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To build momentum, DIABOLICAL partnered with Polydor Records on a teaser-led outdoor campaign in London and Manchester. Two stripped-back artworks played with the album’s narrative, featuring the phrases ‘love’ and ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love,’ offering just enough to capture attention without revealing too much. 

Launching alongside news of the lead single ‘Drop Dead’ – which was released on April 17th – the campaign tapped into Olivia Rodrigo’s devoted fanbase, amplifying excitement through mystery and emotional pull.

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The artwork cut through key locations including Homerton High Street, Mile End Road and Oxford Street, with a series 16-sheet, 24-sheet and 48-sheet posters putting the lime green colour way front and centre, enabling the campaign to be heard loud and clear against the urban backdrop.

Wireless, secure and built for movement, with no cables, dropouts or distractions – the launch was perfectly timed with marathon season – with the placement landing where it mattered most, in front of runners hitting the pavements.

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Featuring the 11-strong cast of emerging talent, the stellar lineup includes actors Hammed Animashaun, Emma Sidi and George Fouracres and TikTok funny-men, Jack Shep and Al Nash. The rollout brings serious scale to a big cultural moment – as the iconic US show marks its 50th year with a new UK chapter. Saturday nights? Sorted.

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For the launch of the mini-series, JACK, our in-house Creative Studio, and Meanwhile Agency joined forces, bringing a permanent blooming installation to life.

Utilising the expertise of landscape designer Studio Macarthur and team, the 500-plant installation provides a space in Manchester’s Heaton Park to help bees pollinate, supporting one of Earth’s most vital inhabitants, while encouraging local visitors to plant their own flowers at home.

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Taking the launch to the streets, DIABOLICAL worked with The Orchard to roll out a 4-sheet, nationwide poster campaign that spanned from London, to Dundee, putting Raye front and centre and at scale. True to her classic Hollywood style and flair, the artwork itself was reminiscent of cabaret posters – bold and impactful, cementing Raye as the showgirl she is.

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A citywide poster campaign, featuring photography by Gabriel Moses, saw the Lake Elsinore Storm cap insignia appear across London in the days leading up to launch – building anticipation where it matters most, out on the streets. With the posters going up just before the collection went live, the campaign turned presence into demand, as founder and Creative Director Clint Ogbenna made his own pilgrimage across the sites – reinforcing Corteiz’s ability to drive culture and product in equal measure.

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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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Visually, the campaign stayed true to the band’s unmistakable world. Pulling from the album’s artworks by Jamie Hewlett – created in his Normandy studio and inspired by years of travel – the visuals captured the mood of a record exploring death, grief and the afterlife, alongside collaborators including IDLES, Anoushka Shankar, Bobby Womack and David Jolicoeur.

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The campaign leaned into symbolic artwork by long-time collaborator Hugh Syme, packed with nods that loyal Rush fans know well. It also marks a significant moment for the band – being the first tour since the passing of legendary drummer Neil Peart, embodied by Syme in the campaign artwork; with one of the songbirds flying away, whilst two sit on the wire.

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The artwork, pulled from Kaytranada’s 2025 album Ain’t No Damn Way!, cut sharply against the texture of the walls behind it, bringing the producer’s unmistakable visual world into the street. The message was simple: Manchester and London tour dates are locked in for the 2026 European run – with special guest Uncle Waffles joining along the ride.

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To fuel the frenzy, JACK worked with WPP to crank up the heat with a Nationwide, multi-format poster campaign that featured the iconic duo. In London and Manchester, accompanying the artwork were romance-drenched tearaways, that doubled as cards, tempting passerby to give the perfect gift this Valentines Day: the experience of watching Fennel’s visual feast on the big screen. Lines like “Drive Me Mad” and “Whatever Our Souls Are Made Of, His And Mine Are The Same” were wrapped up to survive the February rain and handed out alongside branded Kleenex for the inevitable emotional fallout.

With the downpour only deepening the drama – the streets emulated Yorkshire’s wild, misty moors against the urban backdrop. Captured by our social team, the activation was shared by Warner Bros’ UK’s official TikTok and Instagram account, reaching over a million followers and stoking excitement for this highly anticipated love story.

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JACK ARTS partnered with Factory International to take this urgent conversation beyond the gallery walls, inviting the public to encounter Ai Weiwei’s ideas through a large-scale billboard campaign across Manchester. Carefully selected sites frame and amplify the artist’s visual language without softening its political force, presenting striking black-and-white imagery and quotations at a monumental scale.

Through this series of artworks embedded within the everyday fabric of the city, the campaign asks all who encounter it to pause and consider: how do the systems built in the past continue to shape today’s injustices?

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The interactive show features over 200 recreated works, including graffiti, photographs, sculptures, video installations and prints. To build excitement ahead of its arrival, JACK ARTS filled Manchester’s streets with Banksy’s work.

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Shot by Juergen Teller, the imagery delivered a subtle festive nod ahead of gifting season, leaving passersby wondering if a little Westwood might end up beneath their tree. The campaign also highlighted the designer’s stores across all three cities – ready and waiting to welcome Christmas shoppers. 

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JACK ARTS partnered with MAF once again to bring this year’s campaign to life across the city. For 2025, the featured campaign artwork came from the Manchester-based Bibianna African Art Collective, who represent the artist Agboola Emmanuel. His vibrant piece, known for its bold colour and strong visual presence, became the focal image of the fair’s street campaign.

This year, MAF also invited JACK ARTS to select an additional artwork from the full collection to showcase on one of their chosen sites. The selected piece was Manchester, Drag Brunch Cigarette Break by photographer Charles Eastwood – a striking image captured on Manchester’s iconic Princess Street. Displayed on a 16-sheet installation on the very street where it was photographed, the placement created a meaningful and memorable moment for this year’s campaign.

Adding to the experience, the 2025 campaign introduced scannable QR codes on posters, allowing passersby to instantly claim free tickets, creating a more interactive and welcoming approach to audience engagement. With exhibitions, talks, workshops, and more, Manchester Art Fair 2025 continued to provide a vital platform for artists while offering visitors accessible and inspiring ways to explore contemporary art.

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Spanning across two different artworks and two different formats, the poster’s transformed the streets into a feverish dream, with the album cover’s mesmerising tableau offering a glimpse into the collection of stories and conceptual new-era romanticism the album holds. In Brixton, a creative billboard hosting a replica of the neon sign – From The Pyre – lit up at night, casting a glow over the street below. Built with a concealed lightbox, the sign evoked the look of a roadside motel – a whip-smart counterpoint to the band’s trademark baroque aesthetic. 

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In Manchester and London, “infinity mirror” posters with LED-lit lenticulars gave the mask a haunting 3D glow – an illusion that stopped even the bravest passersby in their tracks. As night fell, a single poster would light up, turning ordinary corners into spooked-out streets.

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To celebrate the launch, JACK ARTS partnered with HarperCollins to create a standout billboard that brought Peter’s personality to the streets. Taking inspiration from the iconic Bridget Jones’s Diary cover, a playful 96-sheet billboard featured a custom-built spillboard with a bobblehead-style Peter Kay – designed to catch attention and give passersby a good laugh. It’s exactly the kind of display Peter himself would have appreciated: big, bold, and full of humour.

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Marking his first major return since We’re All Alone in This Together, The Boy Who Played the Harp showcases collaborations with James Blake, Jim Legxacy, Kano, and Tems – with its striking album artwork fuelling fan excitement by featuring portraits of the stars.

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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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In East London, our event space, The Platform, was fully wrapped in Caudalie’s signature mint green, complete with a striking mirror installation and a pop-up skincare bay. Passersby were invited to sit down with Caudalie’s beauty experts for personalised skin scans that identified individual concerns and offered bespoke skincare advice using their new range of natural products.

Up in Manchester, brand ambassadors activated the space with sampling and tearaway posters, turning the streets into a tactile skincare experience. Dreamed up and delivered by JACK – no brief, no formula – just beauty, built to stop people in their tracks. 

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JACK ARTS partnered with Aviva Studios and Factory International to invite audiences to witness this thought-provoking immersive performance through a poster campaign taking over the streets of Manchester, Liverpool, and London. Using sites that cleverly commercialise elements of Marina’s work without compromising its rawness or creative integrity, striking stills of Marina Abramović’s latest work are showcased on a bold, city-wide scale.

Through this series of artworks creatively interacting with our sites in these cities, the Balkan Erotic Epic asks all who experience it: What are our bodies truly for?

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With each format reworking the classic for the streets today, the black-and-white visuals hit hard against raw city walls. A cultural icon reimagined without compromise – the Superstar’s never just been a sneaker – and this was never just another poster.

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As the festival season began to wind down, the energy did not. With a riot of a headliners including Chappell Roan, Amyl and the Sniffers, Travis Scott, Hozier and Bring Me the Horizon, heads were banging, and feet were stomping. And with an unrivalled atmosphere, BUILDHOLLYWOOD couldn’t resist returning to sacred festival ground, showing up in full force, with paper and paste in hand.

Decorating the festival walls, DIABOLICAL partnered with CMS Music Media to shout some noise about Wolf Alice and The Kooks’ upcoming tours, keeping the dance going strong. JACK brought the spook factor to the fields with Dentsu, promoting Netflix’s second instalment of hit series, ‘Wednesday’, with a selection of witty posters that contrasted her macabre personality with the screaming crowds before her.

JACK ARTS flew the flag for home turf with a series of Northern-centric activations plastered across the Leeds event with artwork for Leeds City College and The Warehouse Project’s upcoming set lists.

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With the first installment of the series bewitching our screens in August, viewers won’t have to wait long for part two – it arrives in September, keeping fans dead-excited for what’s to come. 

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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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To spotlight the event, JACK partnered with Talon for a bold poster takeover across Selfridges’ home cities – London, Manchester, and Birmingham. Inspired by ‘90s rave flyers, they gave their iconic typography a nostalgic twist, paired with a cheeky Selfridges-yellow caution sign reading “Dance Floor Warning.” To unlock the music, the public can scan the QR code, sign up, and dive into the beat. 

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The campaign rolled out in Manchester, London, Paris, and Berlin with targeted street projections and ‘galleries,’ each city spotlighting areas chosen through The Face x Nike’s collaboration with local artists from those neighbourhoods. Every site lit up at the exact same time – an intentional move echoing the campaign’s core idea: the “power of 8.” Targeted takeovers turned urban walls into glowing, high-impact moments, creating a campaign that felt as live and raw as the film itself.

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JACK ARTS partnered with Aviva Studios and Factory International to bring the festival’s dynamic spirit to the streets of Manchester. Our city-wide street poster campaign captured the energy, diversity, and creativity of MIF 2025, spotlighting its stellar line-up and thought-provoking themes. Poster take-overs transformed the city into a festival showcase, ensuring everyone knew what not to miss this summer. The city-wide poster activation was paired with two bespoke creative activations.

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Designed to seamlessly align with MOTH’s series of summer activations, starting with their Manchester off-licence pop-up, setting the tone for a season of unforgettable moments.

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BUILDHOLLYWOOD had exclusive on-site access to Parklife and made its mark by postering the festival perimeter. JACK, in partnership with Pinpoint brought the spotlight to Bed Head in a bold and creative campaign. Manchester’s iconic event space, The Warehouse Project, featured prominently across our 48-sheet formats at the festival, thanks to JACK ARTS who also showcased Factory International’s Manchester International Festival (MIF) throughout the weekend. At the same time, DIABOLICAL teamed up with Live Nation and SJM to bring some of the freshest and most beloved artists to the Parklife.

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JACK ARTS Scotland worked with their team to take their colourful campaign, which showcased the work of creatives who have used their services, onto our paper and paste sites around Birmingham, Brighton, Cardiff, Glasgow and Manchester – providing the perfect medium for a campaign celebrating the tactile, physical nature of print.

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In true skatepark spirit, JACK ARTS worked with Hachette to take this campaign to the streets with a live mural installation. Created by Logan Hanning, the artist behind the book’s cover, the graffiti-style cover artwork was recreated onto a billboard backing directly onto Projekts Skatepark in Manchester. Where better to celebrate a story rooted in identity, community, and skate culture than right in the heart of it?

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JACK ARTS and AKA brought the cast centre-stage with a high-flying creative billboard that bursts beyond the frame of our Shoreditch 48-sheet site, a concept designed to capture the energy and movement of the musical. The creative build is complemented by black-and-white portrait posters introducing the cast, featuring red, white, and blue target motifs synonymous with the mod movement; the result is an energetic, nostalgia-fuelled campaign to celebrate the production’s London debut. To bring Quadrophenia up and down the country TCS Media teamed up with JACK ARTS to bring The Lowrys Quadrophenia to Manchester.

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The mirrored installation will journey from the street to the Feel Good Club itself, to be displayed in tribute to the power of kindness, visibility, and mental health awareness in everyday life.

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The campaign’s standout creative brought the phone’s ultra-slim design to life through a striking 3D build. Designed to appear as if the device was perfectly wedged between two separate billboards, the illusion was cleverly achieved using a single billboard visually split in two, grabbing the attention of passersby.

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Brought to life through stunning film photography and postered across cities throughout the UK thanks to DIABOLICAL, the campaign is a visual love letter to fandoms and communities worldwide.

Launched in two phases – with the first wave of billboards going live in April and a second in October – the campaign proved the power and passion of fandom. From the matching mod haircuts of the Oasis faithful to the pink cowboy hats of Chappell Roan’s fans, or the bedazzled embodiment of Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour era, each poster celebrates the vibrant communities brought together through Spotify.

Returning for a second time, the hit Spotify Fan campaign took us on a global tour of fandoms: from a touching dance party with a Bad Bunny fan and his abuela, to a late-night (or very early morning) bike ride for Charli XCX fans, to Pitbull devotees donning the iconic bald caps and suits.

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At the centre of the campaign was an interactive billboard that invited passersby to engage with the artwork physically. Designed with a peel-away top layer, the billboard revealed a hidden image beneath. Each tearaway not only contributed to the evolving visual display but also doubled as a token, offering participants the chance to redeem a free drink.

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Their vibrant celebratory campaign fills the city streets ahead of the anticipated ticket release, launching their exciting anniversary programme across Manchesters top music venues, from grassroots spaces Matt and Phreds and The Carlton Club to big hitters RNCM and Aviva Studios as well as pinnacle spaces including Forsyths Music Shop – a venue list as diverse as the talent the festival champions. JACK ARTS bring their colourful celebration to the streets to spotlight the festival’s lasting impact on the past, present and future of jazz music.

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JACK ARTS Scotland worked with Think Alt for the launch of the first two QUEENZINE issues. Aligning with the UWCL quarter final fixture in Manchester, we platformed the poster campaign on our sites across the city – which included the installation of bespoke streetside mirrors which allowed passersby to see themselves on the cover of the zine.

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JACK Scotland teamed up with Talon to platform their stories of identity, allyship, and belonging on our poster sites across Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool, presenting their quotes and portraits (and of course their shoes) on a range of 12-sheet, 4-in-a-row and 6-in-a-row takeovers – providing space for high impact storytelling on the city streets.

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⁠JACK and Carhartt took to the streets at the peak of London Fashion Week to welcome in the new Spring / Summer collections with a collage of colour across billboards and kiosks throughout London, Manchester and Bristol. The campaign featured visuals that were photographed by London photographer Joshua Gordon and offered a kaleidoscopic view of the seasons ahead.

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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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We showcased its artwork across various formats, both digital and print. The campaign took a creative turn with interactive elements, including mirrors that allowed passersby to step into the album cover and snap a photo. The highlight of the campaign, was the striking installation in their hometown of Manchester, an infinity mirror that mesmerised onlookers, capturing their attention with its illusion. All locations featured a QR code, directing consumers to the new album to take a listen.

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The event invited passersby to reflect on and share their admiration for the inspirational women in their lives by writing their ‘woman of the year’ on notes provided. These notes were then added to the enlarged book cover, transforming it into a vibrant tapestry of names. Each contribution honours the women who inspire us daily, creating a powerful representation of womanhood in all its forms. It was a meaningful way to connect the community and honour the women who shape our world.

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With mega-site takeovers and a campaign that dominated the streets, the release was impossible to overlook. It effortlessly showcased Represents’ signature style in every corner of the city.

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DIABOLICAL and the label behind the release, Ninja Tune, teamed up to welcome Hallucinating Love to the streets of our cities in more ways than one. Posters were seen throughout Brighton, Bristol, Manchester and London, including a poignant and evocative takeover across our 1 Quaker Street. Complementary to the posters, visuals from the film were projected across buildings and walls under the London night, welcoming the album to the streets.

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Brand ambassadors were on hand, distributing the new take on Love Hearts (as well as the originals) inviting the public to rediscover the joy of these sweet treats. The event on Manchester’s bustling Oxford Road, gave passersby the chance to stop for a moment and enjoy a nostalgic bite of the iconic candy, perhaps sparking fond Valentine’s memories along the way.

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JACK ARTS brought this captivating new film to life across locations in Manchester, Glasgow, and London, teasing stills from the film’s stunning imagery with deep blue tones, leaving us eager to experience the film in full motion.

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A storm is coming… and to celebrate, we launched two creative billboards, in Manchester and London.The Manchester billboard featured a larger-than-life design that made it look as if the glowing, mythical creatures were escaping from the pages of the Empyrean series, complete with a teaser to build anticipation and prepare readers for the upcoming release. 

In London, the campaign also showcased all three books in the series, bringing Yarros’s thrilling world to life for passers-by. Some posters included QR codes, allowing readers to easily purchase their own copies. As night fell, UV lights illuminated the billboard, making the illustrated scene from the book come to life, leaving a lasting impression on those strolling by.  

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This ambitious exhibition features a wide range of media, including paintings, sculpture, and video, with many works chosen by the artists themselves. It invites reflection on timely questions about the present while also offering a celebration of creativity and resilience. Conversations aims to showcase the vibrant contributions of artists working in the UK today, offering a moment of joy and inspiration. JACK ARTS is spreading the word about this exciting exhibition across the streets of Liverpool and Manchester with site takeovers featuring selected works, bringing their powerful presence to the heart of the cities.

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Heading into their 10^th year, their Play it Forward Christmas appeal aims to raise enough money to fund a further 25 children’s musical futures. JACK ARTS partnered to take their message to the streets of Manchester in the lead up to Christmas to give their vital message the platform it deserves and help a musical child dream big.

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DIABOLICAL and Kilimanjaro Live welcomed back the monumental tour with six different creative billboards across London, Manchester, Sheffield, Cardiff, Liverpool and Birmingham. Portraying the gravity of the Martian invasion (as well as the dates of each show), the builds featured several Fighting Machines – as if they had been teleported from 1898 – towering over the streets, leaving a wake of destruction across each site. The billboards, just like the show, are not to be missed.

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‘For the collector, the curator and the simply curious’ MAF is one of the highlights of the contemporary arts calendar, JACK ARTS partnered with them once again to bring their bold campaign to the streets of the city in the lead-up to the opening.  The site-specific poster designs feature Kate Matsevych’s vibrant acrylic on canvas piece entitled ‘I’m not looking’ – the work was selected for the campaign due to its bold colour pallet and eye-catching cut out form, Matsevych is represented by Dalloz Contemporary.

From artist displays and gallery showcases to art talks, creative workshops and book signings, MAF provides a vital platform for working artists and brings the works to wide audiences in an accessible way.

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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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In partnership with JACK and Talon Outdoor, the campaign took over the streets of Liverpool, Manchester, and London, bringing the powerful message to life. The striking artwork, with its bold, eye-catching colours, draws attention to the defenders’ vital role in the game, engaging passersby and reminding them that true strength lies in teamwork and discipline. 

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The venue’s lasting impact is still felt today, its histories woven into the fabric of the city. Together with Headline Book’s we installed a creative billboard that encouraged passing locals to share their own stories of the club and add their narratives into the tapestry of memories.   The poster site, fittingly located across the road from the iconic nightclub’s entrance, was transformed into an old-school blackboard.  From the nostalgic and wholesome to the debauched and NSFW, the billboard brought handwritten memories flooding back onto the city streets almost four decades after it first opened its doors.

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We hand-selected space in the heart of Oxford Road to reach a young student demographic; the takeover site featured a tease and reveal element with the posters covered in free samples to remove and keep.. ‘pick a sample, not your spots’.  Alongside the creative build, the campaign included product sampling and engaging mirrored 4-sheet posters, encouraging passersby to add their own positive affirmations and bring their own voices in to the empowering street-side activation.

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Throughout August and September, size? invited customers in their UK stores to write uplifting or empowering messages on postcards for strangers. The response was overwhelming! This incredible outpouring of positivity inspired a collaboration with both brands, JACK, and Smart Media to launch an out-of-home campaign in Manchester and London. Our goal? To share these inspirational messages from complete strangers and spread some much-needed positive vibes. 

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With Liam Gallagher back in Berghaus and Oasis taking over the cultural conversation with their reunion tour announcement, this campaign turned heads at every corner. Vibrant artwork flooded the streets of London and Gallagher’s hometown of Manchester, ensuring that everyone knew Berghaus was back with its iconic best-seller and that Liam was once again proudly wearing it.

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‘The world is very very beautiful if you look at it, but most people don’t look very much. They scan the ground in front of them so they can walk, they don’t really look at things incredibly well, with an intensity. I do.’ David Hockney – a city-wide poster display with site specific artworks encouraged the public to look up, take note, and enjoy the work of this legendary artist in a whole new light.

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Working with Mediabridge, JACK ARTS supported the Trust’s national campaign ‘Space to Feel’ – which brought idyllic panoramas out of nature and onto our urban billboards across our UK cities, encouraging people to discover and explore places in the National Trust’s care. The wanderlust creatives framed on our street-level poster sites provided a visual portal, transporting the passing viewer to tranquil UK destinations encouraging pause and connection to our great outdoors.

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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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JACK ARTS worked with SCENE and Manchester City Council to shout about this new celebration of queer culture at sites across the city – from our striking portrait 16 sheet format to our colossal 48 sheet billboards.

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Teaming up with Energy Marketing Group, JACK helped bring Meta’s Instagram takeover to life across Manchester, Liverpool, and London. The campaign celebrated how friends—mates—use Instagram to capture and share life’s most memorable moments. At the heart of the activation was a striking mirrored ball installation, designed to reflect the vibrant energy of social connection. Passersby were invited to snap selfies, strike poses, and share their photos on Instagram, creating an interactive experience that brought the essence of the platform to the streets. The installation was as much a celebration of friendship as it was a perfect photo op, drawing people in and sparking a wave of online engagement. 

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And what could be better than a mammoth 6 metre chocolate biscuit perched on top of our billboard? … Free samples! Commuters in Manchester had the opportunity to pick up a PiCK UP! in sampling activation around the Shudehill bus interchange this week, bringing the latest snack to the streets of the city and into the hands of the public to try.

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Factory International’s latest immersive takeover of the Aviva’s Studios Warehouse, is a satirical delight for all the senses. Blending cinema and animation in a surreal snack-filled world, the ‘astonishing’ exhibition follows the story of the imaginary Feel Good Chicken Company. To mark the anticipated launch moment, we have filled the city with Sweet Dreams, taking the multi-sensory experience street-side in the biggest campaign of the year. Meet Chicky Ricky, Penny Peckish and The Boss to understand what people really want in this weird and wonderful journey into the food chain.

The city-wide poster campaign is complemented with a side-order of leaflet activations at key events including Manchester Day and Comicon Mania, bringing a slice of the action to the streets this summer.

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BUILDHOLLYWOOD has exclusive on-site access to Parklife, and got to work postering the perimeter. JACK, alongside Talon, embraced the beauty of a one-day festival-fling with Specsavers and their contact lens range. Manchester’s most talked about sandwich shops, Fat Pat’s, made a subtle appearance at the festival thanks to JACK ARTS and (alongside the bass) definitely caused some stomachs to rumble. DIABOLICAL collaborated with RCA Records on Kaytranada’s Timeless album, as well as a campaign for Boiler Room Manchester, cementing the city’s status as an enclave to rave.

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To mark the brand’s centenary, we worked with Kinetic Worldwide to take over the streets of Manchester with a vivid and commanding poster campaign. Posters showcased Belstaff’s new anniversary capsule collection with powerful portraits of Welsh artist Edie Ashley, in-house designer Ollie Barton, curator and film producer Peter Ogunsalu and model Amelia Backman, tiled alongside bold typographic designs in the brand’s familiar orange and black palette, and announcing the opening of their new store on the city’s buzzing King Street. 

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Veteran Parklife illustrator Guy Field brings a visual shakeup to the brand for his 8^th year designing, in the form of pop-art inspired cartoon shapes and a restricted primary colour pallet that pops on the street.  Parklife kickstarts a summer of festival fun, and it couldn’t come sooner.

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Teaming up with Island Records, we welcomed Silence Is Loud to the birthplaces of Jungle; London and Bristol, as well as Manchester and Brighton. The campaign was rolled out with two different creatives. The first showcased Nia dabbling in Brit-pop iconography while the second reflected the album artwork; allowing for passersby to get up-close-and-personal with an artist living passionately in the moment while rushing into the future at breakbeat speed.

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We worked with Talon on a series of location-specific billboards in the middle of the city’s buzzing transport hubs – from Oxford Road and Piccadilly to Deansgate and Salford Central – to bring the app to life. Shouting out drivers who might be ‘stuck in a jam’ to ‘try the tram’, giant signs spilled from the frame to promote the app, sign-posting the nearest tram stop and highlighting the low-cost options for commuters, in all-too-familiar bright yellow.

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To welcome to new look to the streets, we worked alongside Threepipe Reply; taking over poster sites throughout London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. The creative featured familiar faces from all three national squads representing the new home-and-away garms off the pitch, before doing so on the world stage. 

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It’s high time his story was told, and Tales from the Dancefloor, co-authored with bestseller Luke Bainbridge, reveals stories from the scene that explore the people, parties and politics that make Manchester thrive. We worked with Harper Collins to bring the story to life on the street of the city he lives and breathes; the book cover design reimagined on poster sites, takeovers and billboards across the city including hand-picked sites near the venues the book revisits, with bold neon green lettering and archival after-hours imagery. 

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TravelSupermarket, the UK’s leading one-stop shop for comparing holidays, has provided the nation with ‘super holidays at super prices’ for 20 years.  

Collaborating with Meanwhile and Brazil Street, we brought some badly needed summer sunshine to the heart of Manchester, kicking off the holiday-booking season in style. Reflecting the huge range of holidays available from TravelSupermarket, a 20-foot stack of 100 poolside inflatables – from crocodiles to watermelons, unicorns to pineapples – toppled out of a real shopping trolley, all magically attached to our billboard at Shudehill interchange. 

As well as delighting and inspiring thousands of commuters and passers-by, the campaign made a splash across social media, featuring in The Drum, Prolific North, TravelWeekly, and Creative Moment.  

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Ahead of the event at Aviva Studios, JACK ARTS hosted The Ear of Britain on our poster site in the centre of Manchester and locals shared stories around war, knife crime, privatisation, equality and naturally… the weather. Even local journalist and musician John Robb visited to leave his message for Britain. For those unable to visit in person, messages can be recorded and sent via WhatsApp. The recorded snippets will then form an evolving soundscape curated by Matt Black, founder of visionary record label Ninja Tune, that reflects the collective consciousness of the country. 

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As part of their new Try the Train campaign, we collaborated with Talon, Northern and CreativeRace on an interactive billboard at our bustling Manchester Oxford Road site. Encouraging people that don’t normally use the train to ‘give it a go,’ our billboard featured over 300 tearaway tickets offering free travel for two to anywhere on the Northern network, and passers-by flocked to bag their free tickets. Anyone who missed out could scan a QR code from the poster to redeem half-price tickets via Northern’s website and app, ensuring everyone had a chance to hop aboard this month.

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To launch the highly anticipated second instalment of Elliot’s story, which premiered on New Years Day, we worked with Talon Outdoor to create an intriguing campaign using our billboard sites in Manchester and Birmingham, sure to stop passers-by in their tracks. Linking into the first series, we created mock missing posters which were then fly posted on top of our billboards, overlapping and spilling off the frames as if Helen’s character had pasted them herself. 

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Joining forces with VCCP and Magic Eye Inc. on a tease and reveal campaign, Müller resurrected another 90s stalwart to create a mind-bending yoghurt-inspired optical illusion. Perfect for our takeover formats, we took Müller’s Magic Eye to the streets of Birmingham, Brighton, London and Manchester, intriguing and delighting passers-by of all generations, and slowly revealing the retro return of Mississippi Mud Pie and Strawberry & Orange Choc Balls.  

Müller’s campaign was featured by Campaign, Creative Review, Creative Bloq, and across social media – including a cross-generational TikTok from Roman and Martin Kemp. 

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We worked with Youtube to get the word out across Birmingham, Brighton, London and Manchester with digital-era inspired poster takeovers, championing colourful portraits of the platform’s line-up.

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We partnered with them to bring their 2023 edition to the streets of Manchester, with bright yellow posters and billboards featuring Victoria Coleman’s curious portraits of cats dressed as Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Yayoi Kusama and a bonus QR code offering passers-by exclusive free tickets to the fair. 

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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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JACK worked alongside Channel 4 and Talon, to bring the campaign to the streets of Manchester, Birmingham and London. With artwork reminiscent of 90s rave flyers, featuring psychedelic colours and icons, the campaign makes Partygate out to be the illegal house party that it was.  

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We teamed up with Books Are My Bag to bring their campaign to Manchester this year, working with two local illustrators to create a duo of hand-painted murals in the heart of the city; Maisy Summer’s in the vibrant Northern Quarter and Danielle Rhoda’s overlooking the bustling Shudehill interchange. Working with this year’s theme of ‘bookshops bringing people together’, both pay tribute to the vital part bookshops play on our high streets and within our communities. 

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‘Not for sale’ is the Guardian’s first global marketing campaign since 2019 and recently launched alongside the paper’s new European edition. Spearheaded by Lucky Generals and appearing across screens and streets, the campaign emphasises the Guardian’s strong tradition of editorial rigour and a reader-funded model that allows it to be ‘open to all but beholden to no one’. 

We worked with Talon Outdoor to bring the paper’s fresh new campaign to the streets of London, Bristol and Manchester with bright and bold posters, using the newspaper’s recognisable typographic style, that proudly proclaim the Guardian to be ‘loved, hated, trusted, feared… but never controlled’. The multi-channel campaign was also picked up by Creative Review, Campaign, Creative Boom and featured as The Drum’s ‘Ad of the Day’.  

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JACK went far and wide with this one, on campaign that takes the 3-stripes to new heights. Working with Kinetic we championed portraits of the local and global icons who brought the iconic trefoil to the forefront of culture. The campaign was seen throughout the streets of London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham in a continued celebration of Adidas’ lasting impact on culture, style and authenticity. 

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We teamed up with StudioCanal, to bring the beautiful story (and those just as beautiful reviews) to the streets of Manchester, Glasgow, London, Birmingham and Bristol, ramping up the excitement for the film’s release. 

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From boundary-pushing theatre and performance to mixed-reality concerts, thought-provoking art, never-before-seen collaborations, and live performances from some of the most exciting musicians of the moment, 2023’s festival was (as ever) a triumph. Our street poster campaign with MIF highlighted the varied, exciting, and stellar line-ups, as well as the underlying themes and fun of the 2023 edition, showcasing the festival all through the centre of Manchester with multi-format poster takeovers. Until 2025, MIF – we already can’t wait.

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As the campaign was centred around direct fan engagement, we attached comic-inspired clings to its street poster takeovers so that people could easily peel off and keep illustrations specially created for the show. On sites in the busiest spots that London, Birmingham and Manchester have to offer, it proved that Black Mirror was well and truly back with a bang. 

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Shot by Juergen Teller, the campaign contrasts street photography with shots taken in a theatre, and models posing as a ‘troop of renaissance performers’ on a stark black backdrop. The street posters featured across a multitude of formats in Manchester and Cardiff including our street-side drums (beautifully utilising that distinction in photographic styles by flipping landscape images portrait), and alternating images on takeovers for a checkerboard effect. 

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To celebrate the release, we teamed up with Penguin on a creative billboard in Manchester made from leaves holding basil and marjoram seeds, and a QR code revealing more information about the story. It encouraged passers-by to take a leaf off the billboard and ‘start [their] own adventure’ by growing the seeds at home. The author even paid the site a visit himself. 

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Over the course of the weekend, the station’s forward-thinking output is reflected through the programme: with Loyle Carner, Wu-Lu, Christine and the Queens, Lava La Rue, Arlo Parks, and The Big Moon featuring alongside an eclectic DJ line-up including Don Letts, Daniel Avery, Tarzsa, Erol Alkan, and Jamz Supernova. Billed at the O2 Victoria Warehouse, Band on the Wall and RAMONA, the announcement stacks up more credentials for Manchester to add to its already-impressive reputation for live music culture.

Ahead of the festival kicking off, we worked with the BBC to take its line-up across Manchester. With a street poster campaign covering the Northern Quarter, Deansgate, Shudehill, Oxford Road, and Piccadilly Station, it put the festival’s ‘music beyond the mainstream’ policy front and centre in the city.

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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 album release, we worked with Island Records on a show-stopping London mural, and a monochromatic street poster campaign that covered the English capital, as well as Birmingham, Glasgow, and Manchester. Sharing the band’s familiar faces on the street, the portrait shots reflect the warmth and closeness of the new-found sound.

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To launch the new collection on the streets of London and Manchester, we worked with Tangent Agency. Combining ambient activity with street poster takeovers of our sites through the heart of each city, we projected the all-weathers editorial shoot across the night in London, showing off the best of what 1TRL has to offer.

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To help Simz take over her home city of London, as well as Birmingham, Bristol, and Manchester with news of the release, we teamed up with AWAL. Surprising the streets with projections of the album artwork and street posters spotlighting her words of wisdom, the campaign creatives were simple but effective – allowing Simz’ concepts to sing. 

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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 release of the latest Pinch of Nom cookbook, we teamed up with Total Media in Manchester. Installing a huge, 3D model of the book to grab attention in a bustling Manchester Piccadilly station, we also had our brand ambassadors on hand for the day dishing out branded swag to commuters and city visitors.

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Championing their initiative for the third year in a row, we extended our partnership beyond Feel Good Club’s home city of Manchester by also flooding the streets of Sheffield, Liverpool and Birmingham with bold words of love and encouragement – ‘I want you to know you are one hundred thousand percent going to get through this’ and ‘I want you to know you’re allowed to need someone to talk to’.  

To spread these motivational messages even further afield, viewers were encouraged to ‘pass it on’ by scanning a QR code to send a free postcard to a friend or loved one via the Feel Good Club website. The posters received over twenty thousand likes via the posts they featured in across Feel Good Club’s social media channels.

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We collaborated with our client Loft London to get the word out across Birmingham, Brighton, Liverpool, London and Manchester. The poster takeovers brought news of the series line-up to the streets, with magazine cover-style posters bringing colour to the city.

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To celebrate Fossora’s release in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Manchester, we worked with One Little Independent Records on a street poster campaign across each city. Evoking the creative depth of the album, the poster displays brought the art and artist together on the streets.

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To celebrate the release of It Starts with Us, we teamed up with Simon & Schuster to spotlight the novel in London, Birmingham, and Manchester. Crafting creative billboards full of florals inspired by its cover artwork, the campaign blossomed in the heart of each city. 

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 We teamed up with Factory International to launch the new venue and its forthcoming programme right across the city. As one of Manchester’s most exciting and ambitious openings in recent years, the street poster campaign showcased the length and breadth of what the Factory is set to offer – theatre, concerts, dance, art, and experiences from major national and international names, including Yayoi Kusama, who’ll set the bar in the summer – with her ‘largest-ever immersive environment… conceived especially for the soaring spaces of Factory International.’ 

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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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Re-Imagination is shado mag’s project to interpret and represent the breaking down of society’s structures that have been constructed to marginalise the most vulnerable in society – through art. Working with lead curator Leyla Reynolds, exhibitions of the project in three UK cities have brought together a collection of local artists displaying new works for the first time.  

To platform shado’s exhibitions in Cardiff and Manchester, we partnered with the magazine for street-side takeovers that displayed a sample of the artists’ works on the street. Encouraging the community to get involved with the exhibition and its ideas, it was a vibrant way to examine empathy and engagement through art in each city. 

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While the British Art Show is examining the ever-evolving city through the lens of healing, care, and reparative history, A Modest Show asked its artists to devise work under satirical themes of food, hospitality, consumption, and dining – quite literally inviting everyone to eat Manchester artists. Enabling them to sit side by side on the street, our poster campaign and partnership with HOME took over the city with just the kind of vibrant and playful creatives you’d expect from the (somewhat) congruent shows.

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Our campaign combined an ivy-embellished billboard with an experiential stunt, dishing out medicinal bottles filled with peppermint seeds to passers-by. With each one having a QR code linking to the novel itself, it both engaged and created curiosity – inspiring people to check out the award-winning story straight from the street.

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This edition of the project brings together the work of Charles Stepney and David Axelrod, who’ve both released their own material and worked with acts like Earth, Wind & Fire; Gene Ammons; The Electric Prunes; Ramsey Lewis and The Dells. The commemoration will culminate in a trio of hour-long concerts, one each in London, Birmingham, and Manchester, comprehensively interpreting their music with performances from a 17-piece ensemble – including “genre-liberated strings, horns and percussions, with live visuals and experimental film.”

We worked with Music of the Unseen as its media partner to take the project’s concert announcements to the streets of London, Birmingham, and Manchester – ahead of the shows visiting each city in the autumn. We’re delighted to be helping throw the spotlight onto musical talent from the past that deserves to be paid its dues.

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We worked with Kinetic to bring Jeen-Yuhs to Birmingham, Bristol, London and Manchester, with mirrored creatives that asked the streets, “Who are you to call yourself a…?”, reflecting the documentary’s ability to provoke contemplation about the price of fame. Sitting next to warped portraits of its namesake figure, the campaign gave the film a distinctive profile on the streets of each city.

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With creatives that showcased Instax’s palpable vibrance and friendly, familiar branding, the tiled style of each billboard and takeover gave prominence to their warm philosophy – “don’t just take, give.” Featuring the whole family of Instax products and snapshots of the types of times the cameras preserve, it was the perfect way to remind people on the streets that there’s no better gift to give.

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After the success of our 2021 Manchester collaboration with Northern Quarter positivity-peddlers Feel Good Club, and long-term city leaders Manchester’s Finest, we teamed up again to brighten the streets of the north-west with good deeds and kind words at a time when they’re needed the most.

Taking in our sites right across the city, Notes to a Stranger was a joint effort to bring brightness and good-feeling to the people of Manchester – with Feel Good Club also hiding vouchers for free coffees right alongside their heartfelt messages on the street, for any passers-by lucky enough to spot them. With phrases and affirmations like, “It’s okay if you can’t give the energy that you think is expected of you today”, and “Be exactly who you are, in every given moment, and no, you never need to apologise for it”, the solid sentiments were hugely appreciated by the many people who witnessed them.

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We worked with Kinetic to bring the joy of Robin Robin to life on the street, taking the campaign to London and Manchester, and going big in Aardman’s home city of Bristol. Tapping into the film’s connections to nature, the campaign was all about its namesake animal – with creative billboards in each city providing hundreds and hundreds of packets of bird feed for our ‘feathered friends’, ready for passers-by to take away and remember the film by.

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With this edition’s focus on NFTs (non-fungible tokens for the uninitiated) – a mind-bending new blockchain technology that’s transforming the art world radically and expeditiously – we once again supported Manchester Art Fair with poster space in the city, raising awareness of the event and its forward-thinking programme. With the fair’s commitment to platforming and supporting artists, it brought their intentions right to the city’s streets.

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Use Hearing Protection charts the formative years of one of the city’s most seminal labels, looking at its innovations with design, technology and music, that all helped to formulate Manchester’s cultural identity as we know it today. Evolving past the city’s post-industrial days through to its place as a cultural hotspot, Factory Records gave rise to the likes of Joy Division, New Order, and The Hacienda.

To spotlight Use Hearing Protection on Manchester’s streets, we worked with Kinetic – taking over sites throughout the city with incredible yellow and black artwork that echoed one of Factory Records’ most iconic and recognisable designs.

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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 plenty of history to recount as a result, Liam and Noel Gallagher have released Supersonic into the world. Named after Oasis’ debut single, the book compiles complete, authorised, and uncut interviews into a chronicle of an incredible career that led them to become cultural icons of the nation – with years’ worth of feuds, iconic festival gigs and outrageous stories to pack pages with.

We teamed up with Hachette to give the book a special Manchester launch, taking over sites right across the city with a street poster campaign showcasing candid quotes and the Gallagher brothers’ trademark candour. With Oasis’ Manchester roots firmly fixed, it was the perfect way to celebrate the book release – right on their own turf.

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Tate Liverpool’s retrospective exhibition, Lucian Freud: Real Lives, set out to showcase a curated selection of the artist’s paintings, alongside etchings and photographs charting the course of his career. We worked with Kinetic Worldwide to bring the exhibition to heart of its local Liverpool and Manchester, taking a famous Freud portrait to the streets, alongside Tate’s iconic typography.

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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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We worked with Kinetic on a mega-campaign that travelled across Birmingham, Cardiff, London and Manchester, as well as TRNSMT, Parklife and Wireless festivals. Noting that Growth is a group project, the posters featured vintage-style artworks showcasing the stars of the show on the streets, accompanied by beautiful green and gold botanicals that nod to forthcoming change and progression.

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We’ve worked with the Southbank Centre to bring the exhibition to the streets of Brighton, Birmingham, London and Manchester, taking specially commissioned photographs of the creative works and participants to the streets they rose from. Presented in partnership with the National Academy for Social Prescribing, the digital and in-person exhibition that’s set to tour across the country make a huge case for the power and potential of creativity in people’s lives.

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For Beavertown’s summer campaign we worked with Posterscope to launch them across London and Manchester, as COVID restrictions ended, and people began to come together once again. Echoing their usual playful style with trademark cartoon-style designs and “We come in peace, pints and cans” messaging, it marked the beginning of the beer specialists’ successful invasion of our cities.

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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 TikTok to showcase the app’s musical side on city streets nationwide. With its music feature being responsible for creating hits, launching new artists to stardom, and bringing back forgotten tracks, the creatives centred around the app’s ability to let users “discover the hits of summer back in spring” and “be the person who knew them before they were big”.

The mega Discover Music campaign took over our sites in Bristol, Sheffield, Birmingham, Cardiff, London, Brighton, Manchester and Glasgow, pulling together creative billboards with 3D constructions, light-up elements, moving parts and flower installations, alongside street posters with sharp slogans in the app’s trademark colours and fonts. Our site by The Black Cap in Camden also provided a perfect backdrop for some of TikTok’s music creators to come and film viral content tying in with the campaign.

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To celebrate the new record, we teamed up with EMI to announce it on the streets, taking over our Shepherd’s Bush site with a mega digital and billboard display, alongside digital displays in Manchester. For the album’s release, we supersized its monochrome artwork on sites in central London and Manchester – ahead of it debuting at the top of the UK Albums Chart, making it the seventh time the band have hit number one with a full-length release.

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We worked with Kinetic to bring the slasher of the summer to our cities, taking the street poster campaign’s creepy and colourful creatives to sites in London, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester and Sheffield. Giving a nod to retro gore with dripping text and a neon colour palette, the campaign went down a storm on Instagram.

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Consisting of giant, monochrome captions, we installed the artwork onto some of the city’s biggest landmarks, including the National Football Museum, YES MCR and Manchester Arndale. Whether sought out or discovered just by chance, each one invited people to consider their own experiences of Manchester, and provoke them to re-examine the city in a different light.

Inspired by how the city stirs us, how it’s shaped in memories, and the emotions it provokes, we brought the project’s powerful, playful and political messages to life on the streets. Drawing on her own life experiences and understanding of Deaf culture, Christine’s taglines encapsulated Manchester through a brand-new dimension.

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Jointly curated by the Serpentine Galleries’ Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, and renowned poet and University of Manchester chancellor Lemn Sissay, the exhibition sought to examine the intersection of art and poetry, pulling together cultures, continents and languages across generations, all in the heart of Manchester. Each new work contributed was specially commissioned from poets and visual artists, situated throughout the city for people to pause and appreciate – all at a time when there are more words and images passing between us than ever before.

We teamed up with MIF to bring Poet Slash Artist to the streets of Manchester. Once again peppering the city with engaging artworks designed to draw passers-by into the festival’s cultural programme, we installed the project everywhere from our sites to gallery courtyards, to city streets. Poet Slash Artist then remained at HOME for the duration of the summer, receiving a glowing five-star review in The Guardian.

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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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Their 1991 release, The Black Album, is one of their most influential and famous records to date – not to mention one of the biggest selling albums of all time – so its 30^th Anniversary is cause for celebration, with a remastered release and cover album in the works.

We teamed up with EMI Records to bring The Black Album announcements to life on the streets, projecting the band’s famous logo around London alongside digital screen takeovers mirrored in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. The band loved the projections, sharing a selection of images on their Instagram – receiving over 225k likes.

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To drum up (even more) excitement for MIF’s 2021 edition, we brought its street poster campaign to the heart of Manchester. With events spanning music, food, contemporary art and everything in between, the creative spotlighted events with Arlo Parks and Damon Albarn alongside a collaboration with Lagos-based Homecoming, a queer gardening simulation by Robert Yang, and much more.

This year, we’ll also be working with MIF to bring to life a city-wide art project called Captioning the City – keep an eye on the streets of Manchester to find out more.

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The campaign’s bold and bright black-and-yellow artwork was impossible to miss on the streets. In their iconic font, the text and monochrome imagery focused on the paper’s points of difference – independent ownership, a progressive output, and their ability to be “the cat among the pigeons”. We put the landmark campaign on our sites and billboards around their hometown of Manchester, and throughout London’s boroughs.

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We teamed up with Blackmagic Design to raise the profile of Davinci Resolve 17 in London and Manchester, bringing the sleek campaign to the streets of each city. Taking over sites in hubs where creative innovation abounds, the campaign imagery showcases the cutting-edge interface and versatility of the software – sure to catch the eye of many creators.

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Blues Kitchen Manchester will bring their Blues & Barbecue offering to MCR, in the heart of Spinningfields and have secured a dreamy line-up of artists, from festival favourites to mighty local talent.  We announce their storming line up for the year ahead live on the streets of Manchester in a series of summer inspired listings: A welcome splash of colour and hope for a gig-filled future.

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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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Most banks and companies tend to go with colours considered “neutral” or “gender neutral” for their marketing: think Barclays blue, HSBC red. We joined forces with Klarna for a campaign in their trademark pink across London and Manchester to smash stereotypes and misconceptions around not just the colour pink, but fintech firms, money, millennials and more. The campaign, spread across billboards, digital screens and posters, are both pleasing to the eye and informative.

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Feel Good Club, is a wellness coffee bar based in the Northern Quarter that focus on spreading positivity and championing mental health. Manchester’s Finest showcases the best of Manchester from independent food, drink, arts & culture to theatre, music and more.  We joined forces with these Manchester powerhouses to showcase positive and empowering posters which included inspirational quotes, in a soft blue and pink colour scheme, including ‘If you need a sign to keep going, let this be it’.  With lockdown still in place and mental health at the forefront of our minds, we hope the messages were be seen by those who needed them most.

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Working with Kinetic, we put together billboard takeovers on the streets of London, Manchester and Birmingham. Featuring Lady Gaga’s striking, confident image staring straight at the camera accompanied by the sleek glass bottle of VOCE VIVA, we wanted to evoke the celebration of an individual essence, bringing luxury to the streets.

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The concept of gathering stories from past and present global histories comes naturally to Ahluwalia, who grew up a kid of the diaspora with Indian and Nigerian heritage. As a native southwest Londoner she remembers being surrounded by hubs of migrant communities in the 90s, going to Tooting to get her hair done and travelling up to Southall with her family to go to the butchers.

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“The last three years have seen fundamental changes to how we relate to one another as individuals and as a society. Britain has exited from the European Union; the pandemic has bought new geographies to our daily lives; Black Lives Matter has voiced powerful articulations of systemic inequality. Division/Revision is a reflection on how relations are being re-defined through seismic shifts in the current social and political landscape.”

Uta Kögelsberger

 

With everything in such a state of flux it seems fitting that participating artists’ work will appear on sixteen billboards and change daily for sixteen consecutive days in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Glasgow.

As you might expect the individual artworks are hugely diverse. From plain-speaking to intriguing, visually metaphoric to fantastical, playful to symbolic… Together they act as a fascinating, multi-perspectival intervention in the public realm that holds a mirror up to the turbulent and mutable times we are living through.

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The competition, entitled ‘Hold Still’, received an overwhelming 31,598 entries, which were whittled down to 100 photographs. With the support of Co-op the project was brought to a wider audience and we are delighted to be a part of the project by showcasing a selection of these powerful, thought-provoking portraits on the streets, nationwide. ⁠

The posters displayed include a selection of finalist works, from strong NHS Staff, and tired key workers to handcrafted rainbows, local heroes and emotional reunions – the portraits explore themes of love, loss, resilience, community, strength and hope, uncovering both our shared and individual experiences of the pandemic. We have displayed these provoking images across our poster sites, within the hearts of our communities nationwide to inspire and console, whilst being reminded of our own mantra, Community Is Kindness.

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WMC headed to YES for their first live gig in 6 months, to mark the anticipated event we transformed the exterior of the venue with a with a vibrant building wrap and custom-made front door sign, influenced by the famous Salford Lads Club sign.⁠

We created a bespoke building dressing that transformed the Manchester red brick façade.  Using paper and paste the building was transformed with album artwork designs in neon and black – and removed with ease after their three sold out, socially distanced shows were complete.

The simple act of transforming the venue exterior created a huge buzz and elevated the anticipated gig to new heights – The sky really is the limit with posters.

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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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The rate of new social housing is currently the lowest it’s been for 40 years, with over a million families on the waiting list. With their latest campaign, Shelter wants to draw attention to the issue, prompting the government to invest. We worked with them on takeovers across London that feature bold red and yellow text alongside real photos of real families, making it impossible for people to ignore the human reality.

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With billboards in darkest black and pumpkin orange, we took to the streets to take over London, Manchester and Birmingham. But these weren’t just any billboards – they were special builds, appearing normal by day and lighting up at night with spooky UV lights and neon paint. Creepy! Don’t forget it’s best sipped in the dark.

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‘Let’s Make This Love Normal’ and ‘Kindness At Its Proper Level’ are big-hearted thoughts… Purnell’s Your Space Or Mine COVID-19 collaboration with the BUILDHOLLYWOOD family is the latest in a long line of conscientious visual interventions on the urban environment. His Add Art project promotes likeminded designers’ and artists’ work. Selling Virtues is another initiative that seeks to critically examine the slew of unsettling messages and imagery we are often bombarded with in our towns and cities.

Purnell noted that “This pandemic has made clear we can’t maintain current lifestyles; if everything stops for just a few weeks, the effects are beyond comprehension. It has exposed to some, the need for family, to others the gift of community.”

In all three poster iterations hopeful and anticipatory phrases are broken into single words that range across bands of fuchsia pink and sap green, marigold orange, bumblebee yellow and clear sky blue. The minimal design – five bars of colour on a black ground – make Purnell’s heartfelt calls for fellow feeling all the more prominent.

Block black capitalised letters and no-frills kerning qualify the rainbow sentiment. Yes, the isolation, rigours and grief of past weeks, months have often bought out, demanded the best of people. But the stark design communicates an urgency: we cannot afford to lose sight of newfound acts of kindness, love and community. Neither must we forget the light these times have shone on social and occupational injustice.

There’s a lot of talk about things returning to ‘normal’, getting back to work, rebooting the economy… We’re not going back to normal. We will go forward to something else. We have to. Visual creatives with a conscience can perhaps help direct our future path, our future actions, so as to achieve post COVID-19 a fairer, kinder and more inclusive ‘Community Like Never Before’.

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Recognising this hypocrisy, artist Craig Oldham wanted to respond to Patel’s comments and the current situation with art. The agency family approached him to put out positive messages on its poster sites in Manchester, Oldham created a bright, colourful piece, which in large, bold lettering, reads: “may they never be deemed low-skilled again”. The text is set against the backdrop of a list of “low-skilled”, now key workers: teachers, warehouse coordinators and therapy professionals to name a few. It spotlights the people that we’ve often not only dismissed in society, but whose massive importance has now been recognised.

Speaking to Design Week recently, Oldham elaborated on his motivations for creating the poster: “It has taken a global pandemic for the government to recognise the value of all of its citizens and workforces. In only February of this year, Patel’s comments and, more to the point, the government’s policy on what determines a person’s ‘value’, are ridiculous.”

Oldham calls this particular form of hypocrisy “snobbery”, noting that the key workers’ input has always been integral to this country. “These workers clean, care, and deliver for this country, and they always have, global pandemic or not, so to suddenly switch just because they are now propping us all up as a nation and you’ve realised how important they are made me a little angry.”

While the work was born partly from Oldham’s anger, he says he wants it to serve as a positive show of solidarity with “all of those people continuing to work despite the crisis, supporting, caring, cleaning, delivering for every single one of us.” He points to the designs that ordinary people are spreading across the country as a symbol of the ways in which creativity is helping us through the crisis: the rainbows in support of the NHS that adorn every street in the form of paint, crayon, paper and collage, intended to uplift key workers.

“These rainbows are probably the result of trying to keep the kids entertained in tough times for families, but they’re also a creative gesture, symbolic of communities reaching out to one another with a promise of hope and better times on the horizon. That’s a real, powerful, graphic symbol, that fulfils a role of community and connectivity probably more so than any polished poster could.” he says. Above all, Oldham hopes that this pandemic will enforce what we now know to be true: that these workers didn’t become important overnight: “They always have been, and will continue to be, Key Workers.”

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In the run up to the next festival, MIF hosted a series of events throughout 2018 to raise awareness of The Factory, an incredible new major arts space being developed in Manchester. Earlier on in the year the pre-Factory events took the form of a collaboration with Warehouse Project, which we promoted throughout the city, and in October they brought the world premiere of Everything that happened and would happen by German composer and artist Heiner Goebbels to Mayfield, a former railway depot next to Manchester Piccadilly station.

We were excited to be asked to dress the venue for this special event, branding it externally with the striking monochrome posters and transforming the venue inside with their colourful branding – which created the perfect backdrop and gave MIF additional exposure for The Factory renovations.

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S&M2 is already a well-loved addition to Metallica’s extensive discography, and we’re proud to have helped them get the reception they deserve. To accompany their huge sound, we partnered with Virgin EMI for an ambitious build of an exploding violin against a black background at our site in Shoreditch, digital outdoor across London and a towering banner in Manchester.

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To get people really talking, we teamed up with Parlophone Records to tease out the old school album artwork, minus the album name, rolling out intriguing stunts across the UK. We headed to the wilds of Surrey to unexpectedly install a billboard in a field for fans to spot. We covered Birmingham with a series of show stopping projections and then took the campaign underground by putting up posters in a bunker in Clapham South – a photo of the site was posted on Coldplay’s Instagram page racking up 256K likes. To support these stunts we also ran a nationwide poster campaign. It’s safe to say that we have been successfully creating hype in the lead up to the release of ‘Everyday Life’.

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We were excited to arrange, install and run the whole project for the day on behalf of Penguin – and bring a little summer joy to all the shoppers and passersby in the busiest part of town.

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Umbro Head of Global Brand Marketing, Helene Hope, said: “Umbro was founded in Manchester back in 1924 and is still based here today, so it’s only fitting that we kicked-off our 95th birthday celebration right here in our hometown. Football is nothing without the fans and this piece of street art, created by fans, reflects the passion Mancunians and Umbro have for the game. I think every football fan in this city that comes to look at the wall will recognise the love for football on display.”

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The second season has already been well-reviewed, and to help Netflix launch it, we ran a poster campaign across London, Manchester and Birmingham. The artwork echo the 60s setting of the season, with bright yellows and pinks set alongside hypnotic black and white circles and retro patterns. Featuring photos of the cast, it’s an eye-catching promotion for a unique show.

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In this entrancing collaboration with Vintage Books we created bespoke special builds, complete with inky blues posters, golden highlights and delicate 3D golden bees spilling out of the billboard onto the surrounding frames and street. The campaign artwork was specifically designed for two of our street level sites in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and desirable Bricklane Bridge in London – allowing us to transform the neighbouring frame into a mysterious glowing doorway, enticing the passing public to take a peek. The use of 3D elements on the poster sites is a simple and effective way to bring the poster campaign to new heights and create intrigue and engagement.

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From the greatest ever directors to the greatest new directors MUBI hand picks the best of world cinema for you, in their latest campaign MUBI showcase a curated selection of these films, with simple bold colours overlaying a tryptic of film stills. Mubi.com.

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The “Stand up to power” posters are a compelling reminder of the fight that has gone before and an indication that we still have some way to go to make things better. The posters focus in on moments in history where injustice has been challenged: a woman protester being dragged along by police; one of the first same-sex weddings in 2014; a woman protesting for equal pay; whistleblower Edward Snowden; and images from the 1948 Empire Windrush. Not unexpectedly, the powerful imagery caught the attention of people on the street, who took pictures of the campaign and carried the message forward.

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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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Working with Present Agency, we executed a high impact campaign in key cities: London, Manchester and Glasgow. In London, the striking creative popped up everywhere from Soho to Shoreditch, in Glasgow it took over some of our busiest locations, whilst in Manchester it dominated 4 sheets sites, 48 sheets and a huge banner over-looking the Arndale Centre – hard to miss marketing for one of our favourite brands.

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We were excited to work with Good Stuff to spread word of the casting call on the streets of Manchester and Birmingham, with large billboards and 4 sheet posters of the campaign taking over key central city locations – the Gen Z audience couldn’t fail to notice.

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We were excited to work directly with Fred Perry on the outdoor campaign for the launch, with high impact posters across London and Manchester.

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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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Using our extensive portfolio of European owned sites in key locations, JACK executed an out of home solution that saw ‘The Game Before the Game’ campaign messaging hit the streets of London, Manchester, Milan, Berlin, Paris and Barcelona. All sites were selected based on their proximity to city centres, spectator venues, drinking hubs and transport links.

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Targeting the brands key demographic, the JACK team sourced key locations close to drinking hubs, nightclubs and live gig venues executing an out of home campaign across street level an elevated poster sites, as well as murals created by local artists in each city. A stop motion video depicting the London mural being created was also commissioned to support the campaign online.

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All activity was reinforced across social media channels under the #FindFrank hashtag. The campaign culminated in a nationwide authorized flyposting campaign, a process managed by Jack, from production to regional distribution.

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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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Starting in July with a series of album artwork posters across London, Manchester and Sheffield, the campaign continued across the festival season. Our team created a full-size version of the album artwork showing two people drawn in chalk outlines standing side-by-side. The standee went on tour across festival sites with pictures of festivalgoers posing behind appearing online via the hashtag #grabsyoubytheballs. The band even dedicated a page on their website to this experiential campaign (which maximised exposure of the band to as many of the 75,000 Reading & Leeds attendees as possible).

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