Saw this great special build billboard in Meadowbank last week for Honda for their Problem Playground campaign pastiching those moveable tile games that kids loved (pre PS3 of course). Slowly building up from a jumbled mess to the finished article over the last few weeks. What a great idea and with a fun execution.Wish we’d done that we thought at mightysmall. Hold on a minute we did. As part of a pitch (at an agency we used to work at) to a very well known Edinburgh estate agents we presented exactly the same idea with various views of Edinburgh with the line "Edinburgh moves with client x” the posters were special build 6 sheets and the pieces would actually have been able to be moved around by the general public.
Sadly the client went elsewhere. The final bodyblow came when he queried the idea by saying “No-one's done that before. Why on earth should we do it?”
Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

Now that the building work for our desperately needed (sic) tram system is now well underway doon our street it seems that the council have taken an imaginative step towards the new and glorious nanny state of the future. A pedestrian crossing for the inebriated and well-oiled. Handily located at the top of Haddington Place, right outside the International Youth Hostel and within crawling distance of our local the Windsor Buffet, Pearces Bar and the newsagent that sells ciggies to under 16's.

We await with bated breath the urinating man and vomiting student icons that must surely follow.

How this cheeky cover from France's Premiere Farming Journal made it to the newsagents shelf we can only guess. Especially in the 50's when even the briefest flash of ankle was enough to offend. It goes to show that the French (or maybe just the French Illustrating fraternity) do have a sense of humour. At least the farmer's wearing his Sunday best. Should it have been delivered through the post in a brown paper bag? Ewe decide.

If you come upon any more illustrations that somehow made it through the censors net give me a shout and i'll compile a rogues gallery.

As alfresco graffiti galleries go, Berlin is a hard city to beat.

Maybe the famous Wall and the art that was produced on it makes the Berliners more tolerant to the ubiquity of graffiti all around the city or just their seemingly more liberal attitude to everything, but walk around Berlin and you're guaranteed to be visually assaulted by something new round every corner. Which is just as well as some of the architecture in the city can be a trifle grim. Especially when the sun isn't shining. And it's all free.

This selection could all be viewed (well almost) from a café pavement table whilst enjoying ein kafee und ein apfelstrudel on the Oranienstrasse, south of the River Spree.