Author Archives: Steve Lambert

GRL at MoMA on Sunday

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 30, 2008

Anti-Advertising Agency associates, the Graffiti Research Lab (who worked on the AAA Light Criticism project) will be at the MoMA in nyc on Sunday. I’ll be on an all-star panel with them and other fine folks after the screening. See you there… G.R.L. The Complee7 First Season (Trailer) from fi5e on Vimeo. GRL: The Complete […]

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BLF Escape; Publish Book!

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 29, 2008

Our pals at San Francisco’s Billboard Liberation Front, feeling the heat after their recent ATT/NSA campaign, “decided to temporarily relocate to safehouses on the European continent.” While hiding out they spoke at The Game is Up! in Ghent Belgium and distributed one of their many valuable texts. The new PDF of their The Art & […]

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Steve Lambert in Gelf Mag

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 21, 2008

In the buildup to the undoubtedly massively successful “Non-Motivational Speakers” series at Happy Endings on Thursday, Gelf Magazine has published interviews with Alan Abel, Ron English, and me. Here’s a small excerpt: GM: In utopia, what does the advertising look like? SL: I mean, do we need it? If a good product exists, we’ll know […]

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Official Foundation for Freedom Press Release

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 18, 2008

Contact: Anne Elizabeth Moore – aem at anneelizabethmoore.com Steve Lambert – steve at antiadvertisingagency.com ###FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE### April 17, 2008 ###ANNOUNCING THE 2008 ANTI-ADVERTISING AGENCY FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM AWARD### ###Fund Offers One Lucky Ad Industry Creative Freedom, Giant Check### CHICAGO—The most creative and forward-thinking professionals of our time work in marketing. The Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation […]

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Steve Lambert on NPR

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 17, 2008

I stopped in to NPR’s Bryant Park Project this morning to talk about our “You Don’t Need It” stickers. You can listen to the segment through a stream on NPR’s site.

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G.R.L. Screening at MoMA – May 4th

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 16, 2008

Come see the the Graffiti Research Lab‘s DVD which draws sordid connections between the Graffiti Research Lab and the Anti-Advertising Agency. The back story of the AAA/GRL collaboration, Light Criticism, will be exposed, as well as an inside view of the Aqua Teen Boston Terror Meltdown of 2007 you’ll never see elsewhere! Anti-Advertising Agency cohorts, […]

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Steve Lambert with Alan Abel and Ron English

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 10, 2008

I’ll be giving a short talk for part of Gelf Magazine’s Non-Motivational Speaker series. If you haven’t seen Abel Raises Cain, it’s great. And Ron English you’ve probably seen already. From Gelf’s site: Culture jammers and pranksters will be this month’s topic. Featured speakers are Alan Abel, perhaps the most infamous prankster in American prank […]

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No Lo Necesitas

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 9, 2008

You Don’t Need It, en español. Already on their way to Barcelona and Peru. This sticker accompanies our english version, and english stencil version. As always, available FREE – just send a self addressed stamped envelope to: The Anti-Advertising Agency c/o Eyebeam 540 W. 21st St. New York, NY 10011 We’re relocating! Will be out […]

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Murketing: Absolut international incident?

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 7, 2008

from R. Walker at Murketing: Strange Maps, via The Plank: This map, used in a Mexican ad campaign, shows what the US-Mexican border would look like in an ‘absolut’ (i.e. perfect) world: a large part of the US’s west is annexed to Mexico. Needless to say this map made its way to ‘El Norte’, annoying […]

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Good Signs from Ray Beldner

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 4, 2008

Ray Beldner: The Word on the Street March 28- June 14, 2008 at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art From the exhibition description: The Word on the Street, neon signs by Ray Beldner, is an installation in the gallery’s front windows at 560 South First Street. The Word on the Street is part of […]

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Clear Channel Messed with LA Weekly and Lost!

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 3, 2008

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 […]

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New and Improved

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 2, 2008

I put a new coat of paint on the Anti-Advertising Agency website (did you notice?) last week. Agency projects are now listed over to the left. What started as a place to document our work a few years ago has expanded to a forum for news, thoughts, and ideas about subjects related to the Agency […]

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Article on Rami Tabello of IllegalSigns.CA

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 30, 2008

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 […]

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With billboards, cities are facing the digital decision

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 29, 2008

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 […]

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Clear Channel: Digital Billboards Rented, Not Hacked

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 26, 2008

The Los Angeles street artist known as Skullphone managed to get his iconic skull-holding-a-cellphone image to display on 10 prominent digital billboards throughout Los Angeles last week — leading some blogs to report that hed hacked into the signs. Alas, Clear Channel Outdoors, which owns the billboards, says no. "He paid to get it up," […]

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