Street Signs: Facade as Canvas PDF E-mail
Boyd Pearson   
Wednesday, 30 January 2008
 
In our Street Signs section, we choose images from cities, neighborhoods and hops around the world that uncover burgeoning cultural or retail trends. In addition to this pattern recognition, we offer a bit of commentary to help bring it all together. This week’s is entitled Facade as Canvas.

 

Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Mexico City, Panajachel and San Francisco: From Central America to North America and Europe, facades are an integral part to sharing information, bringing a smile to passersby’s faces, or stopping them in their tracks. Any media: draping, fresco, pictorial, trompe l’oeil and sub-culture slang are used, ultimately speaking one international language. Communicating what’s happening inside or down the street gives consumers useful or amusing information in a blink of an eye.

 

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written by melike, January 30, 2008 05:31 PM
This is a cool example from Virgin mobile.

http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_06_ruleof.jpg

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