I was search for a photo on my flickr account, and I saw this one, which I took a few years ago at a small town called Pilot Point in Texas.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/323/31...14138f19_c.jpg
I think commercial wall murals are cool.
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I was search for a photo on my flickr account, and I saw this one, which I took a few years ago at a small town called Pilot Point in Texas.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/323/31...14138f19_c.jpg
I think commercial wall murals are cool.
Cool!
Can we see more?
Well they don't paint ads, but murals are painted on a great many walls here.
We have lots of murals on the walls in downtown Lafayette (in fact, there's a couple that are going up on our city government offices now, and we have tons of others around town). Many of ours are by Robert Dafford. You can see his work on his Facebook page (Dafford Murals) or you can Google him for images.
Here's a page of Lafayette's downtown art (I love the Kellie Smith iris mural and this one by Robert Dafford: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/217932069440308029/)
Philadelphia has a vibrant mural arts program. Come and take a tour sometime..
https://www.muralarts.org/
I checked, unfortunately I don't appear to have almost any of the shots of the murals uploaded. But they are literally all over the city. Hell, they even wrap most of the electricity box things in these funky art scenes.
Ok, this definitely needs a look (murals in Glasgow, Scotland). Here's one taste:
http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/...0005ba195.jpeg
Depends where you are.
In some countries like India commercial murals are still a main form of advertising; cement, phone and drinks brands all use it heavily especially in rural areas.
Creatively not a patch on the old ones of course
Pilot Point is a great name for a town, and to live if you're into pens!
This one is in Hico, Texas.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6092/6...9e850576_b.jpg
There's a fellow over here that has a whole site on what he calls "Ghost Signs". I have a vague recollection that the one that got him interested concerned fountain pens, funnily enough.
And this:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...225b998c11.jpg
In western Pennsylvania, there was a painter who maintained many Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco signs on barns, years after the tobacco was no longer sold.
Fred
Right, should have clarified in the title, though I don't mind looking at artistic ones too.
What fascinate me about the advertisement murals is that the level of commitment from the owner of the buildings. How much did it cost to have a 3-story brick wall painted like that? What if the business (who paid for the ad) went out of business? Or no longer willing to pay?
How did they clean the brick wall?
Will, here's a nice local story. I used to look at this image all the time, because it is directly across the street from the stage entrance to our Civic Theater. The symphony moved to it's own home about 20 years ago, but the mural is still up! The race track was/is south of the border, in Tijuana, B.C.
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-of-sa...caliente-mural
https://assets.change.org/photos/1/a...jpg?1423793293
Fort Smith, Arkansas, has brought in artists from around the world to paint artistic murals on the buildings downtown.
Nice murals up there!
I'm joining this thread:
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