Author Archives: Steve Lambert

Shopdropping Workshop in San Francisco

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 11, 2007

The Anti-Advertising Agency’s own Amanda Eicher of PeopleProducts123 will be hosting a free shopdropping workshop at Southern Exposure in San Francisco on Thursday June 28th from 5 to 8pm. She’ll be presenting the workshop in her hometown after doing several workshops in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York earlier this year. Attendees will hear about PeopleProducts123, […]

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City fights illegal gig posters with CANCELLED stickers

By Steve Lambert | Published: June 8, 2007

In a remarkable “Plate of Shrimp”/cosmic unsconsiousness type event, this popped up on BoingBoing today. City fights illegal gig posters with CANCELLED stickers The city council of Glasgow is fighting illegal handbills with science: they’re paying city workers to go around and stick “cancelled” stickers on all the illegal gig posters put up around town. […]

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AddArt in NY Times

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 14, 2007

AddArt, a browser plugin I’m developing at Eyebeam was written about in the New York Times today. AddArt is an extension for the Firefox browser which removes advertising and replaces it with art. The project is being developed and I’m looking for funding to pay coders as well as provide stipends to artists and curators. […]

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Print Magazine

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 10, 2007

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Steve Lambert Speaking in Chicago

By Steve Lambert | Published: May 2, 2007

A quick note to those in and near Chicago – I will be speaking at Mess Hall on Friday May 4 and this years Versionfest on Saturday May 5 as part of the Eyebeam Roadshow. More details here.

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David Lynch on Product Placement

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 8, 2007
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The Indypendent

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 5, 2007

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Pixelator

By Steve Lambert | Published: April 2, 2007

Artist Jasom Eppink has built on our project, Light Criticism (and others), with his own invention – the Pixelator. C’mon folks, let’s keep this going – build on it!

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2007 Bi-annual Report at The Lab

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 26, 2007

Dear Stakeholders, The Anti-Advertising Agency will make available it’s 2007 bi-annual report at The Lab during their Corporate Art Expo ’07. The digital slide presentation will outline the Agency’s projects from the past 2 years. We also have some take-away materials (stencils, stickers) available for guests. Other artist borrowing corporate structures at the expo include: […]

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2 Samaras Project Posters

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 23, 2007

Josh MacPhee has made two Samaras Project posters in pdf form downloadable for free. They are based on our Samaras Project Postcards (also downloadable for free). Print them out and hang them up in your town!

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Samaras Project selected in Environmental Film Fest

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 23, 2007

The Samaras Project website has been selected in Ithaca’s Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival as part of a digital art exhibition called “Undisclosed Recipients.”

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Graphic Imagery

By Steve Lambert | Published: March 4, 2007

I just came across this video. When we posted our Light Criticism video last month, a lot of people wondered how it was possible that city dwellers see over 5,000 advertisements each day (source). This video may help. “Kapitaal is a typographical stroll throug a Dutch city revealing the influence of graphic design.” Kapitaal is […]

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World’s Smallest Advert Subvert

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 28, 2007

With a half-inch sticker you can do so much. Thanks to the anonymous author of this project that popped up on the internet in the past few days.

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When Guerilla Marketers Get Caught…

By Steve Lambert | Published: February 1, 2007

It doesn’t make the news often, but illegal advertisers are caught. One episode many San Franciscan’s remember is when IBM stenciled a campaign on to the sidewalks across the City. The marketers were caught, and fined around $120,000. Not a small amount. However, as SF journalist Hank Donat put it, $120,000 is “a small fraction […]

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Who Hates Guerilla Marketing in Boston? (Updated again)

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 31, 2007

Today in the NY Times, CNN, and news stations across the country you may have heard about bomb scares in Boston that turned out to be guerilla marketing. It’s well known that marketing steals ideas from artists. But the connections are rarely so clear as they are in this case, and we don’t often get […]

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