Painted signs and mosaics

For this week's series of painted signs, we're heading to Indonesia, and more precisely to the island of Bali. Telkomsel is one o...

It is not uncommon for hairdressers for women in Nepal to call themselves beauty parlours. Hence their rather large number. Only for ...

Both good and bad signwriting cohabit side by side on the façade of this small business in central Kathmandu. Photocopy Location: K...

With many government schools performing poorly due to lack of funding and skilled teachers, families who can afford it often send their chi...

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

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...

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...

Lovely to see some advertising for companies that have almost completely disappeared in the digital photography age. Bahadur Photos K...

Here is the first of a series of Nepalese painted signs spotted during a recent visit to this beautiful country. Santosh Best Hair...

Below Brixton's famous Bovril ghost sign is a fragment of a sign for Butlin's holiday camps. It is far less special than the one in...

Thanks to the lovely colours of the façade, this ghost sign painted in the 1960s or 1970s on Mr Blomme's shop is hard to miss. E. Blo...

Of the two ghost signs on this façade, only the lower one -"Undertakers"- can still be read. The upper one, which would certainly ...

The removal of a large billboard earlier this year led to the reemergence of half a ghost sign in Putney. Unfortunately the other half i...

Founded in 1990 in Chichester, Henry Adams has now thirteen branches across Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire. I do not know when their Haslemere...

Back in May, to promote its direct services between London Marylebone and Birmingham, Chiltern Railways had the good idea of selling return ...

Most mosaics featured in this blog are laid on the doorstep of shops but it does not mean this is always the case as today's example ill...

The ghost sign for Washeteria presented yesterday isn't the only one on this wall above Swanage High Street. However, while the launder...

The sign looks relatively recent but the launderette it promotes shut down a few years ago. Indeed Washeteria Ltd was dissolved in October 2...

As this blog reaches its 600 th post, I needed something special to mark the occasion. This why I take you once more to Birmingham for a ra...

Unfortunately we may never know the full name of the dry cleaners as the upper part of this ghost sign has completely disappeared. ... [...