Author Archives: Steve Lambert

‘Welcome ad’ not so welcome – baltimoresun.com

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 3, 2010

The huge Under Armour logo recently added to the hillside of Federal Hill Park to welcome volleyball players has angered some residents, who say the advertisement detracts from the aesthetics of the historic neighborhood. “It’;s hugely disrespectful,” said Paul W. Robinson, president of the Federal Hill Neighborhood Association. Since the logo was added Thursday night, [...]

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Movement Happening on Illegal Signs

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 28, 2010

March has been a bad time for illegal signs in LA. Finally Illegal Advertisers are going to jail.  Here’s info on some of the latest: LA Weekly profiles advertisers in Los Angeles, as well as AAA compatriot Public Ad Campaign’s Jordan Seiler. Here’s how it starts “Supergraphic multimillionaire Barry Rush couldn’t have been pleased to [...]

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On the difference between art and advertising

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 24, 2010

…even a really beautiful, ingenious, powerful ad (of which there are a lot) can never be any kind of real art: an ad has no status as gift, i.e. it’s never really for the person it’s directed at. David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again And poached in this really amazing [...]

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Eugene Mirman on Marketing

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 23, 2010
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Dirty, Dirty, Dirty

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 18, 2010

The supergraphic sign above for the movie “Prince of Persia” on a Westwood office building is legally permitted as an on-site sign, which the L.A. sign code defines as a sign directing attention to a product or service generally sold or offered on the premises where the sign is located. There is no movie theater [...]

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surfrider foundation: catch of the day. « shape+colour

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 5, 2010

Emailed to me by the great Andrew Boyd: This is smart. Super smart. It’s getting more and more rare to see an actual, honest to goodness guerilla campaign that involves both a surprise and an insight tied together with a purpose. Slapping decals on the hand-rests of escalators just isn’t enough anymore. To bring some [...]

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Owner Arrested For Hollywood Supergraphic Previously Cited For Sign Law Violations

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 1, 2010

Friday night’s arrest of Kayvan Setareh for allowing an 8-story supergraphic ad to be wrapped across three sides of an historic Hollywood building was not the first time the Pacific Palisades man has run afoul of the city’s sign code, according to building department records. In January, 2007, a citation was issued for an illegal [...]

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These Are Not Sentences!

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 24, 2010

Remember, it just takes one pen. Send us yours. Seen in a subway station.

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Public Ad Campaign: Should OAC’s Be Subject To The Same Penalties Grafitti Writers Face?

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 28, 2010

Should Outdoor Advertising Companies Be Subject To The Same Penalties Grafitti Writers Face? BC Biermann, a PhD Assistant Professor of Film/Media Studies California Baptist University – Riverside has recently published a paper on “Spatial Distributions of Power: Illegal Billboards as Graffiti in Los Angeles.” In it he argues… “While graffiti has regularly been prosecuted as [...]

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NY Street Art Takeover Microsite

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 27, 2010

Learn all about the New York Street Art Takeover!

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Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street View

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 12, 2010

Now we know what Google would do. What would you do if you had the ability to take over every billboard? According to a new patent that was just granted to Google, the company could soon extend the reach of its advertising program in Google Maps to Street View. This patent, which was originally filed [...]

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DOOM Display Billboards « Urban Prankster

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 7, 2010

If you were a video game geek in the early 1990’s, this is probably up your alley. A quartet of street artists named Mr. Talion, Epoxy, Baveaux, and Kone have added the heads-up display from the first-person shooter computer game DOOM to a number of billboards throughout Berlin. You can see more here. via DOOM [...]

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MySpace Replaces Embedded Imeem Playlists With Ads

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 4, 2010

By friend of the AAA, Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired Magazine Imeem users, bloggers and web users are in for another nasty surprise following MySpace’s acquisition of “certain parts” of the service. MySpace has replaced Imeem songs and playlists embedded on blogs and elsewhere on the web with advertisements for generic ringtones and the MySpace [...]

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Public Ad Campaign: Situationist Methodology Still Sits Well With Me

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 3, 2010

Someone left a copy of Overspray Magazine at my studio the other day and as I thumbed through it I came across this small blip on Urban Pranksterism. There were some fun quotes I thought were relevant as we redefine some of the motivations for our work to help guide us forward in this new [...]

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Sign Companies, Property Owners, Advertising Agencies, Major Corporations Thumb Their Noses at L.A.’s New Off-Site Sign Ban

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 10, 2009

Almost a year after the L.A. City Council approved a moratorium on new off-site and supergraphic signs, and four months after it replaced that temporary measure with a permanent ban, advertisers and sign companies continue to wrap, hang, and otherwise display their multi-story supergraphic signs on the walls of buildings throughout the city. So why [...]

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