Disclaimer This blog is about the graphic design of burglar alarms and has no connection with the companies featured. Most photos show vintage sounders and are not the latest products of the firms under discussion. For up-to-date info on any company, please visit their official website.
Burglar Alarm Britain
Where vigilante culture meets vernacular design
Essays
Thematic essays
Visual essays concentrating on specific burglar alarm themes, from design tropes to architectural settings to political context. Not many here yet, but the list will soon grow.
- The discreet charm of burglar alarms Reasons to look upwards.
- Do Conservatives prefer bulldogs? Dodgy statistics show that 50% of dogs on British burglar alarms are bulldogs – rising to 75% in Conservative wards.
- The mystery of Dogs Full of Money – solved I wanted a Banksy, but all I got was this badly-drawn sticker.
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