#4 Streetart meets branding on the facade

This time I encountered streetart in Palermo Soho. It is a mix of streetart and branding I guess. The first is a shop which had it’s front painted by an artist. The second is interesting because it is this time not paint, but a mozaic of little stones, glass etc. I found it in a [...]

2# branding on the facade

I discovered some more houses that are painted with a branding purpose in mind (at least that is what I presume). One is for sure, it’s a Nokia cafe/club. The other is a hairdresser men/women. And the last one is an advertising agency that asked an artist to paint the facade. As I have already mentioned in my prior post about this topic, I really like this type of branding. In Holland for example you cannot just paint your facade (or do anything else with it for that matter) without having a permit to do that (and likely get it declined), but here evidently there does not seem to be a problem.

Branding on the facade

In BA there are a lot of possibilities of what you put on the facade of your shop/bar/restaurant. So this is an excellent way to differentiate your company from the competitor. Furthermore every real estate owner is responsible for the sidewalk in front his property and can choose what to put on it. As long [...]

Interesting (brand)names I saw walking the streets

The shop called Drol

Walking the streets of BsAs I saw some interesting names, not just weird but because they mean something in another language. Like this shop it is called “Drol”, which means “turd” in Dutch, so who on earth would want to call his/her shop “Turd”? Probably they just don’t know. Fortunately for the [...]