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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.

Advertising Misinformation: How to Fake a Business District

A faltering economy has forced businesses all over the world to shut down. So how do you keep the local economy alive and attract more businesses? You fake it.

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Comprehending Chaos: Designs for Understanding NYC

Living in NYC is confusing enough, but trying to read through government guidelines is nearly impossible. These projects clarify, enlighten and even entertain.

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Stupendous Steps: 15 Great Escalator & Stair Ads

Ads in unexpected places, like escalators and stairs, can be utterly captivating when they take full advantage of the unusual medium.

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More Than Fit to Sit: 15 Clever Bench Ads

Benches aren't always just for sitting - these 15 creative ads use them as an interactive platform to push consumerism, conservation, reading and more.

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Guerilla Marketing: 22 Ads from Bizarre to Brilliant

Guerilla marketing is about using a small budget for big results. Here are guerilla marketing campaigns, 22 ads from bizarre to brilliant.

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Creative Billboard Advertising Campaigns

Some advertisers think outside the box - literally - with billboards that step outside their own boundaries and interact with the world at large.

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Brand Name Boogaloo: 10 Ways Brands & Buyers Adapt To A Changing World

In today's world of information overload and soul-killing McJobs, however, brand saturation is turning marketing mantras on their heads. From debranding to unbranding to back-door product placements, it's hard to know who's selling what - which is the whole point.

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Going Up? 15 Amazing Elevator Artworks & Advertisements

Advertisers and artists take advantage of the captive audience in an elevator with these incredibly creative installations.

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30 Brilliant Vinyl Car Wrap Designs

The custom vinyl car wraps industry is relatively new and rapidly growing. It relies on wildly creative precision graphic design teams and skilled installers.

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Pretty Persuasion: Pumped Up Propaganda of the Past

Propaganda, presented graphically as posters, pamphlets and pictorial artwork, aims to influence the attitudes of people to serve the purposes of the propagandists. Here are 13 examples of propaganda showing it at its best, worst and purest.

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