Alongside a poster run across some of our 4 sheet and 48 sheet sites, JACK ARTS Scotland worked with 89up agency to deliver a creative billboard at Glasgow’s Tradeston Street, ensuring gran and her sledgehammer were not to be ignored – creating a spillboard to take them out of the frame and onto the city street.

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Working alongside Virgin Music, the rollout spanned cities including London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Liverpool, Sheffield and Manchester. A multi-format approach — from 4-sheets, to 48 sheets and large-scale takeovers — ensured consistent presence across the UK.

Reflecting the tone of the album itself, the campaign carried a sense of quiet intensity — blending themes of love, existential dread and subtle socio-political commentary into a visual identity that felt as layered and far-reaching as the music.

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Created for group exhibition The Children are Now, the work is a collaboration between artist Bob & Roberta Smith and a group of children from the Children’s Parliament – an organisation dedicated to the realisation of children’s rights. The artworks presented reflect on issues identified by children from across Scotland – including climate change, mental health and bullying, and vapes.

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Nash’s interest in entangling the mechanics of printmaking with the pliancy of textiles is shared by her friend and mentor Fraser Taylor, who has a longstanding interest in the co-constitutive relationship between graphic design, printmaking techniques, and the materiality of textiles. His work features printed textiles alongside thick, gestural oil marks layered onto collaged cardboard. Through a stark, monochromatic palette, fragmented curves and grids invoke the shadows of an arch or gable; the curve of a tunnel; the mullion of a window. 

JACK ARTS Scotland partnered with Nash and Taylor to take their new collaborative works to our sites across Edinburgh and Glasgow, ahead of their parallel solo exhibitions SEE / AND KNOW BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION and Unlikely Architectures at Wasps Patriothall Gallery in Edinburgh, supported through their arts programme. Combining Taylor’s distinctive black lines with Nash’s textural embroidery the pair have overlaid their work to mimic the process of layering within screen printing. This series of nine new collaborative works bridge the intersections of their practices, bringing graphic marks and soft textures to public sites across the two cities.

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JACK ARTS worked with Faber to place these lines of poetry in unusual and unexpected everyday places across the UK using our hand-picked street poster sites. With original artwork created by artist and wood engraver Duncan Montgomery and set by designer Amy Lines, these poets were in dialogue with each other across time and space in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, and Sheffield.

From Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes to Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Richard Scott and Isabelle Baafi, it was inspiring to host the meetings of these artists, the streets they found themselves on, and passersby encountering poetry at every turn.

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For their 10^th edition, they presented ShowGround, a performance centred programme celebrating seaside entertainment and travelling showpeople culture. Spanning 60 venues, including a collaboration with a local amusement arcade, the festival showcased circus, acrobatics, puppetry, theatre, dance and film.

JACK ARTS Scotland took the colourful pastel hues of the festival branding to sites across Edinburgh – from 4 sheets hosted on a range of our panels and drums, to a bold 6 in-a-row takeover at our Meadowbank hoardings, a main thoroughfare to Porty – ensuring maximum visibility for locals and visitors to the East of the city.

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Exploring themes of diaspora, migration and identity, the three bold 12 in-a-row panels of Let Me Show You Who I Am were the result of workshops Rekab hosted with SCORE Scotland and their group of young people in Wester Hailes in Edinburgh – with the workshops offering platforms of self-expression for the young people involved through music, dance, voice and ceramics.

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In partnering with JACK, DELLI proved that they truly live and breathe their ethos – that small makers should run the food scene – by putting their ‘chefs’ front and centre in bold street poster takeovers across London, Manchester and Edinburgh.

Showcasing stylistic film photography that highlighted their standout offerings – New Theory Wine, Melo Matcha, and a Vincenzo x Gozney collaboration – DELLI tantalised passersby’s’ tastebuds and once again proved why they’re the go-to source for everything from niche finds to essential kitchen staples. 

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Known for her bold, feminist artworks often created from layering archive images from magazines, newspapers and vintage pornography, including her famous cover for the Buzzcocks Orgasm Addict single – and performances including wearing a meat-dress to the Hacienda in the 80s (decades before Lady Gaga shocked the world by wearing one to the 2010 MTV Music Awards) – the artist has always played with themes of power and provocation.

These two new large-scale artworks came to life as Linder worked with our team to build up layers of supersized cut-outs featuring lemons, cups, flowers, swans and hands onto base artworks she’d created specifically for the partnership. The finished works were a celebration of colour, form and sexuality – boldly launching the 2025 edition of the Art Festival and its programme of exhibitions and events across the capital.

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JACK ARTS Scotland helped take their peachy campaign visuals across the city for their exhibition by artist Mercedes Azpilicueta, exploring themes of care, resistance, and lesser-known women’s stories from history. From classic 4 sheet takeovers to supersized 16 sheets, we made sure their posters, alongside their distinctive building, could be seen across the city.

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The takeover presented their paintings of hope and unity from Europe Day, created in a workshop with Mission of Innocents – a charity supporting children displaced from their homes due to war, political or economic instability, and environmental disasters.

The partnership culminated in a very special gathering at the takeover site, bringing the young people, members of AUGB and the Ukrainian Consulate together to celebrate their community and its resilience.

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JACK ARTS Scotland teamed up with Big Think Agency to bring a duo of bold poster designs to the streets of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, promoting the line up for the two-day event – including globally renowned Australian DJ FISHER on the Saturday and a day-to-night session from the legendary Boiler Room on the Sunday.

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Malaka Abu Owda, Mohammed Alhaj and Ahmad Adawi were invited to shared their work and voices across the site’s three 12 in-a-row panels throughout the 2025 edition of Falastin Film Festival – a volunteer-run, not-for-profit collective of Palestinians and allies dedicated to sharing Palestinian stories and voices with Scottish audiences through the power of cinema and art.

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For their 2025 campaign, the college has taken the students’ work to the streets across the city, showcasing a colourful variety of artforms and approaches that will be on display – presenting them on our 4 sheets panels and drums in cultural hotspots, alongside high impact 6 in-a-row takeovers showcasing the full range of artworks.

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JACK ARTS Scotland took their bold ‘HOUSE HEADS’ campaign across Edinburgh and Glasgow, showcasing it on a range of formats from 4sheet and 8sheet panels to quads and full side takeovers of our drums – making their orange and black brutalist design a standout addition to our city streets.

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JACK ARTS Scotland worked with SNJO to platform their poster campaign for the show on some of our 4-sheet and drum sites across each of the cities, with its beautiful, earth-toned illustration depicting the movement and rhythm of the tablas drums – an instrument which Gurtu has been playing since aged 5, and now fuses with Western drums in his unique performances.

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As part of the campaign, Oatly will be touring the country throughout March and April, offering free oat flat whites to those who have never tried it before. On March 31st, Oatly will join forces with London-based coffee brand Grind to give away free drinks at 14 locations across the capital. So, if you’re an Oatly fan, even if you don’t know it yet, don’t miss your chance to try it!

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JACK ARTS Scotland helped bring their cosmic, pastel-hued posters by illustrator Yifei Xiang to the streets of Edinburgh, showcasing them on our 4-sheet and art drums across the capital to capture the attention of passersby – a colourful contrast to the dreich February weather.

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JACK ARTS Scotland worked with the theatre to bring their posters onto the streets of Dundee, Perth and Edinburgh – making use of a range of our formats from 4-sheets, 8-sheets, arts & culture drums and banners to deliver a highly engaging campaign.

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For their latest duo of exhibitions, the former 19th-century natural history museum was transformed with the work of Gabrielle Goliath and Guadalupe Maravilla. To present a taste of their creative offering to a wider audience, we worked with the gallery to showcase two of the artworks across a range of formats – from classic 4-sheets and impactful 48-sheets to our unique vinyl panels on Market Street, opposite Waverley Station.

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To celebrate the acclaimed reception of Orbital and its powerful lasting impact on the publishing world, JACK ARTS worked with Penguin Random House to install bespoke window murals at The Portobello Bookshop in Edinburgh and Mr B’s Emporium, Bath. The campaign saw the team commission talented local artists KMG and Billy Colours to reimagine the colourful galaxy first designed by Helsinki-based artist Aino-Maija Metsola for the original book-cover.

The bookshop window murals brought the book to life, inviting passers-by to experience the Orbital world from the outside.

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Since 2022 their Scotland-based members have been contributing short stories, memories, poems, photographs, and illustrations to open-calls on themes exploring their personal experiences, challenges and traditions – resulting in an inspiring archive of monthly zines.

For International Migrants Day 2024, JACK ARTS Scotland has partnered with Migrant Voice to share some of these stories, poems and artworks at takeover sites on Duke Street in Glasgow, and Wishaw Terrace in Edinburgh. The powerful narratives shared on street-level sites help amplify their message and bring visibility to their vital work.

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BUILDHOLLYWOOD Scotland had the pleasure of inviting Wood to present her work on some of our sites across Edinburgh and Glasgow for our ongoing Your Space Or Mine series. Harking back to the signed celebrity postcards of old Hollywood, the artwork, which was presented across 48 sheets, 16 sheets and 4 sheet takeovers across the cities, played with ideas around the idolation and artifice of fame.

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Coinciding with their installation at King’s Cross, JACK and YoungMinds plastered their call throughout Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London and Manchester. Quotes from over 1,000 young people, juxtaposed against vibrant gradients, detailed single, yet shared, experiences in everyday life on feeling crushed and weighed down. The billboards were seen far and wide throughout our cities, asking passersby to take action for better youth mental health. “The youth mental health crisis isn’t caused by one thing. It’s a million tiny things that add up.”

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We joined forces with Avalanche Records to bring his work to sites across Glasgow, Manchester, London and Edinburgh, including a takeover in the city’s Waverley Mall – showcasing Billy’s latest series, which re-interprets song titles from Taylor Swift’s recent album, The Tortured Poets Department – transforming them into illustrations paying homage to a wide range of iconic characters, artworks and films, in his signature style.

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Working with Total Media we delivered a campaign across the Scottish capital, plastering our sites with the call to action ‘FREE JOHN REBUS’ on top of the promotional posters – a simple and eye-catching approach to take the campaign to the next level.

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JACK ARTS Scotland partnered with Williams to present portraits from the project at sites across Edinburgh, alongside a full takeover at Wishaw Terrace to coincide with World Mental Health Day 2024.

On the street-based partnership, Williams said: “I hope by exhibiting the portraits in these public spaces we can encourage everyday passers-by to reflect on and engage with the topic of mental health – particularly those who might be less inclined to participate within a more conventional exhibition environment.” @talk.portraits

A list of mental health charities and organisations can be found on the TALK. website here.

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Throughout the summer JACK ARTS Scotland brings these festivals to life on the streets of Edinburgh and Glasgow; our poster, billboard and drum sites are a cultural noticeboard of campaigns from the Book, Film, International and Politics festivals. We partnered with the Art Festival, for their 20th birthday celebration, showcasing work from Rosie’s Disobedient Press across the city, as well as their own colourful campaign posters. The icing on the cultural cake was to once again partner with the Festival Fringe Society to highlight their community programmes and access resources – including community ticketing and sensory tools to make the festival season accessible to all.

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As well as delivering their colourful poster campaign across Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow, JACK ARTS Scotland partnered with EAF on their 20th birthday year to bring the work of Rosie’s Disobedient Press out onto the city streets, as a continuation of our support of the artist-led publishers which started during Glasgow International 2024. The work, a collaborative project by artists Lisette May Monroe and Adrien Howard, reflected on the landscape of the city over the past 20 years, working with archives and local organisations to look at language as a historical act of resistance. 

Alongside our city-wide display, Rosie’s presented work in print, on clothing, across windows, and at City Art Centre, where our posters were taken out of the street setting and presented on the gallery’s walls.

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To bring the long-awaited sequel to the streets of Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Manchester, JACK worked with Kinetic. Echoing Beetlejuice’s iconic black and white suit, the campaign creative puts the cast, both new and old, on display across our takeover sites – injecting some much needed weirdness into our cities.

“It’s showtime.”

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We worked with Fruitmarket to take Mahama’s striking exhibition poster onto the streets of Edinburgh – from showcasing the work at busy commuter routes on our Haymarket and Princes St drums, to posting them at our sites in areas across the city.

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Exploring a range of different Lomography cameras during a collaborative workshop with Tiny Changes, Scotland’s first national youth mental health charity, a group of young carers aged 12–15 years old were encouraged to view the world in unexpected ways through the camera lens. Over 400 images were shortlisted to 12 to showcase in a city-wide public art display across our poster site and drums in Edinburgh.

Khadea, who led on the project, said: ‘Our public parks are places we connect, shift our perception of the everyday through the magic of analogue. Through this workshop, we captured what it means to be outdoors in green spaces and finding moments of joy!’.

In the spirit of working to help young minds feel better, this creative project offered the group respite from caring responsibilities, a sense of belonging and connection to their local environment.

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To celebrate the launch of this year’s programme – Rituals That Unite Us – we joined forces with EIF and Bright Signals to paint the town yellow, creating a giant pop-up brochure installation and a series of free performances to surprise and delight passers-by. Travelling to some of Edinburgh’s most iconic locations, our ‘Big Brochure’ opened to reveal world-class performers; contemporary folk band Breabach at the festival hub on Castle Hill, Scottish Ballet Youth Exchange at St Andrew’s Square, soprano Emma Morwood at St James Quarter, and festival director Nicola Benedetti at Usher Hall, who played a short excerpt of The Lark Ascending on her violin and later answered questions on her top picks from the 2024 programme.  

Festival staff were also on hand to give out real brochures, some of which included a coveted ‘yellow ticket’ that gave lucky winners a chance for an all-expenses-paid opening weekend package to the festival. 

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Collaborating with Fraser Muggeridge studio, we brought Commercial Type’s Commercial Classics campaign to our London poster sites in 2020. Now, to coincide with a lecture tour by the type foundry’s co-founder Paul Barnes, we’ve partnered with Fraser Muggeridge again to launch a ‘meta’ campaign on the streets of Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh, using graphic imagery from their 2020 campaign to spotlight posters… on posters. 

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Celebrating the exhibition’s opening, we worked with the gallery on a street poster campaign that spotlighted Regina de Miguel’s delicate but colourful watercolour Abrazo Simbionte on the streets of Edinburgh. Inspired by the theories of biologist Lynn Margulis, the work explores ‘the interrelatedness of all organic and nonorganic matter’ in our world and was sure to encourage passers-by to find out more. 

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We worked with EMI to bring ‘Messy’ to the streets of London, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Manchester in celebration of its release and critical acclaim. Courtesy of DIABOLICAL – these purple posters coloured cities nationwide. 

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We worked with Edinburgh Art Festival to bring their minimal and painterly 2023 campaign to life: our multi-format posters brightened the streets of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee in the lead-up to the festival beginning.

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To drum up excitement ahead of the festival, we worked with FLY on a street poster campaign across Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. With posters showcasing some of the highlights from a truly stacked line-up, it was the perfect way to take the final festival countdown to social media.

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As part of BUILDHOLLYWOOD’s Your Space Or Mine series, Ioannou’s cinematic style painted the streets of Edinburgh with an otherworldly brush, celebrating carefully curated moments with the community she loves. Showcased across Edinburgh’s historical streets, including Leith Walk, the billboards featured epic scenes from Ioannou’s mind that live beyond realism, evoking a fun narrative.

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While depictions of women and femininity have evolved over the centuries, this has remained a constant. Thinking about how desirability and attractiveness can be equated with success or ‘achievement’, clothing has often been used to reinforce these ideals – but it can also, as Worrall notes, ‘challenge or liberate our sense of self and assertion of our identity. The question we need to ask ourselves then is: am I really wearing what I want, or what somebody else wants?’

We partnered with Jessica Worrall to install The Shaping of Beauty on our sites in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee, taking her message onto the streets of each city. Working alongside collage workshops with school students, the project seeks to truly engage with those who witness it.

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To announce the news in Manchester and Edinburgh, we worked with Shakespeare Media to tease and reveal the production on the streets. Hinting at its iconic golden artwork in the first part of the campaign, the second half brought the curtain up on the dates and locations.

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To celebrate the 2022/23 course participants, we supported them by bringing their work to the streets – alongside the XXIII exhibition at Stills’ Edinburgh gallery space. Showcasing a selection of the imagery on show, we brought Stills’ colourful street poster campaign to our sites right across the city. 

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To drum up excitement for this year’s festival announcement, we worked with FLY on a campaign that this time took its enigmatic teaser messaging to Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, and Manchester. Both mirroring and developing the nature-inspired artworks from our 2022 work with them, the campaign hinted at out-of-this-world things to come from the festival ahead of its line-up announcements later in the year. 

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To celebrate the novel’s release in its city setting, we worked with Hachette’s Headline Books and Edinburgh Council on a local experiential campaign – taking place in front of the Burns Monument, right by the exact location of the story. Utilising the space to play tricks on the eye with a lenticular installation, the campaign was featured by the author across her social media channels. 

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To bring Being Funny in a Foreign Language to life on the streets, we worked alongside Dirty Hit on a striking nationwide street poster campaign in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Sheffield. Making use of the varied spaces our street poster formats provide, it showcased The 1975’s latest triumph across each city.  

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With street poster campaigns for Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, the Talbot Rice Gallery, the National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh International Film Festival, and many more, the displays reached from Edinburgh’s west to the coast, from Murrayfield to Leith, proving its position at the forefront of both the UK’s and international arts and culture scenes.

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To celebrate the exhibition’s opening, we worked with the University of Edinburgh on a striking street poster campaign covering both the Scottish capital and Glasgow – with Condorelli’s 2019 piece, ‘Zanzibar’ providing the vibrant, blotchy, and pigmented headline imagery to turn heads.

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To platform their point of difference, we worked with Republic of Media to translate the message onto the street. Creating giant, vibrant, excellently placed murals throughout Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, the campaign made a huge impact both on the street and online. Working with their trademark colours and purposeful copy, it perfectly distilled (sorry) Bruichladdich’s personality in the heart of each city.

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To ring in this year’s forthcoming spectacle, we worked with Posterscope to take over Edinburgh and Glasgow’s streets with the festival’s celebratory vibrancy. Noting its ability to bring cultures together, the campaign washed the city with colour to officially signal the launch of this year’s festival activities. From Haymarket and North Bridge to Southside, it hinted at the great things to come during the approaching summer.

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To raise the profile of the new festival on Scottish streets, we worked with FLY to take over our sites right across Glasgow and Edinburgh with Otherlands’ dreamy artwork. Showcasing the impressive names on the weekend’s roster and the magical, mottled, summer-tinged imagery that underpins its creative concepts, we showcased Otherlands’ ability to provide an escape to another world.

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We teamed up with TikTok to take #thisisBlack nationwide, taking over sites in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester and Sheffield. Showcasing the campaign’s stars in monochrome tones alongside TikTok’s iconic bright pink and turquoise, the run also included a trio of creative billboards in London, illuminating the creators for all the city to see.

It proved to make great social content too – appearing on TikTok UK’s Instagram and Twitter accounts, as well as a number of the creators’ profiles (including Nifè and Ehiz) – earning well over one-hundred thousand likes in the process.

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With Talon, we worked with the Scottish Government to broadcast their commitments to Edinburgh and Glasgow, projecting Net Zero promises onto each city, and making their eco-themed campaign a reality. This included environmentally conscious artwork for creative billboards – with foliage and natural-looking materials – to soften the city’s streets with a touch of nature.

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Navigating difficult health diagnoses hasn’t stopped Billy’s spirit, so follows the release of his autobiography – Windswept & Interesting. We worked with John Murray Press to bring Billy’s tales to Edinburgh and Glasgow, borrowing the vibrant pink from the book’s cover artwork to guarantee turning heads. With a creative billboard at our iconic Barrowlands site, a takeover at Edinburgh’s North Bridge, and sample hand-out events to tease the book’s content, it brought Billy’s story onto the streets in spectacular style.

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Projecting a mysterious 30 across iconic locations in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Birmingham, we teased Adele’s album news around the nation, alongside digital screen displays taking over city streets. Coinciding with the release of Easy On Me, her first single in five years, it promised a forthcoming full-length album set to delight fans and break records once again.

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Books Are My Bag play a central role in the yearly celebrations – so we teamed up with them to bring this year’s Bookshop Day to the streets of Edinburgh. Working on a number of creative street posters (filled with lovely 3D butterflies) alongside drum takeovers and vinyl displays, it showcased beautiful artwork created for the day by Dapo Adeola, also known as dapsdraws – throwing the spotlight onto the city’s bookshops in a wonderful way.

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We teamed up with MUBI to launch Limbo on city streets across the country. The poster artworks reflected the charm and idiosyncrasies of the film – through a befitting illustration and beautifully captured photography. Alongside the film’s title displayed in bright pink type, it brought the essence of the story to street-sides in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester and London.

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We worked with Talon to launch Shelter’s Fight For Home campaign on the streets of the UK, taking thought-provoking and impactful creatives by Who Wot Why to Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester and Sheffield. With the charity’s trademark red, cramped text, monochromatic images and simple statements, the posters struck a chord both on the street and online, drumming up hundreds of likes and plenty of comments across Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

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To coincide with Record Store Day on June 12^th, BUILDHOLLYWOOD will unveil its one-of-a-kind street gallery with billboard images from legendary photographers Mick Rock and Pogus Caesar displayed alongside those from up-and-coming photographers Denisha Anderson and Steven M. Wiggins in London, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff and Edinburgh.

The project will see iconic photographs of renowned musicians including Jay-Z, Madonna, Grace Jones, Dizzie Rascal, Debbie Harry and Stevie Wonder appear alongside emerging talents like Wu-Lu, Scrufizzer, Sketch and Oscar Jerome. Displayed in cities throughout the UK, the striking images bring bold music photography into the heart of the community – and onto the very streets which inspired many of the musicians who are featured.

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We partnered with Martin Gray to bring the portrait series to Scottish streets with city-wide poster displays in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The series combines monochrome portraits with block shapes in bold primary colours that symbolise the contrasting experiences many have had over the course of the pandemic. The portraits were generally taken during busy working days, capturing fleeting moments that will be an invaluable, representative record of this time. When displayed alongside one another, the portraits merge, and the brightly coloured shapes dance around in symbiotic patterns. Gray intends for this to represent people’s interconnectedness, and the way that many individuals’ efforts have merged in order to see us through.

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This is the first ever nationwide effort to speak to the heroin-using community about naloxone and it’s come at a vital time – it was created in response to increasing deaths linked to overdoses. Shot by renowned street photographer Harry F Conway, the stories and faces are real people with their own lived experience, keen to address this issue across the nation in London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow, Cardiff and Edinburgh.

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In ‘Lockdown A Self Portrait’ – the first of nine photographs on poster sites throughout Glasgow and Edinburgh: the latest iteration of BUILDHOLLYWOOD’s Your Space Or Mine artists’ street display project – we see five images of Nadeau variously posed in the same small corner of a cluttered room.

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In 2001 she turned her avid, poetic and forensic gaze on a porn version of the Lewis Carroll classic. Banner’s Arsewoman in Wonderland screen printed in pink ink on a white billboard caused a stir when displayed at the Tate in 2002 but overall her practice elicits thoughtful, multi-layered engagement rather than ‘oo-er missus’ knee jerk reactions. Her ekphrastic transcriptions slow down perception, forcing viewers to apprehend sensation more deliberately, with an enhanced attention and self-awareness that viewing commercial productions rarely engenders.

Prose can seem transparent. While reading we discern ideas, feelings, scenarios but this act of decoding passes over or through the words so that once meanings have been gleaned the words evaporate. In Banner’s hands words, letters, even for single punctuation marks, it’s the physical form and material qualities that are bought to the fore.

In Buoys Boys (2016) the artist took full stops from five different typefaces and made them into large helium filled inflatables that bobbed around in the sky above the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea. For another work Banner spent nearly 20 years collecting the entire back catalogue of Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft books. Titled 1909 – 2011, she displays the annuals as a four-metre tall stack. Transformed into a sculpture, all the detailed description and seductive design pertaining to more than a century of aviation is hidden from sight. Denied the geeky info and sexy pics we are encouraged instead to arrive at a more complex, ethical considerations as to the subject of planes and human flight.

The artist’s Your Space Or Mine collaboration with the BUILDHOLLYWOOD family picks up on a project with a long history. During lockdown Banner started producing stark black flags bearing the single word ‘Intermission’ which she presented throughout the deserted city streets. This has now evolved into a national multi-site poster campaign. A kickback against the deceptive and seductive power of images, the glaring single word interventions punctuate the urban environment. They are arrant demands we pause and acknowledge the epic and everyday sacrifices made during this pandemic interlude, yes, but also to recognise affirmative sides to the social, economic and political impacts of Covid-19. According to Banner the enforced intermission from capitalism affords an opportunity we really should not “piss it away”, instead it’s time to rethink, recalibrate our addiction to consumer culture.

“We are being told the intermission is over, we’re being told to go shopping and buy stuff. I think we should be questioning whether the intermission is really over. The climate emergency is not over.”

Whatever form they take, from the obsessively studious to playfully absurd, corporeally salacious to surreal, experimental and shocking – In 2010 the artist suspended a decommissioned Sea Harrier fighter jet vertically from the ceiling of the neoclassical Tate Britain Duveen Gallery – Banner’s works invite viewers to reconsider their orientation towards the world of language and objects. To question the ways we read and reflect on existence. To think and act afresh.

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Baillie is a graphic designer based in Edinburgh who currently works with cultural organisations like V&A Dundee, Glasgow Short Film Festival and Dundee Contemporary Arts. For the collaboration, he has created a bold, blue poster with bright yellow, green and pink block lettering reading “Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things”. With a backdrop of images like cash registers, nurse’s uniforms and parcels, it highlights the necessary role that people from delivery workers to NHS staff to retail workers have played throughout the last few months. Plus, hopefully, it’ll help us to realise that their role is not yet over, even if we are allowed to go to the shops.

“Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things” is a fitting phrase to honour the way in which we have all worked towards safeguarding each other during the pandemic,” says Baillie of his design. As well as the visual references to key jobs, there are some more hidden nods to the various roles ordinary people have played: “The stitching line in the top-right corner of the design is a nod to the individuals and organisations who have given their time and resources to make scrubs and PPE, as well as the wider story of people all over the country who have been doing what they can to help, whether it be through volunteering or simply doing their very best to follow guidance and keep themselves and others safe.”

Even the colourful lettering designed and created by Baillie holds a deeper meaning and message: “The design also features bespoke type, with each letter built-up using geometric blocks, again alluding to the idea of people from different walks of life coming together.” We’ve had to all work together in recent months, helping out neighbours and friends with everyday tasks and keeping each other safe.

Baillie hopes that when ordinary people see the poster out in the streets (especially now they’re allowed out more regularly) it’ll “help to brighten up their day”. He wants to reinforce that everyone’s experience has been unique: “I imagine they’ll have their own examples of what the title “Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things’ means to them.” While things are easing up, the fight for many ordinary people is not over, the BUILDHOLLYWOOD family will continue to use their street space to honour them and to offer bright messages of hope to the community.

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Highly Commended entries
01 Chris le Fevre: Graphic Design BA (Hons), alumnus, 2017
02 Chloe Caulfield: 4th year BA (Hons) Photography
03 India Pearce: Illustration BA (Hons), alumna, 2017
04 Sophia Pauley: 4th year BA (Hons) Painting

This was an extension of Jack Arts’ previous work with the Edinburgh College of Art promoting their annual degree shows and fashion shows on drums around the centre of Edinburgh.

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Jack Arts Scotland was excited to worked directly with the festival again this year to heighten its profile across the city, with a high impact drum and poster campaign.

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For the first time, we have the pleasure of offering unique access to the entire span of the high-traffic North Bridge, a familiar and much-loved focal point in the city centre of Edinburgh.

We have special license to offer the exciting new site exclusively to arts and culture clients. The site is interspersed with dedicated arts space, including the current ‘Sideways Glace’ photography display from Martin Gray – ensuring a consistent creative message and mix of content to reach likeminded audiences.  The site is formed of large-format high-quality vinyl, ensuring a sleek, professional finish that will make any artwork pop.

North Bridge is a key historic location, used by over 13,000* vehicles per day, including over 1,500 buses. It passes over Waverly Station and is a busy pedestrian route connecting the old town to the new.   North Bridge is the perfect, high-impact location for arts and culture clients wanting to reach engaged audiences in the heart of the city.

*DofT figures 2018

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We were excited to work with Rapport to spread word on the street that Rockstar Games’ biggest hit had returned. With 4 sheet posters and 48 sheet billboards in high impact areas throughout the UK, the bold creative took-over the streets in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Manchester, Cardiff, London, Birmingham.

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‘Art is powerful and at a time when all Scotland’s venues are closed for the foreseeable future, they can still have a voice by offering their walls and doors to be used for this dramatic, vital statement of support for Black Lives Matter.’

The artworks – colourful, challenging, moving, powerful and diverse – have been created by artists from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, all living in Scotland, find the full list of locations and join the trail:  https://www.wezi.uk/mural-trail-locations/

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We are delighted to form a part of the proceedings and showcase works from three exciting contemporary artists on our sites across Edinburgh – forming a street gallery for this years’ alternative festival offerings.

Ruth Ewan, who revisits her Sympathetic Magick (2018) project with an online presentation of her short film, Worker’s Song Storydeck, and a special poster series devised with magician Ian Saville. Artist and activist Ellie Harrison presents an up-to-date version of her graph showing the tonnes of carbon produced by the personal transportation of a ‘professional artist’ and Tam Joseph re-presents The hand made map of the world, Transforming and subverting the ‘World Political Map’, renaming familiar landmasses (America becomes China; United Kingdom becomes Cuba) to lay bare the destructive quest for territorial control which has dominated geopolitics over the centuries.

Find out more about the full programme: https://www.edinburghartfestival.com/

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Avalanche Records are an independent music shop specialising in supporting new music and championing Scottish artists, Billy is known for his art pieces and illustration series based on the contemporary pop art movement – in collaboration they are taking the streets of Edinburgh by storm with punchy, cartoon inspired illustrations paired with stylish black graphics.  We posted these across the city to mark the reopening of their Waverley Mall shop, brightening our drums and creating intrigue across our boards.

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In February 2018 we worked with Opticomm Media on their latest creative campaign. “1 Million Beers on us” was a pledge from BrewDog to give away 1 million pints of it’s flagship beer, Punk IPA. The outdoor campaign, running alongside press and social media, encouraged potential customers to “make up your own mind” and “not believe the advertising”. All you had to do was register your details online to receive a beer token and claim your free pint.

The huge sampling campaign was an original and creative attempt to convert traditional beer lovers to craft IPA, and the out-of-home campaign appeared on large billboards and 4 sheet takeovers across the UK.

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Boasting an early Rotten Tomatoes score of 100%, the film follows Avenger T’Challa as he returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to take his place as King. Director Ryan Coogler’s ambitious film stars Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther, supported by an incredible cast including Lupita Nyong’o, and Michael B. Jordan to name but a few.

We worked with Ambient Worldwide Ltd on a UK wide out-of-home poster campaign for the film. The artwork featured the star line-up, creating a buzz over one of the most anticipated films of the year.

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THE BOOK OF JOY: To help the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu spread the joy, we recruited a happy team of steel drummers and promo staff who handed out flowers and book samples to Londoners.

THAT GIRL FROM NOWHERE: Playing on the cover of the book which includes a bunch of polaroids scattered on the floor, we set up a nifty photo booth in Brighton to create memorable moments for the locals. 

PENGUIN FLIPPER: We’ve been spreading the Christmas spirit as part of the Penguin Flipper campaign – an online book recommendation tool that helps customers choose the right Christmas present for loved ones. We set up a pop up event at the Birmingham Bullring where people could spin a wheel of fortune to win a prize, next stop is Edinburgh!

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The striking poster graphics are now synonymous with the festival, having been used for the last three years with alternative colours. We were excited to be able to promote the EIFF once again, as the memorable creative made a splash on our poster sites and drums across the centre of Edinburgh.

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Five showcase sites are available to experienced graffiti artists who submit their ideas to secure the space for a month. We have also produced an accessible site for the street art community, as well as working with local schools to turn children’s drawings of Meadowbank’s history into artist collages that we printed and installed. The children were then invited down to see their work on a large scale in the heart of their city.

Artists who have so far created work at Meadowbank include Trepo Parker from Mexico, DLA1 from Inverness, Baby/Pure from Edinburgh, and Fabrik/Mover & Shona Hardie also from Edinburgh.

Mark and the team at Spectrum Arts have been involved in a number of interesting Graffiti projects in Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland and we are delighted to be working with them to bring this site to life.

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The redesign set alight both mainstream and design-specific press, and was introduced across print, mobile, apps and desktop with a new font, masthead and pull-out section dedicated entirely to opinion pieces. The changes to design and brand not only highlight The Guardian’s determination to remain ahead of the game, but the compact format will also save the paper millions of pounds in production costs.

We were excited to work directly with The Guardian on the launch, rolling out the bright and colourful creative in cities across the UK. The impressive poster campaign gave the redesign a huge amount of exposure, running on 4 sheet posters, large format billboards and takeovers across London, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Sheffield.

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