Art Replaces over 120 Illegal Billboards in New York City
Late last week, over 120 illegal billboards were taken over by Jordan Seiler’s incrediblely ambitious “New York Street Advertising Takeover.” Organized as a reaction to the hundreds of billboards that...
View ArticleBillboard Text
Oh, how I cannot wait for the day that we have some money to do something as big as this. [via Heather is Watching]
View ArticlePaying for Art with Billboards
Beautiful City is a new campaign based out of Toronto that is trying to persuade the city to create a tax for billboards that would do the following: A historical 53% increase to the annual municipal...
View ArticleUrban Interventions by OX
OX works on billboards across Paris, France to disrupt perspectives, commercial aesthetics, and daily encounters with forever-scaling urban signage. The artist has sent us a few emails in the past, so...
View Article“You are Still Alive” Billboard
Steve Lambert was just one of the artists who were included in the 2010 Art Moves Billboard Festival in Torun, Poland. His work, titled “You are Still Alive” is a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of...
View ArticleDouble Happiness
Here is a magnificent use of billboard space created by architect Didier Faustino. He has titled the work/installation/swing-set Double Happiness for pretty obvious reasons. Clever ideas like this...
View ArticleSteve Lambert: It’s Time to Fight
Two things I can’t get enough of — Steve Lambert and huge text signs. Lambert’s latest work, It’s Time to Fight was installed recently in Pittsburgh, PA over a waffle shop. Text-based work continues...
View ArticleSao Paolo: City With No Ads
From Text-In-Transit to …And Then The City, we’ve spent a lot of time researching ways in which we can subvert some of the advertising spaces in Windsor, but what if we were to just eliminate all of...
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