How valuable is our public space to advertisers and marketers? An anonymous agent of the Anti-Advertising Agency made some calls. How much does it currently costs to have street level ads in a city like San Francisco? Here’s some examples.
Market Street Kiosks. Background: Three sided containing four by six foot poster advertisements. [...]
I know I said that posting would be sparse if at all while I was doing my residency at AS220 but, you know, this picture from a park in Barcelona came across my virtual desk courtesy the brilliant Matt Malooly in Chicago and I had to share its deeply conflictual messages with you. As [...]
Found in the bottom of my inbox; this story from WFTV in Florida. Read all the way through to see my favorite part…
Business Owners, Customers Upset Over Controversial Billboard
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — It looked harmless enough, but the words on a billboard unnerved so many people that a popular restaurant nearby actually lost business. [...]
by Jill Stewart at the LA Weekly
Recently, reporter Christine Pelisek asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in L.A. - an embarrassing document that will show the public all 11,000 “points of blight” allowed on local streets by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Mayor Antonio [...]
If you haven’t checked out IllegalSigns.CA yet, Rami Tabello is the man behind the removal of dozens of illegal billboards in Toronto.
From IllegalSigns.CA:
Humber College’s Convergence Magazine has published this article [PDF] about IllegalSigns.ca. It breaks a bit of new ground with the following quotes:
“The billboard lobby is a very powerful lobby,they do a [...]
By Patricia Lowry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Ah, for the good old days, when billboards were merely a blight you could avoid, sort of, by averting your eyes.
Now the outdoor advertising companies have us right where they want us: stuck in traffic or at a red light, facing a digital sign that changes about every seven seconds. At [...]
Our friends over at the Billboard Liberation Front have posted their latest improvement.
The fun doesn’t stop there. An excerpt rom the BLF’s press release:
The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, [...]
In this video James Howard Kunstler picks apart urban development in the United States, getting a few laughs in the process. In talking about creating “places that people care about” this struck me:
“The public realm is the physical manifestation of the public good. And when you degrade the public realm you will automatically [...]
While Packard and Steve were dreaming of an awesome future on the bus stops and billboards of San Francisco, someone else was dreaming up much bloodier situations on the bus stops and billboards of London! An anonymous graffiti hero known as THE DECAPITATOR has been liberally choppin’ off heads, or at least, covering up [...]
Sao Paolo’s Billboard Ban is about to have it’s first birthday. The ban went into effect and remains, despite threats of multiple lawsuits and cries about the loss of (corporate) free speech issued this time last year. For example:
But advertising and business groups regard the legislation as injurious to society and an affront to [...]
If you ever looked at the overwhelming amount of advertising in urban spaces and questioned whether or not you can make a difference, you most certainly can. Meet Rami Tabello, the man behind my new favorite website: IllegalSigns.CA. The Toronto based site tracks illegal signs, as well as lax enforcement through freedom of information [...]
There appears to be a new phenomenon of people being paid to “wrap” their cars in advertisements as a sort of moving billboard. (article see the article here) I had seen several flatbed trucks which had been outfitted with billboards on the back before, but I have not seen one of these cars [...]
There was an article in the NY Times today discussing the possibility of getting some sort of “sponsorship” for the Golden Gate Bridge. You know the idea of slapping advertising on everything has gotten bad when people are seriously discussing slapping ads on national treasures. What’s next? I giant “Monster.com” sign below [...]
