🌊 Matteo De Micheli
s0: ~/._backupReplace all advertising with street art, murals and community noticeboards 2020. You can advertise your business only on the physical property you operate from, or specific exceptions for wayfinding signage. Everything else goes. Put up maps of local areas so it’s possible to find ones way around without online maps or any device.
Imagine if blank concrete/brick walls were considered unsightly. Imagine if there were local guilds of artists & creatives paid to express themselves and make the place look brighter.
The Armchair of Doom@s0 I kinda hate excessive colour mess. Makes me want to get a guide dog and close my eyes. But it's still better than sheer white walls.
inky (թանաքոտ)part of the appeal of jain narrow streets. I think people come to see times square in NY also because of its atmosphere that created partly by ads.
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What is your behavior on the web, do you block ads? I do. But my mother, who had seen soviet grayness, asked me to turn off ad blocker, when i assumed she'd like one. She was also impatiently waiting for businesses to open up on our street to see the boards and life. And she's not consumer, that's about longing to the missing aesthetics of the life with free market instead of emptiness of socialistic shops and rudeness of sellers.
What is your behavior on the web, do you block ads? I do. But my mother, who had seen soviet grayness, asked me to turn off ad blocker, when i assumed she'd like one. She was also impatiently waiting for businesses to open up on our street to see the boards and life. And she's not consumer, that's about longing to the missing aesthetics of the life with free market instead of emptiness of socialistic shops and rudeness of sellers.
@inky@թութ.հայ I think you’re missing my suggestion that ads not be removed, but replaced with art & design wherever possible. Drabness was not the suggestion.
patience, doing up live 🎧🎚📻
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Ben Lubar (any pronouns)@s0 make the world look like a dwarf fortress run where I got bored and designated the entire map for engraving
Robin Syl 🌸
@s0 They got rid of advertising billboards in São Paulo
Clean City Law: Secrets of São Paulo Uncovered by Outdoor Advertising Ban - 99% Invisible
When São Paulo introduced its Clean City Law (Lei Cidade Limpa) a decade ago, over 15,000 marketing billboards were taken down. An additional 300,000 ostentatious business signs, hanging over streets or painted in large letters on facades, were also subject to a hefty fine if they were not removed promptly. Bus, taxi, and poster advertisements had
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Matt@s0 That's a fucking awesome idea.
The research fairy@s0 Yes, this!!
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Jonne Arjoranta@s0 Sao Paolo did this.
Clean City Law: Secrets of São Paulo Uncovered by Outdoor Advertising Ban - 99% Invisible
When São Paulo introduced its Clean City Law (Lei Cidade Limpa) a decade ago, over 15,000 marketing billboards were taken down. An additional 300,000 ostentatious business signs, hanging over streets or painted in large letters on facades, were also subject to a hefty fine if they were not removed promptly. Bus, taxi, and poster advertisements had