The astonishment of not be sold anything

Everyday we walk on streets completely surrounded by various kinds of advertising: shop signs, bus stop ads, billboards etc. The result of this massive spamming is that our brain started ignoring them, so we notice only a few.
In 2005 Austrian artists Steinbrener/Dempf decided to let streetwalkers experience a “horror vacui” by covering with yellow drapes all the advertising items in a street in downtown Vienna. The resulting project called DELETE! is really baffling.

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Source: steinbrener-dempf.com

OMG, there’s a Cruise Ship stuck in NYC subway!

If you jumped on your chair fearing another disaster, you can chill yourself: it’s only an advertising stunt made by Royal Caribbean as a part of a wide campaign “The sea is calling”.

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Hyundai is looking for home at Piccadilly Circus

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A change of advertisers at Piccadilly is rare: the last change took place in 1994 when Samsung replaced Panasonic, while Coca Cola is here since 1955.

Hyundai will move into the 1,250 sq ft space previously taken by Sanyo soon this Fall. During the summer, Land Securities (the owner of the billboard spaces) will convert it from a neon light to LED screen.

More info on Telegraph website.

(Image by Clarissa @flickr)