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Ghost Sign Hunting: Melbourne Seminar

Sam Roberts, Stephen Banham and Stefan Schutt will speak at the Ghost Sign Hunting: Melbourne Seminar to be held on the afternoon/evening of Tuesday, 12th March 2013 in Melbourne. It’s free and all are invited so please come along if you can (don’t forget to RSVP) and pass on the details to those who might be interested.

Ghost sign hunting: the new fascination with old hand-painted advertising signs
In London, Detroit, Melbourne and other large cities around the world, people are on the hunt for ‘ghost signs’: traces of old advertising signs painted onto walls. Cameras and mobile devices in hand, they capture these traces and share them in their thousands on social media and, increasingly, in books. What makes these remnants so fascinating? Nostalgia? Urban change and its discontents? The appeal of a forgotten craft? The re-imagining of familiar places?

Exploring what ghost signs can tell us about how we live with and experience diverse cultures and histories of place and image, this seminar will feature expert international and local perspectives, plus open discussion, from:

Stephen Banham (Melbourne): Called a ‘typographic evangelist’ by London’s Eye magazine, Stephen Banham is the founder of type studio Letterbox. His typographic explorations centre on the social and cultural aspects of letterforms. With over 17 publications on typography, Banham’s 2011 book, Characters: Cultural stories revealed through typography (www.characters.net.au) focuses on Melbourne signs. Banham lectures at RMIT University and holds a Master of Design. In 2011 he was awarded a Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria.

Sam Roberts (London): Sam Roberts is an authority on hand-painted signs. In 2010 he launched the History of Advertising Trust Ghostsigns Archive which records advertising on walls from across the UK and Ireland. Sam has written numerous articles for design, advertising and academic publications, as well as contributions to books about ghost signs from the USA and the UK. His Ghostsigns blog is here: www.ghostsigns.co.uk In 2012 he published Hand-Painted Signs of Kratie, about the street advertising of Cambodia.

Stefan Schutt (Melbourne): Stefan is s a research program leader at Victoria University’s Centre for Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, and the creator of an online archive of 10,000 abandoned documents from the former Melbourne signwriting firm Lewis & Skinner, which operated from the early 1900s to the 1960s (www.lewisandskinner.com) He also writes a blog about Melbourne ghost signs. Stefan holds a PhD from RMIT University and is a Berry Family Fellow with the State Library of Victoria.

Level 17 Artspace, VU City Flinders Campus, 300 Flinders St, Melbourne
Tuesday 12 March, 4.00pm – 7.00pm
Free – refreshments provided
RSVP: polly.probert@vu.edu.au by Thursday 7 March
Enquiries: 9919-4362

Source: ghostsigns.co.uk | Flyer

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  1. Stefan Schutt says

    Tuesday 12th March 2013 at 9:27 am

    Great that you’ve started this site!
    If anyone from the site joins us at the seminar today, come and introduce yourselves!
    There’s a lot to talk about, on a local level, about this topic, and sites like this are a great way to do that.
    Stefan

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