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Author Archives: Steve Lambert
Dirty, Dirty, Dirty
The supergraphic sign above for the movie “Prince of Persia†on a Westwood office building is legally permitted as an on-site sign, which the L.A. sign code defines as a sign directing attention to a product or service generally sold or offered on the premises where the sign is located. There is no movie theater […]
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Tagged billboard, illegal advertising, los angeles, public space, the law
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surfrider foundation: catch of the day. « shape+colour
Emailed to me by the great Andrew Boyd: This is smart. Super smart. It’s getting more and more rare to see an actual, honest to goodness guerilla campaign that involves both a surprise and an insight tied together with a purpose. Slapping decals on the hand-rests of escalators just isn’t enough anymore. To bring some […]
Owner Arrested For Hollywood Supergraphic Previously Cited For Sign Law Violations
Friday night’s arrest of Kayvan Setareh for allowing an 8-story supergraphic ad to be wrapped across three sides of an historic Hollywood building was not the first time the Pacific Palisades man has run afoul of the city’s sign code, according to building department records. In January, 2007, a citation was issued for an illegal […]
These Are Not Sentences!
Remember, it just takes one pen. Send us yours. Seen in a subway station.
NY Street Art Takeover Microsite
Learn all about the New York Street Art Takeover!
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Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street View
Now we know what Google would do. What would you do if you had the ability to take over every billboard? According to a new patent that was just granted to Google, the company could soon extend the reach of its advertising program in Google Maps to Street View. This patent, which was originally filed […]
DOOM Display Billboards « Urban Prankster
If you were a video game geek in the early 1990’s, this is probably up your alley. A quartet of street artists named Mr. Talion, Epoxy, Baveaux, and Kone have added the heads-up display from the first-person shooter computer game DOOM to a number of billboards throughout Berlin. You can see more here. via DOOM […]
NY Street Art Takeover Mini Documentary
how did I not see this before?
2012!! In your face advertising! (from Funny or Die)
It’s funny because it’s true. 2012!! In your face advertising! – watch more funny videos
On the difference between art and advertising
…even a really beautiful, ingenious, powerful ad (of which there are a lot) can never be any kind of real art: an ad has no status as gift, i.e. it’s never really for the person it’s directed at. – David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again And poached in this really […]