Projects tagged
Advertising & Consumerism
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Always ‘Like a Girl’ Says the Female Emojis Are Terrible
Read more: Always ‘Like a Girl’ Says the Female Emojis Are TerribleMost brands have expressed eternal love for emojis in recent years, as they try to talk the talk of young people today. Not so fast, says Always’ “Like a Girl” campaign, which points out in a new ad that the…
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Brandalism: Street Artists’ 600 Ad Takeovers in Paris Protest the COP21 Climate Conference
Read more: Brandalism: Street Artists’ 600 Ad Takeovers in Paris Protest the COP21 Climate ConferenceIn a massive act of ‘brand vandalism’ just two days before the launch of the UN COP21 Climate Conference, 600 anti-advertisement posters have been installed in outdoor media spaces throughout the streets of Paris. The posters display artwork from over…
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The Art of Heroin Bags
Read more: The Art of Heroin BagsHeroin sold in the northeast, specifically in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey tends to come in little glassine baggies. The art comes from the individual and unique “stamp” on said baggie sold to a user. Used for branding purposes,…
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Piano Stairs – A New Reason for Choosing Staircases
Read more: Piano Stairs – A New Reason for Choosing Staircases“Piano Stairs” is an interactive playful musical stairway installation created into the Odenplan underground station of Stockholm to make people use stairs more often than elevator. The project was part of a Wolkswagen initiative called “The fun theory” whose main…
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Shift Change Dress
Read more: Shift Change DressShift Change Dress is a community fashion & art project that utilizes a shift dress sewing pattern as a medium for communication and action. Participants are encouraged to use the pattern as a blank canvas for their art or message…
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Burkaphilia
Read more: BurkaphiliaWhen Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d…
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Brandalism
Read more: BrandalismBrandalism, an organization out of the UK that aims to reclaim public spaces from advertisers, used Black Friday to protest “partner” brands to the COP21 Climate Conference. Anonymous artists contributed subvertisements that criticized these brand for their hypocrisy in saying…
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You Don’t Need Stuff To Love Yourself!
Read more: You Don’t Need Stuff To Love Yourself!New York performance artist Matthew Silver is at it again. In his most recent stunt he reminded people that self love can’t be achieved through commodities. Chanting “You don’t need stuff to love yourself” in his underwear at Columbus Circle…
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Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the Streets
Read more: Looping! Finding Your Inner Child in Your Underwear on the StreetsWhat is looping? Somewhere in between art, activism, and wackiness is this liberating experience. Matthew Silver and Fritz Donnelley, two New York City based performance artists got lonely acting silly in their underwear in public. Knowing that there were enough…
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FTSE – A British Anti-Capitalist Rapper
Read more: FTSE – A British Anti-Capitalist Rapper“FTSE” is Birmingham-born producer and rapper Sam Manville. As an anti-captialist, he though it would be funny to take the name of the British stock market index (Financial Times and Stock Exchange), but he also jokes the acronym stands for…