Author Archives: Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert’s Anti-Advertising Agency Takes a Long Coffee Break

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 5, 2011

From HyperAllergic: Yesterday, someone suggested to me that artist Steve Lambert’s Anti-Advertising Agency is going dormant after six years of producing some of the most socially engaged work around. For those who may be unfamiliar with the group, they actively co-opted the language of advertising and public relations to question and parody its pervasiveness in […]

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Available

By Steve Lambert | Published: January 3, 2011

A series of billboard performances where singles occupy available billboards. Available. from Adam Moser on Vimeo.

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New Look, New Direction

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 22, 2010

If you’re a regular visitor to the site you’ve noticed design improvements being made incrementally since the summer. A couple days ago I updated the home page to reflect an emphasis on some selected AAA projects and announced that the project is complete – for now. We will continue to post relevant items to this […]

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You can’t even close your eyes to avoid this

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 18, 2010

The only people that love this kind of thing are those who create it and the small numbers who profit from it.

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Mainstreet Revisited

By Steve Lambert | Published: December 13, 2010

A short story about signs, icons and changing times… From scenicminnesota.org thanks lisa

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Art-Decaux

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 30, 2010

From Michael Zeltner: “I love how they not only flooded the panels with other work, but also how they put a description of the key used to open them up ;)” Art-DecauxUploaded by LeMoutonRetif. – Discover more webcam videos and video blogs.

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You Can’t Airbrush Personality

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 29, 2010

Apparently this is all over Tumblr but I can’t find an image credit – sorry!

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

By Steve Lambert | Published: November 12, 2010

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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On advertising / from a working library

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 12, 2010

Let’s pretend, for a moment, that the reading experience on the web is dependent upon an advertising economy, that there is no other model for supporting reading save the ever more noisome sale of cellulite creams and cell phones, that our ingenuity has been so fully drained we cannot envision any other scenario by which […]

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Unlogo back on Kickstarter

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 11, 2010

It’s back! Friend of the AAA and occasional contributor to this site, Jeff Crouse, has a new project he’s trying to get some support for. Unlogo is a web service that eliminates logos and other corporate signage from your personal media. The AAA isn’t as flush with start-up funds as we used to be, so […]

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The Secret Lives of Big Pharma’s ‘Thought Leaders’ – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 11, 2010

In the early 1970s, a group of medical researchers decided to study an unusual question. How would a medical audience respond to a lecture that was completely devoid of content, yet delivered with authority by a convincing phony? To find out, the authors hired a distinguished-looking actor and gave him the name Dr. Myron L. […]

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American Films and Absurdist Film Fest

By Steve Lambert | Published: October 7, 2010

We’ve written about American Films before. They have a new video. Much like Warhol, except not as neat. And they’re organizing an Absurdist Film Festival.  What’s not to like?

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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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