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Graffiti fights back
In response to San Francisco's anti-graffiti advertising campaign, savvy pranksters have come up with a campaign of their own. Stickers like the one on the right are showing up on billboards in the Bay Area.
The small text reads: According to SF Public Works Code Article 23 SEC.1301 graffiti results in visual pollution and is hereby deemed a public nuisance. There's just one thing they forgot to mention...ADVERTISING IS "VISUAL POLLUTION."
(Via Consumerist)
Posted by Charles Star on 07/19/2006 | Permalink
Comments
This is wonderful. I love it!
Posted by: iandavid | Jul 20, 2006 1:30:20 PM
Brilliant, absolutely love subvertising.
Posted by: tch | Jul 20, 2006 5:51:57 PM
Badass. Ads are definitely more polluting visually than graffiti.
Now what about those Graffiti ads, like the ones that have surfaced in Williamsburg and the East Village?
Posted by: d | Jul 21, 2006 2:40:48 PM
There was a huge "graffiti" mural for Hummer in Williamsburg some months back, and it made me pretty ill.
More evolved and expressive graffiti aside, though, I don't see tagging as anything more than the personal equivalent of slapping logos all over everything.
Posted by: Damian | Jul 24, 2006 1:59:32 PM
most definitely true absolute. it ruins my day everyday in the subway(advertising)... and send the people that so disrupt my life to jail for attempted consumerist manipulation... i HATE advertising...
eriko
Posted by: | Apr 4, 2008 4:17:32 PM
