guy...some interesting commentary out there about survival, forgetting, memory etc. Plus now there's “Characters: Cultural Stories Revealed through Typography” by Stephen Banham (Port Melbourne: Thames & Hudson Australia Pty. Ltd., 2011) which is all about Melbourne's history through signs.
Been doing some reading on ghost signs, aka Brickads (mainly UK) or Fading Ads (mainly NYC it seems). Quite a movement on Flickr, Twitter, and with some figureheads such as Frank Jump from the UK, a teacher who was diagnosed with AIDS a couple of decades ago and now is the Fadings Ads guy...some interesting commentary out there about survival, forgetting, memory etc. Plus now there's “Characters: Cultural Stories Revealed through Typography” by Stephen Banham (Port Melbourne: Thames & Hudson Australia Pty. Ltd., 2011) which is all about Melbourne's history through signs.
Anyway, here are the next couple: a remnant of a Robur sign on Gaffney St plus another opposite where we live on Gilbert Rd, then one in Spotswood. OK, the latter two aren't Robur signs, but I'm getting into this:
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