Abschleppzone (Tow Away Zone) – Salzburg Altstadt
Photography by Marcus D. Niski © 2023
Abschleppzone (Tow Away Zone) – Salzburg Altstadt
Salzburg Altstadt – Old Signage [Ignaz-Harrer-Straße]
Image © Marcus D. Niski 2018
Salzburg Altstadt – Signage
Image © Marcus D. Niski 2020
Salzburg Altstadt – Signage
Image © Marcus D. Niski 2020
City Hatters – Melbourne, Australia
City Hatters, Flinders Street Melbourne – Iconic Melbourne Landmark
Image © Marcus D. Niski 2007
Le Petit Prince – Montblanc Signage
Image © Marcus D. Niski 2020
Macabre — Liminal Narratives
Ghost signs, as we have seen, haunt the margins of many zones. Here, fixed categories blur before our eyes. These faded imprints, inked or carved on shop face or wall, elide past, present, future, materiality, insubstantiality, presence and absence. To those that care to listen, they murmur of long-forgotten brands — cigarettes, flour, razors — […]
The old-school subway signs at Chambers Street — Ephemeral New York
Walking through the Chambers Street IRT station on the West Side not long ago, I noticed these tile subway signs, pointing riders in the right direction to the 1, 2, and 3 trains. The station itself opened in 1918, and the signs look a lot newer than that. It’s kind of nice that the old-school […]
via The old-school subway signs at Chambers Street — Ephemeral New York
Ghost Sign — Liminal Narratives
They are there. And you have seen them. Perhaps from a train as it lurches and jolts over the points and junctions outside a city terminus. A glance through the window and they emerge into view. Or, perhaps, on a busy street, you raise your eyes from pavement and shopfront to glimpse what you have […]
On Signage
Sometimes kitsch. Sometimes haunting. Sometimes enchanting. Sometimes banal. Often evocative of places and spaces familiar to us in our everyday encounters with the urban world. A neon sign in a favorite cafe, a vintage enameled sign sporting the logo of a long defunct motor oil company, an art deco sign with its delicately stylish elements, a hand painted apothecary’s sign from the middle ages or an intricate wrought iron sign with exquisite handmade lattice work: signage comes in a myriad number of designs, shapes and forms.
– Marcus D. Niski
Naked Cities Journal 
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