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Chain Letter: Serge Nidegger, Lowrider Sign Co.

Lowrider Sign Co.'s Serge Nidegger and a Parisian palimpsest that has inspired him for two decades.

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Detail of a hand-painted sign which has various graffiti tags in marker pen written over it.
Sign painting vs graffiti in Paris.

Chain Letter invites a sign painter or lettering artist to share a piece of lettering that has influenced or inspired them, before passing the baton to someone else, in a never-ending chain.

In the last one, Nicolai Sclater, aka Ornamental Conifer, nominated Serge Nidegger at Lowrider Sign Co. (@sergelowrider), a sign painter and screen printer in Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Vertical hand-painted sign which has various graffiti tags in marker pen written over it.
The mixture of traditional sign painting and graffiti which caught the attention of Serge Nidegger in Paris.