Thanks to Jenny, our former office manager, we have now identified the person responsible for tagging our Old Street office window…

Our once office manager’s missive is timely. As she shuffles between her new son Barney (congrats Jenny!) and her keyboard, to be informed of the author of an informal communication between our office and the street is great. The author/artist obviously takes seriously what he does: this means that we should be sensitive to our surroundings and the signs that we encounter. It  could have been graffiti, a public defacement notice follows close behind, a humble sticker, a joke, an adhesive business card…

Every day, as we leave the house, take a bus, a cycle, a walk or a tube,we encounter an Empire Of Signs. Leaving my home I am experience the following signage: 24. 5. Don’t Walk! Cross. 8. Oyster. Upstairs Restricted To Seating Only. “Shoreditch High Street Station Alight Here”. Great Western Street. Old Street. London’s Best Café? I’m Latté for work.

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