A frequent Twitter correspondent to the Spurtle, @dOSsDaz, has been racking his brains recently trying to remember what a local street artist's designs remind him of.
At last he has an inkling. He believes the mysterious REMOTE's portrait – currently ubiquitous on bus stops and bus shelters across Broughton – is influenced by the work of the Milanese photographic artist PLANK, whose annual campaigns depicting his son have created images so familiar that they become 'like a guardian angel for the city'.
See his links at http://yfrog.com/h37sgovj and http://yfrog.com/kfyebzrj (both drawn from Tristan Manco's Street Logos, Thames & Hudson, 2004) and judge for yourself.