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Urban Spam In Wired: It’s Madvertising!

Urban Spam In Wired: It’s Madvertising!

By Piers Fawkes on October 24, 2006

The Wired site has an interesting article on Urban Spam by Nick Currie where he compares the Asian attitude towards advertising with the European one:

But Berlin, too, has its share of annoying advertising. It’s not unusual to see the whole side of a building, windows and all, covered by a huge advertising sheet. The city’s cheerful yellow trams often sport a stick-on sheet of halftone appliqué that forms a product image for people on the street, but disrupts the passengers’ view with a mesh of big gray dots.

Wired News: It’s Madvertising!

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