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Sao Paulo: Before And After

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 21, 2011

via Ban Billboard Blight.

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Anti-advertising billboard showcases the clean air around it | Grist

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 12, 2010
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Annie Han + Daniel Mihalyo: Lead Pencil Studio, Non-Sign II, 2010 Photo: Lead Pencil Studio Anti-advertising billboard showcases the clean air around it | Grist. thanks for the tip from Victoria Estok

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double happiness – mammoth // building nothing out of something

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 9, 2010

Bureau de Mesarchitecture’s “Double Happiness”, an installation for the 2009 Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial via double happiness – mammoth // building nothing out of something. sent on by annie vought

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OX in Vienna: The power of colors cannot be denied

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 4, 2010

OX in Vienna: The power of colors cannot be denied French artist OX takes over Austrian billboards and shows his approach to the Austrian flag in form of a huge sausage on former advertising spaces. via OX in Vienna: The power of colors cannot be denied.

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Invasion of the Boris Bikes « LRB blog

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 21, 2010

The invasion of the Boris bikes is complete. They stand on street corners, corralled like docile, futuristic horses in their blue harnesses. They’re good bikes – sturdy and solid – with a rather pleasing sit-up-and-beg riding position the better to survey the road around you. Undocking them is also quite fun, like something out of [...]

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Smart License Plates: A Very Dumb Idea?

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 25, 2010

via Ban Billboard Blight Do you think the idea of California license plates than can show electronic ads is: 1.  A great idea, about time. 2.  Possibly questionable, but let’s study it. 3.  One of the top ten worst ideas of all time. If you answered yes to #1, don’t bother reading further.  If you [...]

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Consumer Reports: California considers ads on car license plates

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 24, 2010

Facing a $19 billion deficit, California is seeking creative solutions to its budget shortfall. The state legislature is considering a program that would allow advertising on license plates, according to the Associated Press. The bill would require new, digital plates, with ads appearing in the space currently occupied by the familiar numbers and letters. The [...]

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Scented Billboard Stinks

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 8, 2010

From AAA reader David Z… In Mooresville, N.C a highway billboard advertising steak sold at Bloom/Food Lion, a grocery store, does more than ruin the visual landscape. It wafts onto motorists the smell of cooking meat. That’s right, it’s a scented billboard. From the local Fox News channel: The scent is emitted by a high-powered [...]

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‘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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“Beer here!”: The Poster and the Public Notice in Rural Rwanda

By kelli | Published: March 24, 2010

The journey along Rwanda’s winding mountain roads is a bustling scene rural life, farm work, and commerce dotted with sparse, intermittent signage. In the most densely populated nation in Africa, advertising is thin. There are no shop signs or billboards. The looping eucalyptus and mud brick facades sporadically feature a lone 16″ x 20″ splash [...]

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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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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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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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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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