Shop signs & shutters

Shop signs and shutter paintings found around Birmingham. This old handpainted one...I love where the paint is fading.

I would like to study arabic typography in detail at some point, I love the square-ness of the two forms on the top of this sign.

 This looks almost as if it were painted then taken apart and put back together slightly wrong...perhaps something to convert into a technique at some point.

Presumably accidental but AMAZING!











I love drippy type, I made this animation last year with chocolate:

There's a nice post from Eye Magazine here.  on greek shop signs in Athens. I love type/letterforms that become distressed and worn over time, ever changing.