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( Red ) “2015″ campaign advertisement mural on the side of tenement building on Mulberry Street in Nolita / SoHo, downtown New York City.

Our Global Graphica friend and all-round creative force of goodness,  Richard, sent us this pic from the road and it put a massive smile on our face: The “Meat Without Feet” truck somewhere in the wilds of greater New York City suburbia (quite possibly Conneticut). Clever touch of marketing. LOVE IT.

Image Copyright 2011 Richard Haase. All rights reserved.

Billboard for the World Basketball Festival at the corner of Lafayette and Houston streets in SoHo , in New York City.

This recent billboard for Calvin Klein in SoHo, in New York City, used a massive QR code as part of a marketing tactic. Viewers can get information by using their cellphone camera to scan the code.

Beautiful Louis Vuitton ad on the back cover of the Economist magazine. Three generations of globally-famous soccer superstars appear in the ad: From left to right, Pele (Brazil), Zinedine Zidane (France), and Diego Maradona (Argentina). The advertisement ran during the final weeks of the recent 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Each of these players has played in the tournament. That they are playing “foosball” (“fussball”?) is a brilliant touch.

The side of this building at Canal and Mercer streets on the Soho-Tribeca border in New York City has for years been a giant outdoor billboard space for Rockstar Games, the videogame unit of Take Two Interactive that gave us the Grand Theft Auto series. Here we see an ad for one of there new titles, “Red Dead Redemption,” which comes out in May 2010.

This billboard advertisement for Absolut, the Swedish vodka brand in NoHo, in downtown New York City, is striking for a couple of reasons.

One is that billboard champions the photography by announcing the “collaboration” of the model and photographer for the ad. This is in line with Absolut’s long-standing tradition of supporting, promoting, sponsoring and co-opting art.

The model is the hottish up-and-coming actress Zooey Deschanel, who appears here in a sexy, sassy style in sharp contrast to many of the characters she portrays in film.

The photographer is well-known former model and fashion shutterbug Ellen von Unwerth.

The second striking thing is that the billboard is actually two billboards that allow for a both the standard horizontal composition and the vertical part of the photography and Deschanel’s figure.

From our Design and Cool Spaces file: The “Lower East Side Ping Pong Club” is a newly opended, temporary storefront table-tennis space in downtown New York City (on Grand Street, near Norfolk Street) that’s part of a collaboration with sneakers brand Puma and Grand Opening, an event-marketing agency that produces pop-ups stores. We love this!

Sweet little collection of concert and club-event posters in downtown Athens, Greece.

Street art New York City: Reebok pop-up store on the Bowery, Chinatown.

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New York Street Art: MTV graff roller shutter in the Lower East Side, NYC.


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New York Street Art: Image from the design documentary film “Helvetica” showing a close-up of provocative American Apparel billboard ad in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The billboard has the Helvetica font in its design.


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New York Street Art: This image shows a still frame from the awesome documentary film “Helvetica,” which as we all know is a font. Indeed, the movie is about this font. We recently watched the film on our laptop and were stuck by this image of a provocative American Apparel billboard ad at the intersection of Allen Street (1st Avenue) and Houston Street, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, near Global Graphica HQ.


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Miami Graphic Design: Poster for the Rhythmatik club DJ event in Miami. Love the Star Wars film imagery and style — the line drawing of a Storm Trooper wearing headphones and the movie’s iconic movie typography.


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LeSportSac wheatpaste in SoHo, New York City. “Street art”? No, it’s advertising.


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LeSportSac wheatpaste in SoHo, New York City. But if it’s an ad for an established commercial brand is it “street art”? “No,” we say. But is it aesthetically relevent? “Yes.”


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The wheatpaste street-art as part of advertising campaign for sporty designer-bag brand LeSportSac in SoHo, New York City. We actually like the design concept, despite the perversely obvious marketing behind this “street art.”


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The wheatpaste street-art medium used for an advertising campaign for sporty designer-bag brand LeSportSac in SoHo, New York City. Whatevs.


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The logotype of sporty designer-bag brand LeSportSac appears on this zipper-themed wheatpaste posters we’ve been seeing lately on street lamp posts around downtown Manhattan. Looks like a case of the increasingly frequent co-opting of the street-art vernacular by marketing and advertising peeps to reach the “the kids.” Interesting effort, but it’s so obvious. Whatevs.


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Another shot of the ESPN outdoor/billboard ad (on Delancey Street near Elizabeth Street in Nolita, in NYC) made of actual fake stadium turf.

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