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Everything Rust On This Poster In 30 Days… Except The Product

Austrian manufacturer Tyrolit showcases the extreme durability and high performance of its product with a mysterious metal billboard. Executed in collaboration with ad agency Heimat Wien Austria, the marketing technique is meant to draw consumer attention to Tyrolit’s Iceline knives. Continue reading »

McDonald’s Turns Billboards Into Bee Hotels

Without pollination from bees, 1/3 of the food we eat would be threatened. It is estimated that 30% of Sweden’s wild bees are threatened. A big problem is that they lack places to live. Continue reading »

The Kensington Futuristic Digital Billboard By Zaha Hadid Design Is Unveiled

UK Digital media company JCDecaux invited Zaha Hadid Design to redefine the design language of outdoor advertising by creating a billboard that integrates contemporary design and digital media. The result is The Kensington, a large twisting sculptural stainless steel ribbon that encloses a giant oval digital screen. Continue reading »

Graphic Designer Uses Gigantic Billboard To Propose To Girlfriend – And Asks For Answer By Text


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Graphic designer Gareth Illidge plucked up the courage to make a big romantic gesture to his girlfriend by designing a billboard. He also added a string of emojis to his very public gesture – and the hastag “don’t say no this cost a fortune”. Continue reading »

A Gruesome Living Billboard, Swarmed By The Undead, Popped Up In London

The stunt, by agency Taylor Herring, promoted the Thorpe Park Resort, which recently struck a deal with U.S. TV network AMC to launch two new live-action attractions based on zombie drama The Walking Dead. Continue reading »

Is It A Billboard? No, It’s A Building!

A new building in Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan Province, has caught everyone’s eye with its “changeable” look. Seen from the south, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a typical city billboard. Continue reading »

Tokyo’s Giant Cat Billboard Is Big Enough To Pet

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A new billboard went up in Tokyo’s Shibuya Station. It’s of a giant black cat. It seems you can pet the giant cat. That, or stick your fingers in its nose. All your fingers. Continue reading »

Artist Buys Billboard Advertising Time to Display Art Instead of Ads on Massachusetts Highways

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Created as a set of billboards along two Massachusetts highways, “Healing Tool” is a temporary public art installation by artist Brian Kane produced to temporarily relieve stress and promote introspection during one’s monotonous daily commute. Continue reading »

Billboard Houses For The Homeless

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Phenomenon of homelessness has became an intensly global question during past couple of decades. Finding solutions to it is a complex task which involves coordination of skills in socio-psychological and administrative fields – to name a few. Priority of the Gregory project is to find optimal alternatives for existentional questions of people without a home through the use of billboard objects and their advertisment spaces. Continue reading »

Water-Cleaning Billboard by Shokubutsu HANA

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Shokubutsu HANA, a beauty brand that believes in the restorative powers of nature, joins the fight to help bring Pasig River back to life with an ad that does more than just send a message. A water-cleaning billboard was created—the first of its kind. Its design and words make use of Vetiver, a plant capable of absorbing wastewater. It is a billboard made of nature, powered by nature, created to preserve nature.

With the help of the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission and Vetiver Farms, the billboard was constructed and placed on the Estero de San Miguel in Manila. Its unique placement enabled it to speak directly to passers-by right when they looked at the waterway.

The brand, along with advertising agency TBWA\ Santiago Mangada Puno are working on more water-cleaning billboards to be implemented acrossother sections of the river to help in its rehabilitation.
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Huge Billboard Made Of 5,000 Bananas Appears in Clapham

A giant billboard made from over 5,000 bananas has appeared on Clapham Common.


A giant billboard made from over 5,000 bananas

The billboard is part of a campaign by the Fairtrade Foundation calling on Government to put an end to supermarket price wars, which it says are driving down the price of bananas and trapping many of the farmers and workers who grow them in poverty. Continue reading »

Human Billboard

Billy Gibby is a boxer, and frankly he has no chance of ever becoming world star in the sport. That’s why Billy Gibby decided to earn some $$ by branding his body. He turned his skin into a billboard where everyone is welcome to advertise their website. GoldenPalace paid $21,000 to put a tattoo of their website on his back. Billy Gibby has gone even further recently and changed his name to Hostgator dot com. Continue reading »