[Mood Board]: Vanishing City – Traditional Written Board

 

As I walked through the ManWah building area, the handwritten traditional sign with white as the base colour and bright red handwriting caught my attention. As a mainlander studying in Hong Kong, I browsed through travel guides about Hong Kong, and many tourists would use such signboards as a travel postcard of Hong Kong and its famous street scenes. However, with the development of technology, fewer and fewer shops choose to use such signboards, and there are more newer types of signboards that are so simple that they only have the name of the shop.

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