Hitting tumblr in search of storefront reference images. Here are a few good ones:
- street signs & storefronts
- London Shop Fronts
- Liverpool Shopfronts
- Once Upon a Town is a fantastic collection of historical city photos
- Beauty and Neglect has a lot of empty scenes with decaying buildings (plenty of brutalism)
- Creative Boom feature about Ben Hassett‘s L. A. liquor store photos
Also, Colossal has featured some great illustrators drawing Korean and Japanese storefronts:
- Lee Me Kyong, part one and two
- Colorful storefronts by Angela Hao