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WebUrbanist | Archived Articles on Subvertising & Counter-Ads

Subvertising is the strange art of using traditional marketing techniques to subvert the normal system of advertising, often with a twist applied to the subvertisement so that it makes one think more about commercial culture. These works of public and installation art reflect an anti-corporate attitude in many cases but these subvertisers more often than not are looking to make a deeper point and engender thoughtful reflection all around.

Good Clean Fun: Interactive Games Tidy Urban Spaces

How do you get residents to keep their city clean - and keep smiles on their faces at the same time? These fun public games are a truly excellent solution.

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Billboard House: Reclaiming Sky-High Commercial Space

This billboard house concept by design team Apostrophy's turns sky-high urban advertising space into livable multi-story abodes with amazing views.

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Art, Not Ads: 13 Creative Billboard Takeovers

Obliterating messages of commercialism, artists take over these huge ad spaces and fill them with nature scenes, paintings, text or subverted messages.

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Spiral Pen Portraits Use Pressure to Make Amazing Art

An advertising campaign focuses on one artist's unique knack for drawing the most detailed masterpieces in a spiral formation.

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Curiouser and Curiouser: Handmade QR Codes Pop Up in NYC

Bridging the often-strange gap between analog and digital communication, the Curiosity Project brought a bit of whimsy to the streets of New York.

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Occupy the Art World: 21 OWS-Inspired Designs

The Occupy Wall Street movement has inspired a vast collection of art and design including posters, projections, sculpture, puppets and scenes made with LEGOs.

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Paint + Sound = Sculpture? [Wild Photos & Videos Included]

Paint and sound combine in an elegant way to create these perfectly impermanent sculptures of color, sound and space which are gone in the blink of an eye.

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History's Hooligans: Three Bad Boys Driving Up Museum Visits

History has earned a bad reputation of being boring. These three bad boys of the past are here to show you just how hardcore history really is.

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27 Fan(tastic!) Home Made Movie Posters

Fans with a ton of enthusiasm and even more photoshop skill have taken their favorite film posters to a new level.

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Rad Rebranding: How 10 Famous Logos Have Changed Over Time

Most of the logos we know and love today have gone through a long list of changes, refinements and overhauls before becoming the images we all recognize.

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