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More favourite billboards

frog — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:48:35 +0000

Here’s a few more of my favourites from the voteforus.co.nz design your own billboard site. First up, well why wouldn’t you vote for this:

Several witty people kept submitting pictures of watermelons, but I like this one better:

What’s going on in this one? Are they looking in each other’s eyes or breaking up? I desperately want to know the back story:

And this one is a sweet switch of generations, reminding us of the other place that lots of new Green support is coming from this election:

Planet casts early vote for Greens

frog — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:25:29 +0000

Al Mansell, an independent candidate for Wellington Central, sent me this video clip from neighbouring Miramar:

A floral tribute

frog — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 08:32:26 +0000

There has been a lot of mumbling and despondency from political candidates and activists across the political spectrum over vandalized and destroyed billboards and hoardings. So I was delighted when I just spotted this sweet little counterpoint on the Wellingtonista:

We’ve already seen political signs bringing out the worst in people, but check this out: floral tributes to support signs for good political parties:

More please!

Big thanks to whoever is doing this.

More praise for Green billboards

frog — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:46:37 +0000

Last week we had Decision 08′s design and fashion blogger Sylvia Giles saying:

Amongst this racket, the Green Party has delivered a billboard that paints a clear and concise picture of where a vote for them will be headed – straight to our planet.

The Greens tap not only into a colour with an obvious connection to their ideology, but a concept that has a pivotal place in our pseudo-identity as ‘Clean, Green New Zealand’. Set to the kind of impressive scenery we pride ourselves on, we are just about tipped off the end of a pier into murky, green waters where something seems a miss. Yet the focal point of this billboard is a child that stands between us and the body of dissolved pounamu-green water.

Then last night John Campbell interviewed Mike Hutcheson, formerly of Colenso, Communicado, and Saatchi and Saatchi and now with the Lighthouse Ideas Company, to talk political advertising. Hutcheson ripped into first National’s taxcut billboard:

“This one in particular looks like it was written by an undertaker… They are trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory … it’s so bland it’s vanilla.”

then Labour Helen Clark effort:

“They must think we’re fools because we see her [the Prime Minister] every day looking like somebody else… If this is a campaign about trust I’m not sure we can trust someone who makes herself look different… Too presidential for my liking.”

Before turning to the Greens:

“Oh, they’re great. They are actually too flash for the Greens. They have someone who knows what they are doing do it for them.”

Up go the hoardings

frog — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:38:28 +0000

With an election date announced it suddenly becomes legal to erect hoardings all over the country. And, it seems this game is not just reserved for political parties. For instance, just near Havelock North, a locality that knows better than most the importance of horticulture to our social and economic wellbeing, these signs have started to appear:

And in the background I see National’s Craig Foss is not taking the risk of using the National billboards we have seen on the internet so far.