A billboard by Actionaid India to fight homelessness.
-- houtlust
Apr 28, 2007
Billboard with Lots of Garbage
"Garbage which was found at Redondo Beach (U.S.), august 21, 2005. was bound together on a billboard."
-- houtlust
Coldsores on Billboards
Want to mess with annoying street advertising? Stop your juvenile behavior and mustache-drawing. Instead, get some sticky cold sores. Amazing.
-- via Outdoor Database
Escalator Turned Printer
A smart placement on escalator belt for HP printer. If you are into printers, check out this idea for Samsung posted a few weeks back.
-- via coloribus
Installations by Mark Jenkins
This has been sitting in my bookmarks forever, but I thought I'd put it out for the record: amazing street installations by Mark Jenkins. That is, it's art. See, we are not all about blatant commercialism here at Billboardom. Although it wouldn't hurt if the headless guy's clothes were branded.
Apr 27, 2007
Neon Signs for Red Zone Deodorant
These neon signs for Red Zones are so cool that I hope they are real installations and not print ads.
Apr 24, 2007
Billboard Made From Ants
An Indian poster for Sugar Free (sweetener?) painted with syrup that attracted ants. More on Ad Rag.
Apr 23, 2007
Giant "CO2 Emissions" Balloon
"To help people understand what they could do in their life, WWF [China] offered 20 tips on energy saving by presenting a puzzle game participated by school children at the ceremony, sending a clear message to the public that saving energy is simple and easy as "child’s play." In addition, a huge balloon, painted in black with words of "driving less and cutting CO2 emission" written on it, was inflated gigantically on spot after being tied to a car’s vent-pipe as a striking manifestation of carbon dioxide by automobiles."
-- ads of the world, wwf china
Apr 22, 2007
Bus Shelter with Curtains
A bus shelter with curtains advertising something called Saturn, in German, which, if you can read it, will be handy on the site where it came from.
Apr 16, 2007
Sao Paolo Goes Billboard-Free
"Imagine a modern metropolis with no outdoor advertising: no billboards, no flashing neon signs, no electronic panels with messages crawling along the bottom.
Come the new year, this city of 11 million, overwhelmed by what the authorities call visual pollution, plans to press the "delete all" button and offer its residents unimpeded views of their surroundings." Flickr set, International Herald Tribute article
It's like the Delete art project coming to life: in 2005, two artists covered billboards on a Vienna street with yellow foil. See a panorama, read more.
Apr 13, 2007
"Stop Colors from Bleeding" Billboard for Detergent
A billboard for Rei detergent that apparently prevents your white socks turning pink by accident when your underwear bleeds in the washer. A few more pictures on Cerebro Criativo.
Kissing Point Promotes Lip Balm
A great fit of an outdoor ad into the context of the particular situation. Labello Lip Balm, Germany.
-- ibelieveinadv
Full Scale Apartment on Billboard
Click pic to zoom in. It's a billboard for a real estate company with a full-scale apartment floor plan on it. Reminds of the Absolut New York billboard, slightly.
-- ads of the world
Apr 12, 2007
Apr 11, 2007
Maryland Puts Criminals on Billboards
Maryland authorities have put up some 30 billboards with famous criminals' names and sentences as part of "part of the Maryland EXILE program, which intends to curb gun use."
-- Examiner
Big-Ass (Literally) Billboard
Hamburg, Germany. Looks like a billboard for a recruitment agency.
-- ads of the world. You have to check out the comments there.
Apr 9, 2007
Church Promotes Itself With Controversial Billboard
Innovative church marketers are stirring controversy with this "Satan Hates Cedar Creek" series of billboards.
Earlier:
iGod Billboard for Church
Laser Graffiti Turns Buildins into Giant Billboards
Gizmag writes about technology "that allows you to use lasers to put temporary graffiti on buildings from hundreds of feet away using laser projection."
Chocolate Billboard Eaten in Three Hours
A British chocolatier Thorntons created an 860 pound (390kg) pure chocolate billboard in London that was 14.5 ft by 9.5 ft large and made from 10 chocolate bunnies, 72 giant chocolate eggs and 128 chocolate panels. The billboard took three months to build. It was eaten in three hours. Pictures on BBC and Yumsugar.
Earlier:
Ford Billboard Made of Grass
Polar Bear Melts To Make Point
I think the bear is melting to prove the point that bears are disappearing. Human mothers are melting, too.
-- the navigator
Outdoor "Car Sex" Wrap Promotes Sex Shop
This car is parked in front of a sex shop it promotes. The windows are covered with an inside wrap to show steamy sex the shop's customers (or managers?) apparently are having. Probably not in the US.
-- more here
Apr 7, 2007
"Smoking Like Exhaust Pipe" Decal
A decal placed over the exhaust pipe to illustrate the effect of smoking. Clever.
-- creative criminal
Apr 3, 2007
Casino Belt as Roulette Promotes Casino
Tough luck. Your luggage is on zero and is claimed by the airline. Very nice otherwise.
-- ads of the world
DIY Outdoor Dentist Ads
Dentist John Mullaly promotes himself with these ingenious DIY ads. (Well, not really DIY, but they could've been.)
Bloody Coasters Promote Safe Driving
Beer coasters with a layer of red ink that's invisible when dry and comes out when moistened. Mumbai. Don't drink and drive. Doesn't look much like blood, though.
-- frederik samuel
Cold Coffee in Ice Cubes
How do you promote a launch of cold coffee? If you are McDonald's in Seattle, you seal it into ice cubes and leave them on the streets to melt.
-- adverbox
Puma Flies Clothes on Balloons
Puma floated 2,000 helium balloons attached with golf shoes and clothes attached to them down Antwerp's busy shopping streets as well as taxi stands, train and bus stations. People who grabbed the stuff were instructed to visit Puma's website by the attached labels.
-- more on adrants
Apr 2, 2007
Samsung Printer Made of 100,000 Sheets
In stores in Colombia, Samsung placed a replica of its printer made out of 100,000 sheets of paper to demonstrate how many sheets per month the printer can print -- that is, 100,000.
-- via ads i like