Subvertising in Manchester

mc svt | 29.09.2003 12:23 | Culture | Globalisation

A collection of subvertisied billboards photographed in Manchester over the past few months.

FCUK billboard - think harder

FCUK billboard

Wake up to Fairtrade

We Bomb - They Die, technology from USA

May contain nuts - and air pollution...

L'Oreal - tested on animals

Our city is covered by billboards paid for by corporations who tell us what to buy what to think and what to do, yet graffiti, stencilling and stickering are illegal. Only money allows companies to pollute our visual environment, to claim they can make us sexier, freer, richer and more fulfilled.
Billboard subvertising takes away the power advertising and corporations have over our lives while allowing us to create something new and positive.
For a guide to suvertising check out:

http://www.uhc-collective.org.uk/street_art/howto.htm and for ideas take a look at Http://www.subvertise.org
So get on with it and keep your eyes open for ideas!

mc svt
Homepage: http://www.subvertise.org

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Reclaim the sky

29.09.2003 14:55

Very nice. I'm always cheered to see appropriate graffiti on these sinister ads. It's a wonder the companies don't have them pulled quicker - I've seen some in London that stay up for ages with anti-corporate/anti-imperialist slogans on them. If advertising "works" so they say, you gotta think that subvertising works too! Good stuff.

Thou

bad

03.06.2014 17:43

I dont think these are really subvertising more bad graffiti. I would like to see targeted and well designed subvertisements in manchester!

tom

UK Indymedia

Subvertising in Manchester

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Reclaim the sky

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