Wednesday 4 June 2008

Sao Paulo No logo: the effect of a city without advertising

I read about this in creative Review aaages ago, but it just cropped up on a blog i came across.

"For the past eight months, Tony de Marco has been documenting the systematic removal of all advertising in the city of São Paulo. Since 1st January 2007 São Paulo has been living under the new ‘clean city’ law, this bans all advertising: no billboards, no fliers, no neon signs, no electronic panels – a blank city "