Social Campaigns: Say it with few words

Two more examples of simple but intriguing ad campaigns. The first one is for Amnesty International on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the second one for Greenpeace USA from their Anti Global Warming campaign.

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The world is outside

Simple is often the best. Excellent ad campaign seen in a London Cab
via Invisible Red

Guerrilla Advertising

Guerrilla marketing: Plenty of free ad space still available
via I believe in adv

New York: Neighborhood maps

There is of course the official neighborhood map from the N.Y.C. Dep. of City Planning that maps the 59 community districts but most New Yorkers have a few more names for their neighborhoods.
There is Hell’s kitchen, the Meat Packing district, the Theater district and many more that are not included in the official maps.
Coming Anarchy [...]

Images: Sign of the Time?

The picture below was taken at Colombia’s largest public university (Universidad Nacional “la Nacho”) in Bogotá. Every year after the university campus is painted white, the same graffiti reappear since the late 60’s showing heroes of the “revolution”.

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via Wooster Collective

Advertising: Honda Samurais

Advertising and arts not necessary exclude each other. Below there is another fine example of how the two go well together. The ads shown below are for Honda helmets. The style used is similar to ancient Japanese drawings from the age of Samurai.

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via Coolz0r

Game on: Huge interactive computer game exhibition in London

From today you can explore the history and culture of computer games at the London Science Museum huge interactive computer game exhibition Game On. More then 120 classic and modern games - from the world’s first computer game of 1962 up to the latest of todays advanced computer games - will be shown and [...]

Weekend activity: Cloud spotting

With the weekend coming up we would like to suggest to you something different: Cloud watching or cloud spotting as its also called by UK based Pretor-Pinney who has founded the Cloud Appreciation Society. The society now has about 5000 members from 39 countries.

38 year old Oxford University graduate Pretor-Pinney who calls himself a [...]

Douglas Levere: New York time travel

While already out since quite some time, its still great to have a look again. In his book New York changing Douglas Levere presents images taken by himself and pairs them with those of Berenice Abbott’s from the 1930s.

Levere used the same camera Abbott had used and returned to the same locations at the [...]

Street life: Cardboard house paintings from Japan

Japanese web site Cardboard-House-Painting has a set of galleries online with photographs of cardboard shelter paintings from people who lived on the street in Japan’s homeless city that was created around the Shinjuku Underground station’s in the mid-1990s.

…Hundreds of cardboard houses grew up in the underground passageways of the west exit. On each of [...]