Comments on: Diesel Aims to Create Largest Outdoor Gallery http://www.psfk.com/2008/03/diesel-aims-to-create-largest-outdoor-gallery.html Ideas & Trends Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:27:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Diesel create outdoor spaces : Freshen me up http://www.psfk.com/2008/03/diesel-aims-to-create-largest-outdoor-gallery.html/comment-page-1#comment-13200 Diesel create outdoor spaces : Freshen me up Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:47:34 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/03/diesel-aims-to-create-largest-outdoor-gallery.html#comment-13200 [...] Diesel are supporting the art world by launching a competition for designers win the chance of exhibiting their work on the side of buildings and giant walls within city centers.  The winners will be displayed in Manchester, Barcelona, Zurich and New York.  The campaign was developed to cut through the thousands of advertising messages we are faced with, to “salvage what precious public space is left and fill it with something worth saying.” The words “pot” and “kettle” spring to mind Mr Diesel but I am interested in seeing the results from the competition.  Via: PSFK [...] [...] Diesel are supporting the art world by launching a competition for designers win the chance of exhibiting their work on the side of buildings and giant walls within city centers.  The winners will be displayed in Manchester, Barcelona, Zurich and New York.  The campaign was developed to cut through the thousands of advertising messages we are faced with, to “salvage what precious public space is left and fill it with something worth saying.” The words “pot” and “kettle” spring to mind Mr Diesel but I am interested in seeing the results from the competition.  Via: PSFK [...]

]]> By: Floyd Hayes http://www.psfk.com/2008/03/diesel-aims-to-create-largest-outdoor-gallery.html/comment-page-1#comment-13142 Floyd Hayes Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:00:18 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2008/03/diesel-aims-to-create-largest-outdoor-gallery.html#comment-13142 Am I missing something or is the Diesel Wall not just a fancy billboard for Diesel where they have blagged art talent rather than pay an ad company to hawk their stuff? Nice enough idea but don't give us this claptrap: "In any given moment in our daily lives we are bombarded by messages we didn’t ask to see. A never ending stream of mass produced cerebral pollution offering at absolute best nothing more than needless want." Are they taking the piss? Does this mean an end to Diesel's relentlessly silly and useless print ads then? Comment piece here from last year sums it up: http://www.climatechangecorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=4840 Am I missing something or is the Diesel Wall not just a fancy billboard for Diesel where they have blagged art talent rather than pay an ad company to hawk their stuff?

Nice enough idea but don’t give us this claptrap:

“In any given moment in our daily lives we are bombarded by messages we didn’t ask to see. A never ending stream of mass produced cerebral pollution offering at absolute best nothing more than needless want.”

Are they taking the piss? Does this mean an end to Diesel’s relentlessly silly and useless print ads then?

Comment piece here from last year sums it up:

http://www.climatechangecorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=4840

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