Saul Bass on the cost of aesthetics

Saul Bass, couldn't have put it better myself.

Hand painted advertising murals

Recently the iconic DKNY mural in NYC's SoHo distract was removed :



Some don't realise that murals like this are still painted by hand in a minority of cases.
What used to be the main method for applying large-scale advertising is now a small industry of a few remaining practitioners.

This great documentary interviews a few of these painters and reveals how it's all done:

UP THERE from Jon on Vimeo.

Edit: here's a great site from the History of Advertising Trust called Ghostsigns, it's an archive of photos of old and fading hand-painted signs from around the UK. I'm glad someone is taking stock of the huge number of these old adverts that are still visible before they fade away completely.

http://www.hatads.org.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=33