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Talk bubble advertising
Designer Ji Lee makes "talk bubble" stickers that he places on street level advertising. After passersby fill in the bubbles with commentary, Lee photographs them, then documents the results at TheBubbleProject.com.
The project creates a forum for some dialogue in public space
typically dominated by advertisers. Oh, and
how it hits a soft spot in my heart! (In fact it was a similar
motivation which inspired a project I did with the Anti-Advertising Agency.) The Bubble Project includes templates so you can print out the bubbles at home and paste them up in your town.
Posted by Steve Lambert on 10/18/2005 | Permalink
Comments
There's some question over whether these actually got posted around town, though.
Posted by: Ben Popken | Oct 19, 2005 11:28:09 AM
Well, you can always download the template, print some, and put them up. Then you could know for sure it happened. Those wheatpasted ads flip at a rate of about once or twice a week. Especially when someone adds their own commentary.
Posted by: Steve Lambert | Oct 19, 2005 1:28:49 PM
This is reminescent of the I Threw Up sticker project.
http://www.ithrewup.com
Posted by: Skip | Oct 20, 2005 1:07:13 PM
it also looks like YOMANGO subvertising, some people in spain, germany and latin america who transform shoplifting into political desobedience. have a look at one of their on line galleries:
http://www.sindominio.net/lasagencias/gallery/subvertising
some pix:
http://www.sindominio.net/lasagencias/gallery/subvertising/che_umsonst
http://www.sindominio.net/lasagencias/gallery/subvertising/catwoman_yomango_I
http://www.sindominio.net/lasagencias/gallery/subvertising/hm_umsonst
Posted by: joan | Oct 26, 2005 2:15:45 PM
Subvertising in its finest form.
Posted by: Subvertising | Jul 10, 2008 1:58:07 PM
