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Bus Stop Bench Field Report

Bus Stop Bench Project

The Anti-Advertising Agency and Packard Jennings have wrapped up their Oakland based Bus Stop Bench Ad Project. The Agency created a survey to poll residents in the neighborhoods surrounding 10 Oakland bus stops regarding what advertising tactics they found most bothersome in their neighborhoods. Jennings then developed targeted illustrations for each neighborhood and the team installed the work.

See a virtual tour of the installed benches…




Adeline Adeline #2 Broadway Broadway Close Up Lake Merritt Lake Merritt Liquor Store Lake Merritt Close Up Lake Merritt Head-on Lake Merritt Detail You Don’t Need It - bench angle You Don’t Need It - 40th You Don’t Need It - Grand St. You Don’t Need It - Grand St. Detail Post Office Post Office - detail

This work was shown at Catharine Clark Gallery in April 2006 and included a Bus Tour organized by the gallery.

Bios of Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert can be seen on our staff page.

Written by Steve Lambert, on May 18, 2006, filed under Agency Projects, Bus Stop Ad Project, News and tagged , , . Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

4 Comments

  1. irefusetostopthinking
    Posted May 21, 2006 at 6:42 am | Permalink

    Excellent. I really love this and I hope you guys keep it up. Maybe it will make people actually…..GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!………THINK!!!!

    I could go off into a long tirade about how the morons in this country have lost the ability to distinguish between want and true need and that how they are so easily mezerized into believing they need something that they actually have no use for at all…..but I won’t. I think this project does so in a much more succinct way.

  2. Toby
    Posted May 30, 2006 at 11:56 pm | Permalink

    wow they’re hilarious.

    Although personally I would have gone for just replacing them with christian aid signboards..nobodies going to want to be seen tearing them down.

    A good artistic effort, luckily in england they don’t advertise on bus stop benches so were fine.

  3. Pat J
    Posted June 7, 2006 at 8:10 am | Permalink

    I especially like the “You don’t need it” benches next to other advertising. Nicely done.

  4. human
    Posted January 14, 2008 at 6:55 pm | Permalink

    Beautiful. I’ve nearly reached saturation with this whole selling and being sold to sham. Advertisements are the worst. Beauty and Truth are so much more valid. Thank you!

    P.S. And no, please no more X-tian aid signboards. They’re a wholly different flavor of odious. The last thing I need is a side of condescension & manipulation with my greed sandwich.

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