This painted Cambodian sign, advertising a ‘Welder of Metal’, is certainly one of the most curious I have come across so far. I first heard about it when it was advertised for sale, here on Khmer 440 Cambodian Forums. It…
Tag: Cambodia
Sat Lo, Hitler and Chaplin in Cambodia
Posted in Enthusiasts, Individual Signs, Sign Features Tagged with: Adolf Hitler, Cambodia, Charlie Chaplin, Khmer, Sat Lo, Tom Kramer, Welder
On the Screens of Cambodia’s Hand-Painted Signs
Gordon sent me this picture that I never saw while researching the book, Hand-Painted Signs of Kratie. It is from Roka Kandal, just South of Kratie town, and reads ‘Repair Television, Tape Player, VCD’ (VCDs are Video CDs). Like Gordon…
Posted in Enthusiasts, Individual Signs, Sign Features Tagged with: Bantaey Minchaey, Cambodia, Computer, Gordon Congdon, Kampong Cham, Khmer, Kratie, Mobile Phone, Phnom Penh, Ratanakiri, Roka Kandal, TV
Cambodian Shop Signs by Joel Montague
Joel Montague has recently made a brilliant addition to the published material on Cambodia’s hand-painted signs. ‘Cambodian Shop Signs: Free-Market Signage in a Post-Marxist Society‘ is a detailed account of the form, featuring over 80 colour images. It is the…
Posted in Books, Enthusiasts, Resources Tagged with: Book, Cambodia, Enthusiast, Hand-Painted, Joel Montague, Khmer, Review
Flying Condoms and Bambi from Alex Diment
I love these public information/social campaigns captured by Alex Diment during his time working on landmine issues in North-West Cambodia. First up is a sexual health campaign from Kampong Thom province suggesting that using condoms can be as fun as…
Posted in Enthusiasts, Individual Signs, Sign Features Tagged with: Alex Diment, Anlong Veng, Cambodia, Kampong Thom, Khmer, Landmines, Preah Vihear, Public Information, Sexual Health, Social Campaigns, Wildlife
Natural Wonders on the West Bank of the Mekong
Soon after publishing Hand-Painted Signs of Kratie I took a tour to the West bank of the Mekong river. After living for two years on the East bank, where Kratie Town is situated, it was odd that I’d never been…
Posted in Individual Signs, Sign Features Tagged with: Animals, Cambodia, Cambodian Pride Tours, Department of Environment, Gordon Congdon, Khmer, Kratie, Mekong, Menagerie, West Bank, Wildlife, WWF
Hand-Painted Cambodian Truck
My recent viewing of the excellent Horn Please movie reminded me of this discovery in Battambang which I made just before leaving Cambodia. While the trucks of India, Bangladesh and Brazil (to name a few) are consistently decorated in vibrantly…
Posted in Individual Signs Tagged with: Bangladesh, Battambang, Brazil, Cambodia, Entertainment, Guitar, Hand-Painted, Illustration, India, Khmer, Music, Ngor, Truck
Hand-painted Cambodian signs at trunkh.
The popularity of hand-painted signs in Cambodia seems to be increasing on a daily basis. During last week’s ‘road show’ to launch the book in Phnom Penh I learned of a new shop that, among many other things, is selling…
Posted in Enthusiasts Tagged with: Cambodia, Doug Gordon, Enthusiast, Marianne Waller, Phnom Penh, Shop, trunkh., Vann Molyvann
An exhibition and book launch in Phnom Penh
After last month’s publication to the rest of the world, Hand-Painted Signs of Kratie is now coming to Cambodia. To celebrate its publication here there will be a number of events in Phnom Penh. Throughout this time, and beyond, the…
Posted in About, Events Tagged with: Book, Book Launch, Cambodia, Cambodian Living Arts, CLA, Event, Exhibition, Monument Books, Nerd Night, Phnom Penh
Koh Kong Blues
We’ve currently got guests over from the UK and my wife has taken them to Koh Kong in the South West of the country from where she has sent this despatch of signs, all painted on blue in the traditional…
Posted in Enthusiasts, Sign Features Tagged with: Cambodia, Dentist, Gilly Clifford, Guard Dog, HiFi, Khmer, Koh Kong, White on Blue
Now Published: Hand-Painted Signs of Kratie
It’s official, Hand-Painted Signs of Kratie is now available to buy from Amazon.com and a number of other retailers. The book comes in a print edition and two different eBook formats for devices like iPad, Kindle, Nook and more. There’s…
Hand Painted Signs of Cambodia Flickr group
If you haven’t done so already then I’d highly recommend browsing the Flickr group, Hand Painted Signs of Cambodia. It is a real treasure trove of content, mixing the beautiful, bizarre and bemusing in one nifty package. A number of…
Posted in Enthusiasts, Individual Signs, Resources Tagged with: Beauty, Beauty Salon, Cambodia, Community, Education, Enthusiast, Erik Bos, Flickr, Kampong Speu
Collecting hand-painted signs from Kratie
I’d been considering buying a handful of signs that I really like for a couple of weeks and had even got as far as opening negotiations with a couple of the owners. I then had to go to the countryside…
White rabbits on Cambodian signs
White rabbits make an unusually frequent appearance on hand-painted signs in Cambodia. The one above is from the Yeak Loam lake in Ban Lung, Ratanakiri. It turns out that the white rabbit is a symbol of good luck in Cambodia,…
Posted in Sign Features Tagged with: Ban Lung, Cambodia, Khmer, Kratie, Rabbit, Ratanakiri, White Rabbit, Yeak Loam
Design Week likes Hand-Painted Signs of Kratie
Hand-Painted Signs of Kratie is featured in a nice piece on the UK’s Design Week website with a selection of images that struck a chord for them. There is also a mention on Andy Brouwer’s blog which covers all things…
Joel Montague, sign collector
I’m not the only one with an interest in hand-painted signs in Cambodia. Joel Montague worked in the country in the 1990s and took it upon himself to collect many of the originals that he found there. The video above…
Posted in Enthusiasts Tagged with: Andy Brouwer, Cambodia, Exhibition, Gallery, Joel Montague, Resource, Video
