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Advertising, Abstracted
The Wooster Collective talks to Ji Lee about turning video billboards into glowing art pieces.
Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee’s day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,” where he placed empty speech bubbles on outdoor advertisements and allowed the city to fill them in. Here, we’re highlighting…
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Should We Ban Advertising Junk Food to Kids?
Couple things we know. Childhood obesity is basically a national health crisis. Sugar cereals, as we called them when I was a kid, are not good for us, despite being delicious and despite marketers’ best efforts to have us think otherwise. Now, thanks to a leaked Yale University report, we can add one more factoid to he mix: Preschoolers are bombarded with cereal ads an average of 642 a year.
Now, we’re not talking about ads…
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VIDEO: Sustainability in Ghana featuring Tinny
I was at a design and sustainability type conference/workshop this weekend and Adam Werbach from SaatchiS shared this in his presentation: its a Cadbury commercial airing in Ghana—-bascially, their take on talking about fair trade is celebrating the awesome Ghanain culture it supports. This is “cultural sustainability” and it’s pretty awesome.
Original article: YouTube – Cadburys – Zingolo ft. Tinny
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Beautiful People for Coal
The folks at GE took their cameras down to an average American coal mine.
If you weren’t completely distracted by the models, and want to know what the somewhat vague phrase “emissions-reducing technology” means, check out GOOD columnist Ben Jervey’s piece on clean coal. …
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Artists hijack illegal billboards in NYC
Photo by Ji Lee
Two weeks ago, Jordan Seiler’s New York Street Advertising Takeover project whitewashed over 120 illegal billboards in New York City. Then artists began repainting them. Not a bad way to clear out some intrusions into the public sphere, eh? If the city won’t order them taken down, will they protect the owners if people take them out themselves?
More at cronicasbarbaras.com, woostercollective.com, jameswagner.com etc.
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Did You Fall For It Like I Did?
If you’ve recently found yourself in one of the cities inundated with TAP Project ads maybe they got you too. In the event these ads haven’t yet sufficiently tempted your curiosity, I encourage you to try them out now and text T-A-P to U-N-I-C-E-F (864233)—just like they ask you to.
I’ll wait.
Okay, done?
Did it happen to you?
Well, last night, after passing my umpteenth TAP Project ad here in Los Angeles, I finally succumbed to the clever copy…
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Will Someone Defend Agriculture?
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An Odd Place for Ads
In response to Morgan’s post “Flying the Profitable Skies,” I offer these two photos of of ads on U.S. Airways barf bags. These are for real.
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Super Bowl: The Numbers
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Advertising, Abstracted
The Wooster Collective talks to Ji Lee about turning video billboards into glowing art pieces.
Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee’s day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,” where he placed empty speech bubbles on outdoor advertisements and allowed the city to fill them in. Here, we’re highlighting…
Read & Discuss
VIDEO: Sustainability in Ghana featuring Tinny
I was at a design and sustainability type conference/workshop this weekend and Adam Werbach from SaatchiS shared this in his presentation: its a Cadbury commercial airing in Ghana—-bascially, their take on talking about fair trade is celebrating the awesome Ghanain culture it supports. This is “cultural sustainability” and it’s pretty awesome.
Original article: YouTube – Cadburys – Zingolo ft. Tinny
…Read & Discuss
Beautiful People for Coal
The folks at GE took their cameras down to an average American coal mine.
If you weren’t completely distracted by the models, and want to know what the somewhat vague phrase “emissions-reducing technology” means, check out GOOD columnist Ben Jervey’s piece on clean coal. …
Read & Discuss
Artists hijack illegal billboards in NYC
Photo by Ji Lee
Two weeks ago, Jordan Seiler’s New York Street Advertising Takeover project whitewashed over 120 illegal billboards in New York City. Then artists began repainting them. Not a bad way to clear out some intrusions into the public sphere, eh? If the city won’t order them taken down, will they protect the owners if people take them out themselves?
More at cronicasbarbaras.com, woostercollective.com, jameswagner.com etc.
Read & Discuss
Did You Fall For It Like I Did?
If you’ve recently found yourself in one of the cities inundated with TAP Project ads maybe they got you too. In the event these ads haven’t yet sufficiently tempted your curiosity, I encourage you to try them out now and text T-A-P to U-N-I-C-E-F (864233)—just like they ask you to.
I’ll wait.
Okay, done?
Did it happen to you?
Well, last night, after passing my umpteenth TAP Project ad here in Los Angeles, I finally succumbed to the clever copy…
Read & Discuss
Will Someone Defend Agriculture?
Read & Discuss
An Odd Place for Ads
In response to Morgan’s post “Flying the Profitable Skies,” I offer these two photos of of ads on U.S. Airways barf bags. These are for real.
Read & Discuss
Super Bowl: The Numbers
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