Author Archives: Steve Lambert

Advertising Scofflaw Assaults NYT Reporter

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 25, 2008

From the New York Times’ David W. Dunlap, dated March 27, 2008: The takeover of public space for commercial promotion may be offensive, but it is usually legal. Occasionally, however, it is not. On Friday, March 14, it bordered on the criminal. That’s where I come in. I was the victim. As a Times reporter, […]

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Watch Out Dr. Zizmor

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 10, 2008

Admittedly, I’m a little late to the game on this. Apparently it circled the design world last month when the Anti-Advertising Agency’s graphic designer, Adam Connelly, first sent this to me. Regardless, page through the 5 different templates on Design-Police, download and print on sticker paper, and start talking back to those poorly designed ads. […]

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The BLF’s Newest Latest

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 28, 2008

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 […]

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Google Adwords Judo

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 27, 2008

A reader named Greg emailed with a firefox plugin he wrote that, instead of blocking ads, automatically clicks on all Google Adwords for you. As Greg explains: It is incredibly simple, it simply clicks on adsense advertisments as you surf. You don’t get any money for that, but it is like giving money to every […]

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James Howard Kunstler on Public Space

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 19, 2008

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 degrade […]

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On Propaganda Today (NYC)

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 10, 2008

Where the Truth Lies: A Symposium on Propaganda Today Friday February 15th, 2008 The Graduate Center City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Speakers include: David Brancaccio, Milton Glaser, Maro Chermayeff, Stephen Duncombe, Sam Ewen, Stuart Ewen, Jeffrey Graham, Julia Hobsbawm, and Eugene Secunda. As the presidential race shifts into high gear, […]

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Urban Visions Panel at CCA (SF)

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 1, 2008

San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street Program presents San Francisco Urban Visions Panel led by artists (and Anti-Advertising Agency members) Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Co-sponsored with CCA’s Graduate Fine Arts Program and Livable City Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 at 7 PM […]

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Light Criticism in ModArt Europe

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 11, 2008

Light Criticism was mentioned in a ModArt Magazine, along with the GRL, Jason Eppink, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. The story is called “Windows and Wallpapering: Questions about Art, Technology and Poetic Interference” by Elizabeth Haines and you can read most of it at the F@ Lab site.

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Arguing From Both Sides

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 29, 2007

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 […]

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Packard Jennings in NYT

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 26, 2007

AAA member, Packard Jennings, who worked on the Bus Stop Ad Project, had a project on the front page of the New York Times on monday. The article discussed shopdropping and referenced the Anti-Advertising Agency’s shopdropping workshops for the PeopleProducts123 project. Update: Here’s some tv news coverage, with our friends from the Center for Tactical […]

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Our Brands, Ourselves

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 23, 2007

Thanks to R.Walker, I came across the following post by Paul Lukas, who’s excellent ‘zine, Beer Frame, I discovered in my first year of college. Paul puts together some compelling arguments for keeping logos off team sports uniforms and in doing so, brings up some other interesting ideas about commercialism and our culture. His latest […]

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Charlie Brooker’s 10 Biggest Cocks in Advertising

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 20, 2007

Yes, “Cock” is in the headline. I never said this was a family blog. A friend just sent these two bits of simple genius. You probably don’t want to watch this too loud at work, depending on where you work. I can’t make any sense over what the BBC does and doesn’t bleep. Also the […]

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Marketers, the Military, and Me

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 18, 2007

You may have heard already about the A&E billboard beaming audio to the street in New York City. A speaker mounted above the billboard sends ultrasound waves from 7 stories up to a specific location below. Because it’s highly directional, for people outside the target area it’s hardly, if at all, audible. Here’s a demonstration […]

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Postcards from Our Awesome Future

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 14, 2007

Packard Jennings and I recently asked architects, city planners, and transportation engineers, “what would you do if you didn’t have to worry about budgets, beauracracy, politics, or physics?” Ideas from these conversations were then merged, developed, and perhaps mildly exaggerated to create a series of 6 posters for the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Art on […]

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Facebook Business Solutions

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 13, 2007

Emily’s been working on a piece about Facebook’s creepy Beacon software (you probably heard about it in the news). But in the midst of the controversy Facebook has taken the marketing of social networking profiles to a whole new low with facebookbusinesssolutions.com. Did they think we wouldn’t notice? It starts with Facebook Surf and goes […]

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