Creative Criminals

According to some Russian sires, this was a real accident, not a guerilla campaign created by the advertiser. The ‘accident’occurred this winter in a city called Tomsk. You can see a car that slipped and crashed into the billboard. On the billboard it says “Speed must be reasonable”.
Fake or real? What do you think?

This ad was specially made for the wedding between prince William and Kate Middleton. The new Post-it notes Super Sticky are holding stronger and longer. With this play on current events 3M is wishing Will and Kate to stick together forever.

TBWA Chiat Day and Nissan have created a strategically placed, spectacular outdoor board directly outside the New York Auto Show. One side of the board has a working tailpipe that spews exhaust into the air and a headline that points to the 1000+ cars in the auto show that come with them.
Only one of all the cars is 100% electric..

This is a nice optical illusion made for laundry detergent Arial back in 2006. If you get closer to the billboard, the stain simply disappears. The tagline that goes along is: “Disappears easily”.

With the slogan ‘Check in! Snack out!’ GranataPet wanted to gain awareness with a low budget. They’ve placed billboards at potential routes that dog owners walk with their pets. At the billboard they could check in on Foursquare (a check in app for your smartphone), once checked in a free sample of dog food came out of the dispenser at the bottom. Is it however a low budget campaign when you advertise on billboards and create the technology? We have doubts if it real…

Terminix is a pest control service that delivers termite control, flea control, and much more. To show that roaches can bring certain diseases such as E.Coli into a house, Publicis Dallas came up with this special billboard. 5,000 live cockroaches were put into a squirming display. It reminds us of the Plan Bee Billboard
Funny fact; every 15 minutes the billboard had to turn towards the shade for the roaches not be burnt by the sun..

Artist collective █▀██▄█▀▀█ aka. ‘Post’ gave their answer to the new ad projectors in a Berlin subway station. At Post they believe these ad projectors are lifting visual aggressiveness to a new level. Because the images were projected, they could get between projector and projection to fight this new quality of exaggerated advertisement with its own weapons. “Minimalinvasive adbusting devices made of mirrors, magnets and quite some duck tape.”

Remember this classic made by The Economist some years ago? Well Mad Magazine made this very cool spoof on it. This is the typical humor of Mad.

Remember the Ritual project by Stella-Artois? Gillette created a similar billboard in SoHo New-York. The billboard features Derek Jeter, the captain of the New York Yankees baseball team. What’s so special about this billboard you say? It’s completely hand painted and the image changes daily. One day he needs a shave, the day after he is covered in shaving cream and the day after that his skin is smooth as a baby.

After the jump you can see the evolution of the billboard.

Here we go again, the influence of street art on corporations. Gum election is a new initiative, they are calling it modern democracy in New York. These posters enable people to vote by sticking a piece of gum on their choice. In this case they are asking ‘Who sucks the most? Vote with your gum.’ it’s a battle between US mobile providers At&t and Verizon.