Author Archives: Steve Lambert

NY Street Art Takeover Mini Documentary

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 7, 2009

how did I not see this before?

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2012!! In your face advertising! (from Funny or Die)

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 2, 2009

It’s funny because it’s true. 2012!! In your face advertising! – watch more funny videos

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Office Tenants Plagued by Series of Illegal Supergraphic Signs; Do the L.A. City Attorney and District Councilman Care?

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 2, 2009

Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, New York; what big city has the outdoor advertising industry under control? Last March, we reported on the case of an illegal supergraphic sign advertising Chase Bank installed over the second-floor office windows of a building at 7201 Melrose Ave. The city issued a citation to the building owner, Macculloch [...]

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Billboard Companies Protest Billboard Tax…On Illegal Billboards – from Torontoist

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 2, 2009

The billboard industry is—obviously—in the business of getting messages across. This they have managed to do, with a vengeance. In anticipation of today's City Council debate on a proposed new billboard bylaw and tax, the billboard industry has been using its own platform to communicate its deep opposition to these measures. The Out-of-Home Marketing Association [...]

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Posterchild’s Blade Diary » Something Very Special..

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 30, 2009

From Posterchild’s site: She thought she was just helping me out with another street art project; I kept this covered until after it was installed and after the unveiling I was expecting some kind of reaction- but it took a little while to convince her that this was a proposal for real, and not just [...]

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Free Billboard Lobbyist Sanitizer Now Available for All Members of Council (from illegalsigns.ca)

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 28, 2009

It is looking like City Council will debate the new signs by-law and billboard tax on Tuesday December 1. According to the City’s Lobbyist Registry, billboard industry lobbyists have had over 80 closed door meetings with City Councillors in the past month alone. As a result, IllegalSigns.ca has designed, manufactured and is now distributing these [...]

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Interned for an ad agency?

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 25, 2009

Have you interned at an advertising agency? Help out this UMass student with his doctoral research… Seeking Reflections on the Internship Experience in Advertising Agency Settings My name is Chris Boulton. I’m a doctoral student in Communication at UMass, Amherst and I’m developing a dissertation about entering the advertising industry. Specifically, I want to hear [...]

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Judge Says 2006 Lawsuit Settlement Allowing Digital Billboards in L.A. is Illegal, Calls Agreement Between City and Billboard Companies “Poison”

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 31, 2009

Superior Court Judge Terry Green ruled today that the lawsuit settlement giving Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor the right to convert 840 conventional billboards to digital violated the law by exempting those conversions from any zoning regulations or requirements for notice and public hearings.Judge Green took under advisement the question of the legality of the [...]

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On New York City Billboards, a Battle of Ads vs. Art – NYTimes.com

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 26, 2009

By COLIN MOYNIHAN Published: October 25, 2009 It was a bizarre cat-and-mouse game, played on Sunday across scores of makeshift billboards in New York. One group of artists and activists spread across Lower Manhattan, transforming innumerous wheat-pasted posters — the ones that readily sprout over scaffolding — into their own canvas. They would whitewash the [...]

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Public Ad Campaign: Newest PAC Work

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 26, 2009

I woke up half drunk today cause last night was crazy! Had a feeling today needed to involve some art and a bit of takeover. Went to Da Vinci and bought some paper and voila. Art happens at all times of the day. PS: I met couple that is going to do their wedding photos [...]

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Lemonade Movie

By Steve Lambert | Published: August 11, 2009

More than 70,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this “Great Recession.” Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives. via swissmiss | Lemonade. (Please, you laid off brilliant ad people, PLEASE start doing something ethical and [...]

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PosterChild Tells NPA What He Thinks Of Their Contest Promotions

By Steve Lambert | Published: August 3, 2009

via Public Ad Campaign Yesterday I went out with PosterChild, Jason Eppink, Steve Lambert, and Packard Jennings for lunch. Our talk inevitably surrounded upcoming personal projects, collaborative street actions and the age of the urinals at the Old Town Bar on 18th street. Posterchild was leaving for Toronto that evening and had one last project [...]

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Green Sleeves – Illegal ads turned planters on Torontoist

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 27, 2009

It’s 6 a.m. in Kensington Market on a Sunday morning, with the sun out but only barely, and Eric Cheung and Sean Martindale are busy planting flowers. At College and Augusta, on the two large posterboards on the west wall of Sam’s, they cut the outlines of large triangles deep into the thick layers of [...]

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One can do so much with 1 pen

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 10, 2009
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CONSERVAS

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 3, 2009

Leaving tonight for Barcelona where I will be talking at the Innmotion festival tomorrow at the CCCB.  Learn more about the event at the Innmotion 2009 site.

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