Author Archives: Steve Lambert

Heather Armstrong’s moving talk on paid content

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 1, 2016

For the last 14 years, Heather Armstrong shared her life online with honesty and wit—work and marriage, raising two daughters, struggles with depression and parenthood—earning her a massive audience. But it took a uniquely modern emotional and physical toll, contributing to her decision to walk away from full-time blogging earlier this year. Recorded in September […]

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Tehran’s Mayor Replaces all Billboards with Art

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 8, 2015

Managing a big city like Tehran goes beyond providing services. Culture and art should be a part of this too.” Source: Suddenly, Tehran’s Mayor Becomes a Patron of the Arts – NYTimes.com

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Add-Art 2.0 released

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 29, 2014

Install Add-Art! Add-Art replaced ads in your browser with art images. We’ve just released an update and you can choose from multiple art sources.

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How to vandalise advertising – a 2m video

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 23, 2014

  Note: This can also be done more quickly with glass christmas ornaments bought at a thrift store.

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UN expert in cultural rights calls for greater scrutiny and control of commercial advertising

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 29, 2014

Yesterday in the United Nations General Assembly the topics were the same as what the Anti-Advertising Agency worked on for years. Steve Lambert was part of a research meeting by the Special Rapporteur for yesterday’s report. NEW YORK / GENEVA (28 October 2014) – From food consumption models to burial rituals, social behavior and beauty […]

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Jerry Seinfeld’s Clio Acceptance Speech

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 12, 2014
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UN Report on Advertising and Cultural Rights

By Steve Lambert | Published: September 9, 2014

The United Nations has published their report on Advertising and it’s effect on cultural rights. (Download PDF). Artist, Steve Lambert was included in a meeting at the United Nations in the development of this document.

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UN expert kicks off new study on the impact of advertising and marketing on cultural rights

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 8, 2014

GENEVA (7 February 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Farida Shaheed, is launching a new study on the impact of advertising and marketing practices on cultural rights, with an up-close look at their effect on cultural diversity and human rights. Ms. Shaheed will be looking at the effect […]

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AAA’s Steve Lambert invited to United Nations

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 15, 2013

The Anti-Adveritising Agency’s Steve Lambert was invited to the United Nations for a meeting on the impact of advertising and marketing on cultural rights. In her 2014 report to the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur will seek to identify main challenges and obstacles posed by advertising and marketing practices to the enjoyment of cultural rights, […]

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Comic: Aha! Graffiti!

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 4, 2013

Aha! Graffiti! | Sidewalk Bubblegum Political Comic Cartoon Strip.

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Re+Public – Augmented Reality Advertising Takeover

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 15, 2013

PublicAdCampaign has spent nearly 10 years investigating the relationship between commercial media and public space. The resulting projects have balanced somewhere between art and activism in an effort to not only question commercial outdoor media, but to improve the visual landscape. While this activism has often taken the shape of civil disobedience and borderline legal […]

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Selling ad space on city property is not “creative”

By Steve Lambert | Published: July 2, 2012

Proposals of selling ad-space on things like firetrucks and are often framed as “getting creative” by the city councilmen that propose them. In fact, it’s not creative – it’s poorly thought out, and shortsighted. These proposals are bad deals that don’t solve fiscal problems (at best, they’re a drop in the bucket). Real creativity would […]

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“It’s Time to Fight” on Print & Paste

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 11, 2012
Steve Lambert - It's Time to Fight - Manchester

My sliding-scale priced “It’s Time to Fight” letterpress print has been turned into a billboard in Manchester, England by the nice folks at Print & Paste. I was stunned and delighted to see it at this scale. Print & Paste is a curated outdoor art space in central Manchester, located just off Oxford Rd opposite the old […]

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AAA material remixed

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 6, 2012

All the AAA materials are licensed with Creative Commons licenses so you can re-use, remix, and share them. Here’s a couple examples of AAA remixes:

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Liberated Ads Confront Foreclosure Crisis (via CDC)

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 20, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2012 – San Francisco, California Liberated Ads Confront Foreclosure Crisis The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new campaign of bus shelter ads to confront America’s home foreclosure crisis. During the week of January 16th, the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged more than one dozen bus shelter […]

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