Global Graphica

We spotted these new “NYOJ” Tropicana orange juice cartons on the shelf of a cafe in Midtown Manhattan.

The live-video installation and pop-up store for Giorgio Armani eyewear in the Meat Packing District during Fashions Night Out, a massive global retail event that coincides with New York Fashion Week in autumn, when designers’ Spring/Summer collections are shown.

Absolutely brilliant idea for an Apple Store display: Suspending a new MacBook Air laptop from a floating balloon.

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.

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 artist Shepard Fairey was arrested at a museum exhibition of his work in Boston last Friday. According to the
Boston Globe, Fairey was arrested at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) as he arrived for a sold-out event, part of the Supply and Demand show of his work, where he was scheduled to DJ. He spent the night in a Boston jail.
The artist will appear in court Monday.The police nabbed Fairey for wheat-paste posters the artist allegedly put up in two public Boston locations discovered in January. Fairey has become practically a household name in recent months as the creator of the iconic, blue-and-red Barack Obama “Hope” posters that were ubiquitous in major cities across America during the later stages of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.

More coverage below:

LA Times: Obama ‘Hope’ poster artist Shepard Fairey arrested
Sydney Morning Herald: Artist behind presidential image arrested
Newsday: Nation briefs: Obama poster artist arrested

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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Shot of the amusing new ad campaign for fictional “Be Kanye” product — pills that turn you into hip-hop megastar Kanye West. This ad is by Absolut vodka and is appearing on New York City subway trains.


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Close-up of detail from amusing new ad campaign for fictional “Be Kanye” product — pills that turn you into hip-hop megastar Kanye West. This ad is on the interior of New York City subway trains. The behind-the-scenes company behind ad campaign is Absolut vodka. The ad has nothing to do with Absolut, but we presume it’s a way to generate some buzz and get people talking (or blogging) about it or posting pictures of it (hey, OMG, it worked!)


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Olympia beer stencil, Lower East Side, New York City.


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Wide shot of Olympia beer stencil, Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York City.


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Detail of Olympia beer stencil, Lower East Side, NYC.


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Example of the street art medium as appropriated by brand marketers: Olympia beer stencil on a lamppost base on Orchard Street, Lower East Side, New York City.


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Fresh Keith Haring homage on Houston Street, New York City. Love it.


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