香港幽靈：數字互動平台
One of many old photo studio Ghost Signs in Island East, this one for 温莎攝影 (wan1 saa1 sip3 jing2 'Windsor Photography Studio') was captured in Sai Wan Ho in September 2022.
Perhaps due to the area’s working class history, cameras could have been an impractical luxury for most, whereby a visit to a photo studio may have been an exciting occasion for a couple or a family.
A Ghost Sign in Jordan, captured in April 2023.
粵興公司 (Yuet Hing Company) used to deal in electronic scales, paper, printing products and printing services at this location at 15 Nanking Street. They still exist but they’ve moved over about seven blocks west, leaving behind this sign which was written by the calligrapher, 黄維瑁 (Huang Weichang or Wong Wai Cheong).
Professor Wong was born in 1901 or 1902 and was quite a big name in the Chinese calligraphy world. He died in 1993 but his works live on in the collections of the Hong Kong Museum of Art @hkmoa . They’ve appeared in at least three exhibitions there: “Hong Kong Calligraphy” (1990), “Modern Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Taiyilou Collection” (1991) and “Fragrance of Ink and Vermillion” (1999).
The Professor seems to have specialised in Clerical Script (隸書), which tends to be used in Hong Kong signage when somebody wants to give a feeling of gravitas or something of the old world. Businesses and institutions that might favour Clerical Script would be schools, stationery stores and, perhaps, printers.
Maybe the proprietors of Yuet Hing Company thought Professor Wong’s balanced calligraphy would be perfect for advertising their scales?
The Hing Wai Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd. building in Aberdeen, with a faded Ghost Sign of Good Companion Cigarettes. February 2, 2023.
本項目透過記錄「幽靈招牌」（Ghost Signs）——即保存著中國書法字體、本地招牌繪製工藝及集體回憶的褪色歷史標記，探討香港獨特的招牌景觀。藉由存檔這些城市中遺存的「燦爛書法」與「鮮艷色彩」，此計劃旨在守護城市過去的視覺敘事。
本項目透過記錄「幽靈招牌」（Ghost Signs）——即保存著中國書法字體、本地招牌繪製工藝及集體回憶的褪色歷史標記，探討香港獨特的招牌景觀。藉由存檔這些城市中遺存的「燦爛書法」與「鮮艷色彩」，此計劃旨在守護城市過去的視覺敘事。
團隊率先以城市考古的視角審視香港的中英文招牌，記錄了數百個幽靈招牌，並通過展覽、演講、步行遊覽和互動網絡應用程序來提高公眾對幽靈招牌的認識。項目發展不斷增長的線上香港幽靈招牌檔案庫，透過為用戶提供現有幽靈招牌的位置以及記錄新的工具，豐富了香港過去和現在城市景觀的集體記憶。團隊目標是擴大這個資料庫及受眾覆蓋面，並透過深入研究、檔案圖像和專業翻譯來確保品質控制，推動檔案庫與使用者社群共同成長，同時為正在消失的生活方式留下了獨特的印記。
- 2025
- 成功申請人: Billy Potts 博之俊, Ben Marans