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Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

Charlie Todd — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:29:52 +0000

Public Ad Campaign strikes again with a new advertising takeover. This one took over 106 bus shelter ads in Madrid. Artists around the world were asked to submit text for the billboards. The above photo shows text I personally submitted. It translates to: “advertisement for a bad movie.” Check out all the other photos and artists here.

Here’s the project summary:

MaSAT (Madrid Street Advertising Takeover) is the second international street ad takeover project, and the third in a series of civil disobedience projects intent on changing our expectations of public behavior in our shared environments. For this SAT project we targeted Cemusa bus shelters in 4 heavily populated locations around Madrid. This time, at the request of our Madrid based collaborators, participants were asked to submit only text based works. This fantastic idea allowed us to open up the submission request process to a wide range of individuals including sociologist, teachers, lawyers, gallery owners and anyone with a concern for the curation and participation in public space. Each of the 106 individuals were asked to submit one sentiment they wished to see exhibited on the streets. The result is a variety of unique visions of public dialogue and a glimpse at the possibilities available when we open up our public environment in a truly public way.

Re-branding McDonald’s

Alex Scordelis — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:49:58 +0000

The Billboard Liberation Front have announced “a new advertising improvement campaign” targeting McDonald’s billboards. They’re calling the re-branding effort “I’m Sick Of It.” The first hacked billboard appeared at the corner of California and Hyde in San Francisco.

Looks like they are doing work for Phillip Morris as well:

via Laughing Squid

Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

Nose Picker Ad Modification

Charlie Todd — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:42:08 +0000

Some German pranksters recently modified a bunch of street level advertisements in Berlin and Hamburg by adding some nose picking.

Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

Awesome Digital Billboard Alteration

Charlie Todd — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:43:22 +0000

Posterchild did quite a few digital billboard alterations during his stay in New York last year (including one very special one), but this might be our favorite. The face is of Star Fox character Andross. Even if, like me, you have no idea who it is, it’s pretty damn cool looking!

Andross project page

Madrid Street Advertising Takeover

Billboard Silhouette

Alex Scordelis — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:07:13 +0000

Spanish artist Sam3 specializes in creating massive silhouettes with stencils. This shadowy Sam3 creation appeared on a billboard in Murcia, Spain. (Where coincidentally an Mp3 Experiment will happen on Thursday–Improv Everywhere is holding experiments in 4 cities in Spain on the same day.)

via Vandalog