Women Only
A new kind of outdoor advertisement is being trialled on Oxford Street in London’s West End. The interactive advertisement uses a high-definition camera to scan pedestrians and identify their gender before showing More...
Like Father, Like Daughter
An-Sofie Dewinter, 19-year-old daughter of Filip Dewinter, the leader of Belgium’s Vlaams Belang, poses in a shocking poster for the party’s campaign against Islamization and discrimination of women using More...
Anti-atheist billboard? Banned!
I normally wouldn’t side with a church that’s using ads to mock unbelievers, but it’s hard to understand why the billboard below was banned in South Africa. One complaint—one!—was all it took More...
QR-coded Google Murals
Back in March I was pretty excited by the idea of businesses using their rooftops as ‘Google Murals’ to advertise their company’s locations on Google maps or Google Earth. To me it was like the More...
Contagion: Bacteria Billboard
Okay, what’s up with this “love the bacteria” hype. First there’re the 007-scientists at Tufts University modifying bacteria to be used as undercover mules, now we have the guys at Warner More...
McDonald’s Bad Tasty
One of the fanciest McDonald’s is probably the fast food outlet next to the Spanish Steps in Rome. This golden arches has attempted to blend in with its surroundings as much as possible, and thus you’ll More...
All-Seeing Billboards
Immersive Labs in New York City has created billboards and in-store displays that use facial-recognition software to determine the age and gender of the people looking at them—and can change the ad that’s More...
A Billboard with Emotions
Outdoor media, and billboards in particular, is the one media type that can benefit largely from the modern wireless smart and digitized world. Although most billboards are still so damn stoic we’ve seen some More...
GranataPet Snack Check Billboard
GranataPet found a clever way to create “trial” for their premium pet food brand. Also a nice way to use Foursquare with marketing. The idea goes like this: ‘GranataPet brand dog food figured out More...
Russian Billboard Sentiment
The Wonderbra 3D Boobs billboard from the UK is more impressive me thinks, and I’m not sure if I haven’t seen this done before – although with a car, not with a human body – but the Russian More...
Non-Sign II
Non-Sign II by Seattle-based art collective Lead Pencil Studio might be my favorite public art installation of the year. Located just outside of Vancouver, the sculpture — made from stainless steel rods that create More...
Living Billboards
Billboards might seem like old-school media to many, but occasionally creative advertisers find a way to transform the medium into something different. Here are a couple of very different examples… Where There’s More...