Billboard With Sun and Rising Water Level

This WWF billboard uses an awning (a cover, sort of) to cast a shadow that rises throughout the day as the sun moves. If you are reading this on a feed reader, come see the video of the billboard in action.

Here's another billboard that similarly uses sun and shadows and a lot of aluminum pegs to advertise sunscreen. And another sun-shadow billboard for Volkswagen.

Billboards Throw Snowballs

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Coloribus: "Fido, a Canadian wireless provider, created the billboards in conjunction with Bos, Toronto to celebrate the holiday season and promote wireless video calling. They feature a man and a woman each projected onto separate buildings. Initially both are static and then suddenly the young couple begins to interact with one another as video is projected onto the buildings."

Here's another video of the billboards shot by a passer-by.

Billboard: Passed Out Woman In The Bathroom

Stickers of passed out people placed in bar restrooms to warn against drunk driving. More on Cherry Flava.

See also a dead woman sticker.

"Serial Rapist" Billboard

A PSA billboard in Arizona. If you see this guy, call the number.

Retro Billboards: I'm Pulling for Ike

Love this collection of retro billboards -- and they are for sale, too.

Billboard With Undewear Snatchers

Irresistible scent, huh? Pervs.
- flickr

Billboard: Japan Runs on Dunkin'

This billboard probably says something like Welcome to Fenway, but it is in Japanese.
-- Flickr

Billboard: God Listens to Slayer

Fresh Salad Billboard

A billboard for McDonald's made of fresh salad. If you like it, you'll enjoy another billboard from Ford made of grass.
- adgoodness

Billboard For Car Facing Backwards

A billboard for Peugeot in Denmark facing workers on the scaffolding, saying "For Builders and Other Hard Working People".

Billboard - Dude in a Vending Machine

More of a decal than a billboard of a guy working inside a vending machine. You think you got shitty job?

Billboard for MINI Xenon Headlights

Another great billboard for MINI from Canada, winner of 2007 Bronze Cannes Lion for outdoor.

Other great work for MINI:

• Outdoor for MINI in Germany
• Yo-Yo-Like Billboard for MINI
• Mini Underpass Billboard
• Mini Billboards, Part III
• Boobs Painted on MINI To Advertise Something
• MINI Slides Off Billboard
• Another Billboard for Mini
• Mini Billboards, Part II
• Bathroom Poster for MINI
• Mini Billboards, Part I
• Worker Falls Off Billboard For Mini Cooper

Solar-Powered Billboards

A solar-powered billboard for NEDBANK in South Africa won an award at Cannes Lions earlier in 2007






"Pacific Gas and Electric's new solar-powered billboard, just off Interstate-101 in San Francisco. The placard generates enough energy to power the household of a family of three to four people during the day." LiveScience, Curbed SF. Unveiled on December 4, 2007.

Giant KFC Billboard on Google Earth

That giant face of Col. Sanders that KFC laid out in a desert a year ago can now be seen in Google Maps and Google Earth, which kind of answers the question about how often the satellite images are updated. The annotations people attach to locations in Google Earth are lovely, too.

See the video about how the face was built (via Google Earth Blog):


Earlier:

• So Much for the Giant iPod
• Giant Maxim Billboard in Nevada Desert
• Giant KFC Logo Seen From Space
• Advertising with Google Maps
• Clarification: Rooftop Advertising

Bathroom Advertising And New Game Input Devices

This German campaign against drunk driving gives a new meaning to the word joystick:
"The Piss-Screen (the site's dead) is a pressure-sensitive inlay for urinals. The game is displayed on a screen above the urinal. We designed a driving game in the style of Need for Speed." The game would end with a crash and display a message to the effect that the player should take a cab home.

There was one other game art project with the similar input mechanics last year, only then the display was inside the urinal.

Anyway, here's a video of the gameplay:



Earlier:

• Heat Activated Urinal Billboards
• Bathroom Advertising Round-Up
• PSP Advergame on Urinal
• Bathroom Poster for MINI

Billboard Pees to Protect Environment

Clever ad people in China created a billboard with a giant butt on it and placed it above drainage pipes. Ads of The World has more.

Billboard for Naval Museum in Canada

Three billboards (one more here) for the Naval Museum of Alberta, Canada.

Giant Donkey Kong Billboard for Game Museum

A billboard on the facade of the Computer Game Museum in Berlin that looks like a level of Donkey Kong game.
-- marketing alternatif

Live Billboard by MTV

A live event in Portugal by MTV against women trafficking with celebrities standing in the billboard.
- ptfolio

The World of Billboards 2.0

Billboardom got facelift! The cow is courtesy of Honest Cow-o-Matic, where you can create a billboard just like this one.

The Bad Billboard Project

The Bad Billboard Project wants to change the world: "I see billboards that are unreadable, outdoor advertising that makes me less likely to buy something from the advertiser, and only once in a while a billboard that works. But rather than going on a rampage and burning down the offensive tripe, I can now just blog about it and work out my frustrations with no harm being done other than the potential embarrassment to the advertisers."