Artforum article and my work in a show at OSU

Print Wikipedia: Mission Accomplished

Two new videos and more Print Wikipedia press

Print Wikipedia featured in The New York Times, exhibition opens

Announcing Print Wikipedia

My new work in David Horvitz' Cigarette beetle

Fake It! (Limited Edition) at Fabrica de Pensule

Downloadable exhibition organized by David Horvitz

The Social Media Reader reviewed on Hyperallergic

Terracycle upcycles waste and recycles corporate branding

Terracycle upcycles consumer waste into new salable goods. They primarily harvest their raw material from schoolchildren as part of charity drives, though they are now placing recycling stations at certain Walmart stores. At the Walmart centers they pay 3 cents per piece, but only for a narrow range of product packaging; the website supports a […]

Collaborative Futures, 2nd Edition

Bright Bike mod in Brooklyn

Vintage Ad Browser

A site called Vintage Ad Browser has over 100,000 categorized advertisements from today all the way back to the 1840s. Categorized by type and date. A great resource for research. (tx @twhid)

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What advertisers pay to catch your wanderi…

Bright Bike on Kickstarter

Advertisaphobia

Is there a word for the irrational and/or rational fear of becoming the target of direct marketers?

Advertisaphobia?
Adverphobia?
Adphobia?
Ad-phobia?

Related posts:
Official Foundation for Freedom Press Release
Advertising Age: “We Hate Ours…

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This makes me angry

This makes me wish I had a big fat marker with me to cover this up in something other than this insidious shit. And i don’t really ever have the impulse to tag.

Canal and Broadway. All you Chisel-tippers and KRINKers go after it.

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From the Archive… Q: Head Scarf?

From October 2008… this post was caught in WordPress limbo. I publish it now, well after this NYC microtrend has gone national, if not global. The questions remain the same, the scope has just increased… I’ve noticed a new NYC microtrend of people wearing billowy checkered cotton scarfs around their necks. They remind me distinctly […]

Who owns & who controls public space?

Two things happened on my bike today, one which is about advertising and the other isn’t but both are about public space and it’s uses and controls. One: who owns the street sign posts This morning I rode my bike to a not-so-close subway stop because I had to run into Manhattan for a meeting […]

The Best Workshop Description EVAR

Ad Creep: Health Insurers Bribe Users of Facebook’s Mafia Wars

I guess there is a reason they call it Mafia Wars. Business Insider has broken a story about insurance company shills paying Facebook users into sending emails to their Congressional Representatives opposing health care reform. This is interesting in the context of the Health Care debate (see the attempt to push Komen for the Cure […]

Give me my damn three feet!

Steve sent me someone’s inquiry that came in off of the AAA contact page. Usually these are either “hey you guys rock” or they are lost advertisers who try to sell ad space somewhere they shouldn’t and don’t get it when we shame them. Here’s the full email. I put it out there in full, […]

Off to Berlin: Transmediale/FLOSSmanuals book sprint

Bright Bike - STOLEN!

Corporate Giving, Social Networking, and the Devil

Corporate giving is a bad enough deal with the devil, but take corporate giving and mash it up with social networking, and wow! Not only does chase have you scurrying about to give them PR/branding impressions, they get all your personal data in the pr…

Digital Foundations goes to reprints

New Bright Bike kits coming soon

Richard L. Nelson Gallery: Black Market Type and Print Shop

“black market type and print shop” - artforum.com / archive

Digital Foundations Textbook master file on Legal Torrents

State of Emergency on Friday, plus some...

FLOSS Digital Foundations Live!

New Stencilano, version 0.4.2

FLOSSify 1: Digital Foundations

Unrecyclable is CC Licensed

Bright Bike workshop was great success

Rhizome Edition

Takeovers post game and Roadshow pregame

Press Release: March 15th launch announcement