Dec 11, 2007
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.
Dec 10, 2007
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.
Dec 7, 2007
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
Dec 6, 2007
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
Dec 5, 2007
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.
Dec 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:
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:
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.
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."
Nov 29, 2007
Severed Arm Promotes Tarantino Movie
In Amsterdam, a strategically placed severed arm holds a Death Proof DVD promoting the movie and the theater playing it. These zombie hands weren't bad either.
-- New Message
Nov 14, 2007
Nov 13, 2007
FedEx Truck
A FedEx truck with painted UPS trucks in it. Kind of like this and this, but still pretty funny.
- via adgoodness.
Oct 5, 2007
Sep 19, 2007
Outdoor for MINI in Germany
A reader from future:headz sent these in:
"As a result of high pressure caused by competitors, a projection of the interactive MINI Clubman movie was banned by the city after the third day of play. The projection was realized with 4 beamers - alltogehter 80.000 AnsiLumen - that produced a picture of 26 x 36 meters." There's a video on YouTube, too.
"25 hot shops in the city of Frankfurt joined an unpaid viral mission to promote the new MINI Clubman. The sexy boot of the car made the shops double doors the eyecatcher during 10 days of the IAA."
"As a result of high pressure caused by competitors, a projection of the interactive MINI Clubman movie was banned by the city after the third day of play. The projection was realized with 4 beamers - alltogehter 80.000 AnsiLumen - that produced a picture of 26 x 36 meters." There's a video on YouTube, too.
"25 hot shops in the city of Frankfurt joined an unpaid viral mission to promote the new MINI Clubman. The sexy boot of the car made the shops double doors the eyecatcher during 10 days of the IAA."
Sep 17, 2007
Sep 12, 2007
Improper Napkins
Studio Relax Erotik Massage advertises with napkins that create an illusion of a hand in the fly.
- Pantherhouse
Barf Bus Wrap
Lost in translation is that barf means snow in the brand's native language (Iranian?
Aug 20, 2007
Billboard Advertisers Are Idiots
These people are "harnessing juvenile name-calling to fight visual blight and mindshare theft."
- via AdRants
Jul 18, 2007
Jun 18, 2007
Britney Mad Over Billboards
"Britney Spears is threatening legal action against a Florida radio station that used a bald-headed photo of the pop star on billboards that appear to call her sanity into question."
-- The Smoking Gun
Jun 7, 2007
"Dripping Paint" Billboard for Insurance Company
A billboard (actually, all three of them) for Nationwide Insurance. Life comes at you fast, huh.
-- boredstop
Jun 6, 2007
May 23, 2007
May 6, 2007
"Too Much Guinness" Advertising
Guinness created these special cans that it distributed around bars to promote responsible drinking. Blame Canada.
-- directdaily via advertising for peanuts.
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.
