Last year, a funny thing happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The city of approximately eleven million people, South America’s largest, awoke to find a ban on public advertising. Every billboard, every neon sign, every bus kiosk ad and even the Goodyear blimp were suddenly illegal. Photographer and typographer Tony de Marco has documented the cityscape with the bare billboards and painted store front facades.
São Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising
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1 comments:
Boring City!! That was my first reaction but while reading this article, I realized that it's a good idea. As the matter fact, almost all in advertising were purely lies. Agree..?
Well, I was thinking what if it will happen to our country. Oh yea, lots of people will losts there jobs. tsk.. tsk..
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