Mercury Bar: Private Parking (Detroit MI)

I received a call from a friend that told me a new bar had opened in Detroit, and they would be needing signage done. It was the Mercury Bar, a landmark that had appeared in a postcard series I had created last year. I gave the owner a call and, sure enough, he needed signage.

(This was the postcard with the Mercury Bar. The postcard series came from the pages from Drawing Detroit, a book I self-published in 2011. Check out the book here.)

The first sign was a Private Parking sign. The paint had faded since the spot had actually been a parking lot, but the Mercury Bar wanted to keep the signage. Some of the letters could be seen from when the last guy painted it, so I used that as my template. I think, for what it is, it turned out well.