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It Only Happens When It Rains

There’s nothing new about guerrilla advertising, but this is quite special and pretty pop-up as well. Amsterdam-based advertising and design office MISTERWILSON invented a guerrilla campaigning strategy depending…

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The Urban Underwater Experience

I often get jealous at advertising creatives. They are able to create atmospheres, situations and places that are unthinkable of in the real world. They are able to create illusions…

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On Kiosks, Part 4: Moscow

I like to add my part to the kiosk series that Jeroen came up with lately. The two tiny little kiosks on the picture…

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Tape Is the New Graffiti

Today I stumbled upon the work of New York-based artist Aakash Nihalani, who invented a no-nonsense, effective and creative form of sticker art by taping up the walls and streets…

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On Kiosks, Part 1: Urbanism

We all know the kiosks on the busy streets of our world cities — those small, neat pop-up booths that sell about everything, from newspapers and magazines to cigarettes…

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Bratislava’s Upside Down Highway

Dutch office NL Architects have transformed a boring and brutal modernist facade in Bratislava to an upside down highway. The project is presented at an exhibition…

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Guerrilla Gardening in Newspaper Boxes

Toronto-based street artist Posterchild has been turning unused newspaper boxes in his city into planters. Very nice work. He explains:
“I’ve always been amazed by the…

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Earthmine: Digital Street Art in Digital Cities

Earthmine is an interesting 3D mapping application that uses a Google StreetView-like environment extended with a virtual layer on the buildings upon which users can draw legal graffiti.…

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The Future of Postal Administration

Innovation is slowly taking the old-fashioned postal services to a next level. Companies like Zumbox come up with new ideas for distributing mail, breaking the borders between paper…

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Flexible Plastic Sleeping Cocoons

Social designers frequently come up with new ideas to make life better for homeless people, like the famous tent project in Paris. The Shelter Cart project

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Phantoms in Public Space

Eindhoven-based design firm EDHV initiated the Phantom Project, addressing the issues of street safety during night time. For LEV magazine they created a series of…

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Nottingham’s Blind Spots

Yesterday I realised how many articles on this blog apparently deal with the topic of urban guerrilla movements. This is another interesting one that makes people aware of privacy infringement…

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Guerrilla Bicycle Lanes

Living in bike city Amsterdam I can hardly imagine how it is to fight for bicycle lanes in your city. In Toronto a group called the Urban Repair

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Street Advertising the Flexible Way

Chicago-based brand marketing studio Alt Terrain is specialised is new collaborative marketing campaigns. They have designed a live mobile billboard to bring outdoor advertising to life. The

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