Painted signs and mosaics

This relatively new (in Aug. 2016) painted sign promotes China Telecom's 4G+ LTE (Long-Term Evolution) network. I'm afraid my trans...

Two signs await the visitor in a narrow street behind Xizhou Market Square. The first one, partly written with plastic letters stuck to the...

Here is a slightly truncated painted sign for the China Postal Saving Bank, a commercial retail bank set up by the State Post Bureau in 2007...

Painted signs of a political nature are everywhere in China. This example dates from 2014, when the Communist Party of China, under the lea...

This curious house, known locally as the Round House (圓樓), used to be Xizhou's highest building. Sadly it is now looks abandoned. I cou...

This sign is part of the Chinese authorities' fire prevention strategy, which includes twelve precautionary meaures. It represents the f...

This week features a series of painted signs from Xizhou, a small town in the province of Yunnan, China, famous for its well preserved Bai ...

Many painted signs can be seen across rural China and the small village of Yangdi on the western bank of the River Li, between Guilin and Ya...

Even though I didn't see many painted signs in Istanbul (about one a day on average over one week, but that includes a couple of real ge...

If anyone knows what these elaborately-painted Chinese characters mean, please let me know. This sign clearly points in one direction, but w...

Even though the sun is shining today, more cold and grey weather is forecasted for the days to come... So, hoping that would make temperatur...