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Billboard Advertising Clean Air

A provocative new sculpture has opened at the U.S.-Canada border crossing near Vancouver, BC. It’s a billboard advertising...well, nothing.

The creator, Daniel Mihalyo from Lead Pencil Studio says:

Borrowing the effectiveness of billboards to redirect attention away from the landscape... this permanently open aperture between nations works to frame nothing more than a clear view of the changing atmospheric conditions beyond.

Vintage Cigarette Adverts

I doubt that blowing smoke in a woman's face is going to get this man very far...









source: unbelievable vintage cigarette posters

While You Weren't Watching

thanks to cronicas barbaras

Public Ad Campaign

thanks to urban prankster and public ad campaign

Future Trends in Marketing

Diesel Ads Global Warming Warning

The ambivalence about global warming evident in self involved models in these adverts by Diesel is interesting. Are they appealing to the 'whatever' generation who have inherited a decimated planet? Is the adverising company simply cashing in on the latest 'green' fad?

Far from being about raising awarenesss, this campaign raises antipathy. We are accustomed to the ad industry targeting our insecurites and vulverabilities, does this one target our deep, collective, current anxiety; that the earth will no longer sustain us.

'Oh no! No more planet! So long as we look sexy, who cares?!'

See more images at ad seduction

"Just Tap Water is Fine Thanks"

Tap'd is a bottled water company who purify local tap water in NYC. It is yummy and eco-friendly. They recommend you re-use the bottle and even have a manifesto.

'Year after year, bottled water companies have told us that their water was somehow healthier or better for us than our own water. They spent billions of dollars on marketing to make us believe that we needed exotic water, in sleek packaging, from far away Arctic glaciers, tropical islands, and European volcanoes.
We fell for the fancy marketing gimmicks, too, and the brands we drank started to become status symbols.
But we're New Yorkers and are ready for an honest change. It's time for a better way of thinking, er, drinking: A Tap'dNY Manifesto for the new age.'

No Glaciers Were Harmed Making This Water

source: the ever fabulous swiss miss

The Milgram Experiment

The Milgram experiment was a series of seminal social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960's, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience.

In his 1974 article, "The Perils of Obedience" Milgram summarized the experiment:

'Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.'

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