Reading, okay skimming, through the newest addition of graphik magazine (new cover, which is all very 'wall art')I saw an article on Rob Ryan (rather talent personage with a scalpel and paper)who has create an installation at the YSP, that's Yorkshire Sculpture Park to you and me. If you are in Wakefield (where the park is, then I think it would be worth a little look-see. http://www.ysp.co.uk/view.aspx?id=693

I think it's gone now, but at the end of 2009, whilst they went about ripping down the buildings around Tottenham Court Road (one being a rather smashing chip shop), they revealed an old sign for Veglio & co's cafe.

The world is peppered with 'ghost signs'from a time when painting on a prominently displayed wall was the way to solicit business. Now washed out and faded these old advertisements, still tenaciously clinging to the brick they were painted on, are a nod towards the skill of the sign writers who created them. Generally working on a freelance basis,the sign writers mixed their own paints to exacting colours, executing the designs onto walls from scaled drawings whilst making sure the lettering was level - even if the wall wasn't. Not easy.

This site is a marvellous little portal of visual stimuli uploaded by people of the world, who have seen it, been inspired and want to share it.

http://weheartit.com/

 

For a quite a while now I've been a little obsessed with comedy moustaches, and it seems that I am not alone. Moustaches are inspiring design in loads of product areas; appearing on t-shirts, prints, mugs, dogs... the list is long and varied.