Projects tagged
Advertising & Consumerism
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Real Life Barbie
Read more: Real Life BarbieWe have learnt that Barbie’s body is literally unattainable, but in a role reversal, Pennsylvania-based artist Nikolay Lamm shows us what Barbie would look like if she had the body of a real woman. Using the measurements of an average…
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One Dress Protest
Read more: One Dress ProtestIndependent blogger, Kristy Powell, decided to begin a digital action, beginning on January 3rd, 2011 and ending on January 3rd, 2012, where she would wear one dress for an entire year to call attention to the politics of fashion’s dominance…
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Joey Skaggs: novelty silliness and well-packaged rebellion
Read more: Joey Skaggs: novelty silliness and well-packaged rebellionIn July 1976, prankster and satirist Joey Skaggs, calling himself Giuseppe Scaggoli, appeared before a rabid crowd, dressed in sharp-lapeled finery. He had some unfortunate news: that day’s planned auction of rock star sperm was cancelled due to a mysterious…
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Occupy Barbie Dream-House
Read more: Occupy Barbie Dream-HouseWe at “Left Youth [‘solid] Kreuzkölln” have been around long enough of this policy and its lousy consequences for us. But how to solve the problem now? The problem is clearly the capitalist society for us. Even at school you…
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YOU ARE NOT A SKETCH: Fashion modeling ad campaign
Read more: YOU ARE NOT A SKETCH: Fashion modeling ad campaignLexi Nisita from Refinery 29 writes in her article “Not A Sketch: The Most Creative Anti-ED Message We’ve Seen Yet,” “Brazilian modeling agency Star Models has recently released an eating disorder awareness campaign featuring your typical fashion sketch on the…
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Real Women
Read more: Real WomenThe Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is a worldwide marketing/public relations campaign launched in 2004 that includes advertisements, video, workshops, sleepover events and the publication of a book and the production of a play. The principle behind the campaign is…
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No Shopping, Just Stop It!
Read more: No Shopping, Just Stop It!Internet spreads word as networks shun adverts for Buy Nothing Day Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles The Guardian, Friday 24 November 2000 Today is America’s Buy Nothing Day. An event that was started to poke pointed fun at consumerism is…
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Add-Art
Read more: Add-ArtAdd-Art is a free Firefox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. Created with the support of Eyebeam, Rhizome, Add-Art releases new art shows every two weeks and strives to feature contemporary artists and curators. The plugin…
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Max Factor 26 billboard improvement campaign launches the Billboard Liberation Front
Read more: Max Factor 26 billboard improvement campaign launches the Billboard Liberation FrontFor 35 years, the Billboard Liberation Front have been altering public advertisements in San Francisco under the cover of night, strategically changing words or phrases to invert the intended message of corporate sponsors. Considering their guerrilla reclamation of public space…
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Dyke Action Machine!
Read more: Dyke Action Machine!Taken from the website: Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) is a two-person public art project founded in 1991 by artist Carrie Moyer and photographer Sue Schaffner. Between 1991 and 2004 DAM! blitzed the streets of New York City with public art…