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After studying visual communication in Munich (DE), Anette Lenz moved to Paris in 1990. There she worked with Alex Jordan in "Grapus", and was a co-founder of the design collective, "Nous Travaillons Ensemble". 1993 she started her own studio.Between 1998 and 2001, she created visual communication of the Théâtre de Rungis, for which she...

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Adless World

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A Powerful Medium

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The site-specific

German insurance company showing how billboards can work in relation to their environment. Made by Dusseldorf agency Butt...

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Buddhist Billboard

Large Buddhist painting from Buseoksa. 1684. Hanging scroll 925x577cm. Colour on silk. National Museum of Korea, Seoul.Apparently these types of massive scrolls (9 meters high, more than 5.5 meters wide each) where hung from buildings and/or frame structures to act as backdrops to monastery outdoor events, to be seen from far way and retold...

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The magical outdoors

Images courtesy of Wang Wei, Engkiat Tan and othersThe architect Usman Haque made this project, The Burble, which was an installation performance of fantastic and magical proportions situated in the public space. It is very interesting in terms of how marketing works today and how it’s dictating the use of public space and leading the way...

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My pet billboard

This pet billboard was made by Klein Dytham architecture. Absolutely beautiful.The building is tiny. It’s a 11m long, two-storey high wedge, 2.5m wide at one end and tapering to just 600mm at the other. Although small, it has a prominent position facing a well-trafficked road. Being nearly all front, we let it be what it so obviously wanted...

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The theme park

Standing in Times Square - Its 2006Originally uploaded by .HS.Places like Times Square and Picadilly Circus will in the future become experience museums, amusement theme parks. They are already that, someone just has to fence it and charge entry fee. Check this photo ou...

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Billboards as art

Welcome to Marlboro Country. Smoking when pregnant harms your baby.British photographer Stephen Gill started making the truly beautiful Billboards series in 2004 , where he only depicts the structures behind them and the ad messages. This is not only a brilliant document of our times but the photographs are so immensely captivating in themselves,...

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Digital messages on buildings

Image courtesy of youngdooIntegrating messages on buildings will become a greater challenge for architects, designers and advertisers as public advertising mediums such as the billboard disappear. It gives way to new technology and production methods, but it’s proving difficult to merge the kind of consumer expected interaction we are...

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White as a sheet

Clerkenwell billboard was white as a sheet last night in the cold. View more images on the Outdoor flickr stre...

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A visual polluter

IMG_6896, originally uploaded by Tony de Marco.The city that "cleaned up it's act" by passing a law that banned all public advertising (Cidade Limpa). And the mayor is no leftist revolutionary! It will be interesting to follow up on this and see how it develops. On January 1st, 2007, a funny thing happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The...

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A dying art

A third generation billboard painter speaks about his dying profession.It takes him about a day and a half to paint a billboard, about a half day longer than it used to. Most of his joints now ache from the work, he said. "I have no fear of heights and it's very relaxing up there," he said. "And it's art."No surprise, heckling comes with...

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The birth of a medium

The concept of placing a poster on a structure especially designed for it, rather than simply pasting it on a fence or the side of a building, had been the goal of industry leaders since 1871. This single development, while seemingly modest, was necessary in the effort to make the billboard a medium with an identifiable framework. The standardized...

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The public notice

This book tells the story of the public notice, a precursor to the modern day billboard.Summoned by drum or trumpet to the market-place, the people saw the actual document unrolled – directly, presumably, from the actual hand of majesty – and heard its oracular pronouncement. With the reading done, and the text duly posted, they gathered...

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Wiki - Billboard

First things first. Here is the article billboard on Wikipedia. It's a good introduction but unfortunately very limited to the US market. Let's see if we can change th...

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