MAVEN BERLIN » SIGN OF THE DAY http://blog.mavenberlin.com Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:02:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 SHOO-IN http://blog.mavenberlin.com/2011/09/20/shoo-in/ http://blog.mavenberlin.com/2011/09/20/shoo-in/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:36:35 +0000 admin http://mavenberlin.com/blog/?p=2363

This funny sign is a winner – Bäckmans shoe repair in Stockholm, established in 1922.

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On our trip to South-Germany and especially at Lake Constance we saw a lot of beautiful inscriptions and signs. The technique is special: the names of places, maps and little drawings are carved into the walls and then painted, all in a typical traditional illustrative style.


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The characters of written Thai are just so beautiful – even prohibition signs look kind of friendly.

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