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Poster of the Week: Scribe vs Savage

By: Bob Phantom | 21 April, 2010
Scribe vs Savage

Our Poster of the week this week draws inspiration from the classic two colour boxing poster. Packing a punch on the street the poster is instantly recognisable and conveys the message in an efficent and effective manner.

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Poem Poster Launch in Auckland

By: Bob Phantom | 19 April, 2010

Giving poetry the street visibility of punk and rock and roll, Phantom Billstickers is once again launching a new series of poem posters in late April 2010.  The ten new poems will be launched at a ceremony on the 28th of April at the old Government House, University of Auckland, Princes Street and Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland, New Zealand. The event will take place from 5pm until 7pm.

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Popular artists defy Auckland Supercity logo competition with guerilla campaign

By: Bob Phantom | 19 April, 2010
Weston Frizzell Super City Logo

New Zealand's favourite contemporary pop art duo Mike Weston  and Otis Frizzell are ramping up their campaign to subvert the Auckland Supercity Logo design competition today with their Weston Frizzell style Supercity logo being rolled out via a poster campaign throughout inner city Auckland in defiance of the "official" competition.&nbs

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Phantom Attacks Cookeville, TN: Jeffery D. McCaleb

By: Bob Phantom | 15 April, 2010
Phantom Attacks Cookeville, TN
During Phantom Billsticker's Poem Poster run in 2009, Jim Wilson was generous enough to send me some of the posters of my poem that were plastered across NZ in June and in parts of Tennessee later.

The local University in Cookeville, TN had a bit of an issue with dorming during the Fall 2009 semester & had to house some 90 or so students at a few local hotels, one of which I am employed as a part-time desk clerk.

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The Carson Strat: by Bill Direen

By: Anonymous | 15 April, 2010
Bill Carson's original 1959 Strat

When I was in France a drummer invited me to his practice rooms in a suburb of Paris called Montreuil. We made a good noise together and one jam led to another. I decided to get a hold of a back-up guitar which I could leave in the Montreuil practice room to save me carrying my own guitar across town each time. I wasn’t looking for an expensive guitar, since it was possible that other users of the rooms would use it, and ... you know how it is, perhaps it might be “borrowed” one day and never returned.

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Poster Of The Week: The Pacific Spectacular

By: Bob Phantom | 12 April, 2010
"The Pacific" Spectacular street poster

Check out our latest spectacular install on Symonds Street near Auckland University.

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Poetry Event: US & Kiwi Poets take on the World in Seattle

By: Bob Phantom | 9 April, 2010
Phantom Seattle Poster Event

This event was to Celebrate the launch of the Phantom Poetry Project featuring US poets to toast the arrival in Seattle of the Phantom Poetry Project.

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Poster of the Week: The 4th Auckland Triennial

By: Bob Phantom | 5 April, 2010
The 4th Auckland Triennial Poster

This week’s poster advertises the 4th Auckland Triennial, a cornerstone exhibition of international contemporary art in New Zealand, and a hallmark for contemporary art and dialogue in the Asia/Pacific region. It is staged at venues throughout Auckland including The Auckland Art gallery, Artspace, St Paul Street, The George Fraser Gallery & Shed 6.

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The Kid was from Shake Rag: Phantom Billstickers Mississippi Delta Poster Run

By: Jim Wilson | 31 March, 2010
Phantom Billstickers Mississippi Delta Poster Run
Phantom Billstickers Mississippi Delta Poster Run
 
This was a nice, clean run lasting several days whilst driving through the Mississippi Delta in an old Plymouth Fury procured from a rent-a-junk in Nut Bush, Tennessee. As we got closer to the end, Clarksdale, Mississippi, things became very clear. They ended up being clear as a country creek (Truman Capote).
 
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Poster of the Week: The Oxford Lafayette Humane Society.

By: Bob Phantom | 29 March, 2010
The Oxford Lafayette Humane Society: Paws For Art Auction Poster.

Jim Wilson saw this poster last week whilst in Oxford, Mississippi. The poster (approximately A2 size) immediately drew him in and it had a kind of omnipresence around the town as it appeared in seemingly dozens of locations. The colours are striking and the image of Bella is very heart-grabbing. The details are very clear. There are similar animal shelter/care organisations in New Zealand that need funding to continue their good work.

Here are a few:

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