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Copywriting goes Underground

adrianhon — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:17:20 -0800

The London Underground is home to some of the most interesting, weird and fun adverts, which have been tailored to the fact that they have huge posters that passengers are often looking at for minutes at a time while waiting. In Copywriting goes Underground, they challenged ad agencies to write an ad which had at least 50 words in it. Some are crap, but some are pretty innovative - check them out.

Antique American Posters

hama7 — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:47:45 -0800

Poster Glory: Antique American Posters.

Alcohol Nyet!

mathowie — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:28:03 -0800

The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters from Russia's 80's anti-alcohol campaign

Chinese Posters from the 1920s and 1930s

hama7 — Wed, 14 May 2003 03:25:19 -0800

Deco Orient: Chinese posters from the 1920s and 1930s, and, L'affiche Chinoise.

rhyax — Sat, 16 Mar 2002 15:34:40 -0800

"Britney Underground takes you on a tour of poignant urban artistry in a time of crisis." it's a nice collection of graffti from britney spears posters in new york, pretty funny. the negative emails are possibly the highlight.

crunchland — Sat, 15 Sep 2001 00:06:28 -0800

BUY WAR BONDS! An archive of vintage WWII posters, in case you've got a hankerin' for a little bit of that ol' timey propaganda.

JDC8 — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:29:40 -0800

These Posters were an Artbomb that went off across the street from my apartment last night. The posters were plastered over a bus shelter ad and over several other public objects nearby. I was taken aback, as I had last seen those images hanging in an exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art. San Jose has a fairly bad graffiti/tagging problem, but I'm OK with this type of thing. Apparently, the SJPD are too (quoted from the Mercury News): "The poster-pasting could be considered a violation of municipal statutes on vandalism, but San Jose Police Department spokesman Steve Dickson seemed more amused than concerned. "It's not something that we would get involved in unless someone makes a complaint," Dickson said. "Then we'd ask them to take them down. People have a right to political speech." In fact, Dickson broke into laughter at a description of the two posters. "Hey," he said apologetically, "we have a sense of humor like anyone else."