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As much as we appreciate a clever billboard, there is something very classy and almost charming about the advertising columns that seem, unfortunately, to be more widely used in Europe than in North America. Unreality rounds up some 10 Creative Column Advertisements that make us envious of European street furniture, although we’d like to add [...]

Have a seat, son, we want to talk to you about something very important. We understand why you have stopped paying attention to ads. After all, they’re everywhere and generally extremely idiotic, but one day you’ll coma across an ad that you’ll have strong feelings for, feelings you might not know how to express. When [...]

We’re all for clever and subversive street art, especially when it’s done to surfaces that more or less deserve it, as is the case with many of those so-called vandals whose work is featured in Manofest’s listicle of The 25 Funniest Moments in Vandalism History. We especially like the playful revenge a graffiti artist took [...]

Weirdly, as much as we love great ads, we end up remembering some of the worst commercials and billboards we see for longer because, well, really, really bad advertising is kind of a amazing. And just like good ads have the Cannes Lions, so crappy ads have the Tracy Awards, which reward the worst of [...]

Generally we’re a little frustrated by how many of the images we encounter on the street in a given day are commercials, not to mention that most are poorly conceived and thoughtlessly executed. If we were starting a new society (which we do almost ever day, in our mind) the streets of its cities would [...]

Advertising condoms is, by its very nature, a tricky business, since one has to ride a fine line between being too explicit in reference to sex, while also not being so oblique that people misunderstand what’s being sold. More than other condom companies, Durex has had a fun time playing with that line, deploying double [...]