His name is Bill Brinton, and he’s a man with an inapt first name if there ever was one because he’s a hero to anti-billboard activists: It’s called the Sign Code Shakedown. Outdoor advertising companies are challenging the legality of billboard regulations across the United States and causing municipalities to spend hundreds of thousands of [...]
The 2008 Symposium planned for Thursday, April 10, [PDF] will focus on billboard control. IllegalSigns.ca will be speaking about the Toronto experience.
Back in September, we took a look at Illegal Billboards in San Francisco. Above is a photograph of a real Clear Channel 12′x25′ in San Fran. IllegalSigns.ca gives cheers to the people of San Francisco and to San Francisco Beautiful. On Tuesday, San Francisco voters voted yes to Supervisor Jake McGoldrick’s Proposition K. Prop K [...]
Advertising is now overwhelming the fundamental character of the some of the greatest neighbourhoods of America. It’s time for all of us to open our eyes and see what’s happening to our hometowns. We need to start an urgent national conversation about the character of our highways, our streets, our neighbourhoods before that insatiable vinyl [...]
IllegalSigns.ca is a team of volunteers who fight illegal billboards and this is our blog. Half the billboards in Toronto are illegal - help us bring the vast, unlawful privatization of our public visual environment to an end.
