Wired News: London's Privacy Falling Down "Attention Londoners: Big Bobby is watching. That's the message of posters plastered along London's bus routes earlier this week to assuage riders' crime fears. But the posters are having the opposite effect on privacy advocates, who say the artwork is creepily reminiscent of the all-seeing authority described in George Orwell's 1984."
Even the Transport for London: Bus Improvements web site is kind of freaky, what with that one eye on the page blinking & all!
I work in advertising, and I can say that if I designed an ad like this, they'd likely send me for a drug test & maybe even some company sponsored psychological counciling. haha. I mean, who is this designer who thought this would be a good visual concept? It looks like a poster for some conspiracy sci-fi horror flick, not comforting promotion for safe public transportation. (links via Samizdata.net)
posted by Chloe | Friday 08 November 2002 11:37 PM
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