DICKIE WEBB

 It was about this time last year that I stumbled across this site about Sau Paulo and how the governor there is cleaning up the city and has taken drastic measures to do so.  He has removed all advertising from the city which as you can see from yourself in this link has had a dramatic effect of the feel to the city, I can only imagine how it must feel.

http://weburbanist.com/2010/03/06/clean-city-sao-paulo-scrubbed-of-outdoor-ads/

I have been interested ever since in the link between advertis...
Continue reading...

I was introduced to artist Matt Siber a couple of days ago, with his work highlighting our saturation with advertising and isolating the information we are fed.  His works are really quite inquisitive and make you look back and forth as to what is actually being shown in our everyday lives. 


Here is a link to his website: http://siberart.com/

Also checkout bill boards and sign work by artist Mark Titchner that works a long similar lines I am currently investigating..
http://www.marktitchnerstud...
Continue reading...

Before Christmas I set up a collaboration with different creatives I have met around the world.  I sent each one three drawings similar but not the same and asked them to respond.  Their responses are starting to return and I have created a separate blog to document the outcomes.  Alongside their response the creatives included visual prompts for me to now react to, these will also be posted over the coming months as I start to work through these visual starting points...

So for now please enj...
Continue reading...