B OUR Guest sign on Brixton Road rail bridge by Marks & Sparks

[Ol Nick]

<suitablt chastised mode>

Now who who else read that as an advert for a BLT sandwich?

 

[lang rabbie]

Now who who else read that as an advert for a BLT sandwich?

Does anyone else have a suspicion that Mr Retro is part of the Brixton creative industries conspiracy - I hear that there are copywriters of the mobile text spam for the lucrative yoof/yoot market

 

[T & P]

So you and your company know what it means?

I popped in the Beehive at lunchtime & the general opinion of the old boys at the front was "a load of bollocks" or some such.

I can't help it but agree with that statement.

 

[IntoStella]

I popped in the Beehive at lunchtime & the general opinion of the old boys at the front was "a load of bollocks" or some such.

Yes, but to be fair, that is their opinion of absolutely everything.

 

[Mr Retro]

Does anyone else have a suspicion that Mr Retro is part of the Brixton creative industries conspiracy - I hear that there are copywriters of the mobile text spam for the lucrative yoof/yoot market

I've been Rumbled!

 

[lang rabbie]

Lambeth belatedly put out a press release yesterday

The sign aims to convey the message that Brixton offers a wide range of cultural experiences.

IMHO It fails in that laudable aim.

Note the all-important colon in "B: Our Guest". How cool is that?

 

[MrSki]

That explains that then.

It is colourful but I think the message might be lost on a lot of visitors to the area who have not got an abstract grasp on English.

OUR GUEST "Got change for £2(inflation)" "Skunk, Hash, Coke" general requests for bus fares that I could write a book about the excuses.

Still I am sure the kids who designed the panels get a buzz of seeing their 'E' on display for all to see who enter Brixton (By whatever means of transport!) are well chuffed.



Guest to what?

 

[suzee blue cheese]

Goodness, somebody took too many Clever Dick pills this morning, didn't they?

Viagra+ Coming soon to a store near you

I too read it as Bourgest which I instantly mistook to be an author I'd never heard of.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Bumped for the benefit of a new poster who wants to read all about this subject.....

 

[MrSki]

Bumped for the benefit of a new poster who wants to read all about this subject.....

Hello Mrs M.

Does this new poster know what it's about?

I still wonder as I pass under the bridge. Still good art is something that is discussed 6 months later?

I prefer it to nothing, but only cos it makes me wonder who it is supposed to inspire?

It has lots of colours but I do not understand what it is trying yo say!

Still six months later I might learn a trick or two!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Well actually the new poster made it... He had a very particular brief from Lambeth that he had to follow to the letter so any difficulty reading it was not down to him! I've seen loads of his stuff around Lambeth and he's a really good bloke.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've noticed a plaque on the market side of the bridge - only ever seen it from the other side, but I think it might explain the signs

 

[poster342002]

Well, this might not make me very popular, but I think it looks bloody awful and merely contributes an air of "grubbiness". It does nothing to further the casue of literacy, either! I also agree with Red Jezzas post of 15/03/04 - how can the council plead poverty the one minute and spend cash on a massive (and poinltess) sign that appears to read "BOURGEST" the next? Who really needs it in comparision to othrer stuff the money could have been spent on?

 

[lang rabbie]

Who was responsible for the brand concept/visual identity for the ill-fated "B:Electric" cultural hub?

(IMHO it was mediocre bordering on crap, but not quite of the same level of crapness as the new "identity" for Lambeth First )

I assume the mural designer had to incorporate this, which seems to be the source of the problem.

 

[Orang Utan]

It does nothing to further the casue of literacy, either!

Neither do you!

 

[poster342002]

Neither do you!

Oops!

 

[gaijingirl]

I like it. I still get a chuckle when I look up and see "Bourgest" and then realise, yet again, that it's Be our guest! It's nice and bright and as I cycle along the road and look up it cheers me up! I like all the different designs of each picture.

It may not be as "correct" as "Be our guest" but then modern English is a constantly changing language and this kind of language usage is more and more prevalent whether we like it or not.

Anyway, as someone else pointed out.. it brightens up a shit bridge!

 

[IntoStella]

Compulsory labour for the Bourgest!

I've noticed a plaque on the market side of the bridge - only ever seen it from the other side, but I think it might explain the signs

It's the signatures of Brixton kids, which I think is sweet. I assume they were involved with the project.

 

[ats]

It sounds like an anagram to me.

I'd say it might mean 'GORE STUB', which would be a message about cracking down on violent crime in Lambeth.

Alternatively, it might mean 'BUST OGRE', a gentleman to be found just below the bridge, in the bra department of Marks and Spencer.

 

[editor]

They're going for a new design:

Design competition launched to replace Brixton’s ‘B Our Guest’ bridge artwork

 

[editor]

A friend comments on FB:

Let's go straight to 'BOURGEOIS', it looks back to the previous piece whilst capturing the zeitgeist of the present.

 

[MrSki]

How about " Help your self" I can't remember my drunken journey back in 2004 but the place has changed. Shame I haven't apart from getting older and fatter!

 

[DietCokeGirl]

I know its the street art equivalent of Marmite in these parts, but there's a petition to restore andthe existing B OUR GUEST. Bit of history about how it was created on there.
Restore the Brixton B OUR GUEST artwork | Campaigns by You

 

[Gramsci]

Interesting to read the comments back from 2004. Mixed viewed on it back then.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I absolutely hate it. Not only is it ugly it's also unreadable. Hopefully it will be replaced with something better but who knows!