Thursday, 6 January 2011

Draw Your Own postcard




 i was thinking that for the advertising that postcards should be used because you can easily can order for a vast amount of custom design ones to be printed, they are a good size and can be left in public places. these postcards will be mostly blank so that those who find them can express their own creativity and pass them on to another person. 

For the website: Interactive map

I was thinking, to promote a stronger sense of community within the website, that there should be an interactive map of the city so people can pinpoint the location of the latest piece of advertising art or media. Like Flickr where you can upload images on a map and others can leave comments.

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Augmented reality

one small step for man, one giant leap for mobile technology.


"Augmented Reality (AR) is the phenomenon adding virtual elements into our physical reality. These additions are viewable by pointing your contemporary smartphone to the world around you. The phone knows where you are (because of GPS) and with this data it connects to the internet to get the relevant images, visuals, 3D shapes and it puts them into your view.
‘AR’ technology allows anyone to (re-)shape anything, anywhere!"


Skeleton Keys to New York

The city-wide security breach is part of the public art project Key to the City. Anyone can simply retrieve free keys at a kiosk in Times Square, and those keys unlock 24 locations across the city's five boroughs, which are listed on the Key to the City website. These locations include secret gardens, hidden rooms, and tiny electrical panels.
Since it launched last Thursday, hundreds of New Yorkers have already participated in the large-scale scavenger hunt, which borrows its name from the symbolic welcoming gesture relegated to visiting dignitaries and heads of state. The piece was conceived by Honduran-born artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, who has worked with keys before, to symbolize ownership and civic pride.