Artist-vandals in Berlin have rather brilliantly hacked a set of subway posters, overlaying them with stickers showing the Photoshop UI. [Via Mark Stern, Serge Jespers, Jeff Lietz, and others]
I have a soft spot for the trippy impromptu public art projects that subway posters often become–everything from Van Dycks & puke lines to political commentary. I got an unreasonably big kick out of a Bourne Identity poster in the NY subway that featured three images of Matt Damon on which someone had scrawled, respectively, “Loner… gun owner… stern taskmaster.” (Told you it was unreasonable.)
[Update: Kottke links to more photos on Flickr. Apparently the project is called "Don’t Forget…" [Via]]
[Previously: Real-world Photoshop.]
To go that extra step, they needed the new Clone Source panel up next to the History panel (which is filled with brilliance, I must say:
“Fat -40%”).
To the new year to you Jack,
Great PR. Could I get a part time job with Adobe pasting in Kentucky.
[Wouldn’t you need some subways first? 🙂 –J.]
Most kindly
Ken in KY
The Devil is in the details. The layer labels give it a real kick.
Any press is good press I guess. Brilliant execution nonetheless.
While brilliant in its own way, it fails perfection by using an English UI (in a German U-Bahn(subaway) station). Now imagine someone not even remotely into CG and not well versed in English trying to figure out what’s going on…
Nice! What do you think about that
https://www.behance.net/Gallery/3_5-inch-poster-set/164212
[Cool! My boss’s boss used to have to deal with the build-of-materials lists when Photoshop shipped on floppy. That meant tracking floppy, floppy label, floppy sleeve, sleeve label, etc. *for each disk*. I’m really glad we’re not in that business now. 🙂 –J.]