Category Archives: Bizarre

The sign? The gaffer did it

A sign whose letters are formed with gaffer tape

Quite possibly my favourite sign of all time. They took the time to put an outline stroke on the red type. They made it all out of what looks like gaffer tape. There are three random letters in lower case. The word spacing and letter spacing on ‘fresh vegetables’ are crazy. This is a masterpiece.

Sadly, this work of art was lost to a storm and has been replaced by a neater, conventional sign which is completely devoid of personality by comparison. Such is the transient nature of art…

Hairum scarum

A picture of a hair products poster

The wig shop? Just round the corner. Say hello from us!

‘The efficient recovering of countless bald patients…’ I remember the Shanghai Baldness Hospital disaster of ’79. The speed they got the injured out was remarkable.

The thing that really gets me is the completely bald man/woman/mannequin below the bottles on the right. The after shot looks like he/she/it is  wearing the remains of some agricultural plastic that has been ‘recovered’ from a barbed wire fence. I struggle to imagine who this would appeal to.