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Allegedly, this is a photo of an electronic billboard in Odessa, Ukraine crashing. But those of us who understand that the entire universe is actually a holographic projection around the Earth know the truth. Worse: the universe runs on Windows.
Link -via Boing Boing
The ad agency Leo Burnett, maker of clever campaigns like landmine stickers and human billboards, designed this glorious billboard. It is shaped like a fry box. Yellow lights projecting upwards like a pillar of fire guide the hungry forward from up to three miles away.
Link -via That’s Nerdalicious! | Photo: Leo Burnett
As an attorney trying to use a billboard to attract new clients, it’s probably best to show the client why they should hire you, not how incompetent, insane or downright creepy you are. These guys and gals aim to show the entire city why their services should be avoided at all cost.
A billboard campaign aimed at promoting colon cancer awareness has been kicked to the curb in Washington state. The ads, which feature the slogan “What’s up your butt?”, were initially approved unanimously by the Tri-City health board in April. After residents complained that the ads were “in poor taste,” (though the images were revealed before the initial vote), a reversal was proposed and unanimously approved this Wednesday. So no “butt billboards” will go up in Washington, which is a bit of a let-down.
Personally, I think it’s a great campaign, but then I don’t fall inside the colo-rectal cancer-screening demographic. Or maybe it’s because I don’t have something up… well, you know.
Link | Image: Yakima Health District
Architect Didier Faustino made Double Happiness out of an old billboard in New York City:
Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seem to be prevailing over all. This nomad piece of urban furniture allows the reactivation of different public spaces and enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium. By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two persons can experience together a new perception of space and recover an awareness of the physical world.
Link via Flavorwire | Artist’s Website | Photo: Broken City Lab
Talking about driving your point home! Pictured above is a billboard created by the government of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, to discourage drunk driving. The text on the back side, according to English Russia, reads “Your body could have been here.”
Link via Jalopnik | Photo: English Russia
Artist Jon Jackson has lived his entire life in Los Angeles, but has decided to move to New York City to further his career. He’s saying goodbye to his city, or rather, breaking up with her. So Jackson put up 5 billboards expressing why it’s important that they both move forward and start seeing other cities.
The Seattle-based design firm Lead Pencil Studio created this installation at the US-Canadian border. It’s supposed to give the impression of a billboard:
the sculpture is made from small stainless steel rods that are assembled together to create the negative space of a billboard. while most billboards draw attention away from the landscape ‘non-sign II’ frames the landscape, focusing attention back on it.
Link via Dude Craft | Studio Website | Photo: Design Boom
Here at Neatorama, we love the work of food artist Prudence Staite. We’ve featured her Snow White made out of apples, her Robert Pattinson made out of chocolate, and her Pope made out of pizza dough. One of her latest creations is a billboard made out of cheese. She and 13 assistants took 8 days to make this advertisement out of 10 types of British cheese.
Link | Photo: Jeff Moore
ING Direct, a bank, wanted ads that would grab the attention of passersby and interact with them. So the ad agency Leo Burnett in Milan hired people to hang from billboards or other conventional ad placements and talk to potential customers about the company’s services. At the link, you can view three other examples.
Link via The Presurfer
The Amélie Company, a Denver-based ad agency, made this billboard for the State of Colorado to promote safe driving. The text at the bottom reads “Tailgating Isn’t Worth It. Give Trucks Room. It’s The Law.” The agency wrote:
The Colorado State Patrol wanted to call attention to the dangers of driving aggressively around commercial motor vehicles. Our target audience was the typical mid-twenties male commuter who considers himself a good driver, but is actually a menace. We stayed away from scare tactics and instead created a graphic, bold campaign that used language familiar to our target and that would be very memorable to the audience as a whole.
Link via Super Punch | Photo: Ads of the World
Photo: Lauren Besser
Urban artist Specter created a series of hand painted billboards that lampoons the gentrification of Brooklyn. The art is very tongue-in-cheek (don’t miss the "Ghetto Fabulous Condos"), but let me ask you this: what is wrong with gentrification? What’s so bad with cleaning up the neighborhood and raising property values?
Link – via Wooster Collective
When most people feel cheated by their lover, they complain to friends or maybe trash some of the other person’s property left at their house. But YaVaughnie Wilkins is not most people.
After seeing that Oracle President Charles Phillips was going back to his wife, she bought $250,000 worth of billboards in Atlanta, San Francisco and New York that featured her and Charles together. The billboards also featured a link to her website, but it has since been taken down.
I think this is going a bit far, but I’ve never been in an eight year long affair with the president of a major company, so maybe I just don’t know what it’s like. What do you guys think?
Link Via San Francisco Family Law Blog Image Via Gawker
