Getting Wrapped Up In Pekanbaru

Time to go green in Indonesia. For tablecloths, seat covers, countertops, get an old advertising banner or some vinyl that looks like traditional cloth patterns and get wrapping. It's quite the rage.

Typical sales stall, the display table covered in plastic.

Patterns are important, the more variety, the better. Or what's left over.

The contrast can trip into high fashion clashing.

Mixing patterns and old banner ads. Getting ready for the next layer.

Floor pattern, advertising table, all loud, all great.

All Wrapped In Vinyl In Bishkek

They've gone crazy for vinyl signage in Bishkek - perhaps pent up demand from all those years of only seeing Soviet propaganda posters. The stuff is everywhere, advertising all sorts of things. If there's an expansive surface, there's vinyl ready to cover it.

Bringing the fantasy of grocery shopping to the outside of the store.

Selling a school. Cake crazy.

The glamour of juxtaposition.

Selling the future, nostalgic for the past.

Getting graphic at your fast food shack.

Pushy coverage. Down the stairs of a hair salon, pasting over a windshield.

Getting desperate. No amount of vinyl can mask the condition of this building.