Dumb
Hundreds of photos of funny billboards and crazy outdoor ads found throughout the world: Plow Art  "Silje went home to the farm at which she was raised and started plowing images of animals onto the field." -- Sponbustion via We Make Money Not Art And this image was captured by a satellite and shows Peruvian farmland. See a bigger picture at Google Maps. 
"Kissing Butt" Bathroom Poster  More bathroom humor, this time for some breath mints from Booktom. The poster is for placement in public restrooms. Earlier: Carefree Bathroom Ads Make Your Own Billboard  Upload a picture and this new Flickr toy will make it into an instant billboard on a busy street. The pic I used is a spec for an advertising class we took last year. "Smoking in Bed" Billboard  Copy on the left-hand side: "Fire Safety Dept, city of Zheleznodorozhny." Copy on the right-hand side: "I was smoking in bed." Moscow. Source: svezhy on LJ. Transparent Billboards  An art project that uses the effect similar to the last year's craze of trasparent laptop screens, where the artist takes a picture of the landscape behind the billboard and then puts it on the billboard itself. Nifty. Via lancelord. Crime Bookstore Outdoor Promo  A campaign by JWT Barcelona for La Librería Negra y Criminal (Noir & Crime bookstore) that takes a page from Sopranos' playbook (below). More pics at Adverblog. 
Yet More Bathroom Humor  Click image to enlarge. Work by Quenstown Signs for Sofitel Melbourne hotel. More details here. You do remember the Virgin Airlines' VIP urinals that caused such a stir a few years back, don't you? By the way, the company that made them - Bathroom Mania - has some nice matching tiles. 
"Report" Poster  Social realism strikes back. "Seen on the MARC commuter train (between Baltimore and DC) today, this picture pretty much sums up the new National Security." -- Articulatory Loop Billboardom is NewYorkTimes'ed Geezuz, NY Times just linked here: "Most outdoor advertising, like most advertising everywhere else, tends to blend together in an indiscernible mélange. Billboardom spots exceptions." Hey, Times' readers, since you are here anyway, check out my other project on advertising technology. Comes very handy for planners in ad agencies. And the MIT Branding Cultures Lab. Talking Mannequins  Picked up on Flickr from Spacecake. No details, but the caption is priceless: "For Six Word Story: Never lose your head over guys." If you into funky mannequins, go this way. McDonalds and Obesity Billboards Very strange. This pic of McDonalds's billboard placed next to an anti-obesity one showed up on the bloggers' radars in mid-September (see AdRants, for example).  Today, Mattymatt on Flickr posted another sighting of the two billboards in close proximity to each other, in San Francisco.  A deliberate campaign? A Photoshop job? Hell Pizza Billboard What is it about superpowers' presidents that makes them so appealing to pizza businesses? The cheesiness? First (in 1997, to be exact), Gorby stars in a commercial for Pizza Hut, then some New Zealand's outfit uses Bush to peddle its own wares (pic from Flickr's kerrynz, here's the scoop).  
Crashed Billboards Blue Screen of Death is not just for desktops anymore. Here are nice collections of billboards gone blue: from Daimyo and from PixelBeat. Below are some of the more spectacular ones.  Ikea billboard from Peter Kaminski  Another crashed billboard from Joy.  Would you like fries with that? (Daimyo)  In the UK, too. (Daimyo again)  A fancy billboard for Sony PlayStation Portable. This one was all over the internet; here the source is Dispositive on Flickr.  Times Square is not the best place for crashed billboards (well, a bit off the Square, across from Port Authority; pic by ihl on Flickr) Bathroom Poster for MINI  Ok, this officially is a week of bathroom advertising humor, complete with urinal art, a butt-kissing poster, and some context advertising for Carefree. Pictured above is an installation in a Canadian bathroom for Mini. Copy: "Test your handling skills". Click image to zoom in. Source: Adverbox. When you go to Adverbox, read the comments, too. Check out an older post at AdLab for more bathroom advertising. Cryptic Billboards Speaking in the target audience's language are these billboards:  A recent "Now Hiring!" billboard for Electronic Arts Canada, a computer game publisher (via Adverbox).  An older recruiting billboard for Google. Billboard for iPod nano in Japan  "As part of their rather unique advertising campaign, huge iPod nano posters now adorn the platform walls of Toyoko Line Shibuya Station. As you depart the train you'll be faced with a stream after stream of 1:1 iPod nano cutouts, in which you can pull off and take home. Obviously, I helped myself to a few as well. Needless to say, with its tens of thousands of people passing through Shibuya station daily, those iPod cutouts won't last very long." -- purpin via Cult of Mac 
Mirrors as Billboards  Interference Inc used hundreds of mirrors as attention-getting billboards in a new campaign for Women & Co. Transparent Umbrella  "These umbrellas were produced by Gloss Hair Salon and given to customers to promote their services. "Hair you want to show off" is the line on the clear umbrellas, perfect for showing off your new hair cut." -- Frederik Samuel Mini Billboards, Part II Continued from Part I. Collected over the time from assorted sources, but many are at the OAAA creative library. Also, here's a large library of great MINI print ads. Click on images to zoom in.        
Edina Realty Bus  A nicely decorated bus for Edina Realty, back from a decade ago. 50 Cent Billboard That Upsets Good People  "Activists want Paramount Pictures to take down billboards promoting the upcoming film "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," claiming the advertisements promote gun violence" (CNN). If you heard the news but haven't seen what it's all about, that's what. Don't you hate how big news sites (CNN apparently excluded) never post pics along with the stories? Triumph Bus Shelter  Copy: "Attention: Glass!" Source: Infopub "Screw It" Billboard  Source: Tyger Lyllie on Flickr Doggie Style  Nothing to do with advertising, but how could I resist? This is a playground decoration. Source: ru_marazm (rus.) Click image to zoom in. "Ronald Coming to Town" Tiles  A trippy wall tiles decoration in a Mexican McDonald's in Calexico. Source: detskiy_dvor (rus), a collection of wacky playground decorations. Gay.com Billboard  A close-up of the gay.com billboard that was taken down by Clear Channel in July after coming under pressure from interest groups. Blimp Gone Wrong  Speaking of advertising blimps. Source: urod.ru (rus.) Coke Truck  Last one for tonight. Back to writing thesis proposal. Don't remember the original source. "Older Men" Billboard  No details on this poster. Click to enlarge. Source: advertka (rus) Billboards for New York Post Billboards announcing circulation numbers for New York Post placed across from the offices of Daily News. From Jessespector.com.  
Tefal's "Doesn't Stick" Billboard  A billboard by Publicis Frankfurt for Tefal. Lexus Campaign's High Tech Billboards  Lexus is launching its new IS luxury sedan using a wide array of high-tech experiments. They are mounting a Time Square photomosaic billboard consisting of pictures people can submit through the website. They have also hired Kurt Wenner, an artist famous for his pseudo-3D street paintings (here's an earlier post on that). Finally, there will be a "full-sized hologram of the car at an interactive kiosk from which the user can rotate the car, change its color and choose to watch a 15-second driving sequence." All work done by Team One. -- via Brand Week, Advertising Lab Abandoned Billboards  "Abandoned billboard poles in the middle of a wheat field" by Tracy E. Clark. Somela "Flying Away" Billboard  Somela Ventilators, "Flying Away", 2004, Leo Burnett Chile. Cabinet of Golden Palace's Curiosities.  Here's the list of the famous eBay-auctioned weirdness - forehead and boob billboards among them - acquired by the Golden Palace casino. Pictured above is a fried Polish dumpling with Jesus's face on it, recently auctioned for a mere $1,775. UK's Tallest Billboard Unveiled  "JCDecaux has unveiled the UK's tallest outdoor advertising structure, which looms seven stories high over traffic entering and leaving London via the elevated M4 motorway. The structure, which has been dubbed The JCDecaux Tower, is situated on the capital's gateway road to Heathrow airport, so that is seen by people leaving and entering the UK." -- Brand Republic, press release See also: World's Smallest and Largest Ads Abercrombie & Crotch Billboard  New York City, 5th Avenue, Abercrombie & Fitch. -- Adrants "Dirty Bitches" Billboard Pulled  "After just one day a billboard in Auckland will be taken down following a raft of complaints from the public. The ad campaign for the Auto Trader website was meant to poke fun at Auckland drivers with the slogan: "We've got rides for dirty bitches." The billboard features two dogs looking out of a car window." -- TVNZ via Adrag Pavement Stencils  "As part of a campaign to promote its new Elle Macpherson Intimates lingerie, Bendon stencilled slogans on pavements and roads in Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland and Dunedin. One Wellington slogan read: "I was in love with a girl once who had breasts on her back ..." followed by a web address. But the publicity stunt displeased Wellington and Christchurch city councils, which said the advertisements breached local bylaws and had to be removed." -- Stuff.co.nz Here are some more pavement ads from years ago brought together by AdLand. Speedreading Billboard  Speedreading.com. Click image to see full size. Copywriter: Matt MacDonald. Source: AdBlather "Drive Carefully" Billboard  Social advertising, Russia. Copy: "Driver! They are waiting for you at home." -- ru_shmarketing Spiderman  June 2004, Union Square, NYC. Source: Marketing Alternatif. "Be Careful" Billboard  Apparently, this social outdoor ad is Brasilian and warns not to cross in front of the bus, but that's as much detail as Marketing Alternatif has. Worker Falls Off Billboard For Mini Cooper One of the last works for Mini Cooper by CPB. New York. Spotted by AdRants at this blog. World's New Longest Billboard  The paint hasn't yet dried on the UK's tallest billboard when Berlin has unveiled the world's longest one. Client: Virgin Express. Length: 1100 meters. "Headline repeats the core message over and over - you can fly from Berlin to Brussels as from 41 Euros - in between jokes to entertain the pedestrians walking by." -- AdLand Boom Times Hit Billboard Industry "Advertisers’ concerns about the fragmentation of TV audiences and the tuning out of broadcast messages have driven demand for out-of-home inventory to levels unseen since the halcyon dot-com days of the late ’90s." -- Ad Age Billboard Paired With Radio  "Tune your radio station to the given digits (88.3 FM, in Toronto) and you will hear the engine of the new Mustang." Brilliant. -- Frederik Samuel Billboards of the Past  A rather big collection of retro billboards at the Billboards of the Past website. Most of the stuff is actually for sale, too. This particular one for Conoco goes for $1,800. Billboards from God  God Speaks: "In 1998, an anonymous donor contacted an advertising agency with an idea for a local billboard campaign that would create a spiritual climate and get people to think about a daily relationship with a loving and relevant God. The agency came up with the idea of creating a series of quotes from God to be placed on billboards." Billboards React to Audience Demographics  "The billboard is listening. In an advertising ploy right out of Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report," electronic billboards in the Bay Area and Sacramento are being equipped to profile commuters as they whiz by -- and then instantly personalize freeway ads based on the wealth and habits of those drivers." Implemented by Mobiltrak. -- SF Gate, 2002 Earlier: Billboard Paired With Radio 400 - 450 of 494 « < 6 7 8 9 10 Note: The content of this site is licensed from Ilya Vedrashko.
|