Comments on: Donald Trump, recreated, cocreated, done like dinner

By: ryo

ryo — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:48:35 +0000

If trump sees the ads, will he be angry? Can he sue the advertiser for giving him such an ugly face?

By: jd

jd — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:45:00 +0000

Oops – correct spelling of the English portrait painter’s name is Lucian Freud.

By: Jim Dingwall

Jim Dingwall — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:25:00 +0000

Grant, it looks like Lucien Freud paid a visit. I wonder if this kind of artful defacement doesn’t defeat its own purpose and call attention to a billboard ad that would otherwise go unnoticed and unremembered. Good grief, I’m also wondering if it’s possible that some creative directors are purposefully creating banal billboard and transit ads that lend themselves to such defacement — talented or otherwise — in the hopes that the add-on vandalism will draw attention to what would otherwise be invisible and as cerebrally arresting as outdoor wallpaper. But no, that’s surely not possible. Forget I said it.

By: Tom Guarriello

Tom Guarriello — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:09:03 +0000

Perfect!

By: botogol

botogol — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:58:20 +0000

A very impressive example of ad-hijacking.

In London for a long time we had ‘coffin’ who used to wittily deface cigarette advertisements. I can’t find any references to him on the web… but there must be examples out there somewhere.

Later, I guess it was the 90s, we had a group who would change poster ads in the most subtle ways, using laser-printed A4 pages, perfectly matched to the fonts and colour background of the poster, to change the text. It was real double-take stuff, as it was hard to realise, if you were whizzing by in a car, say, that the poster had been tampered with. You were left with a ‘Did it really say that????’ moment it was very skillfully done.

At the other end of the grand spectrum of wit, cleverness and irony: in the underground there is a fad for sticking pieces of chewing gum on peoples noses