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News

April 2012

       New Publications section added and Clippings updated with press clippings fom 1980 to 1986.

       Plus, the Rogues Gallery updated with 40 of our 'Earliest Hits'




January 2012

A Hungry Jack's billboard in North Perth promoting its premium range of burgers has been daubed with the message, "Obesity has never tasted so good"..

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June 2011

Subtle spraycan art attack on public spaces in Kabul is trying to prod Afghans into asking questions.

Read the article... and Kabul Graffiti in pictures




May 2010

A health and environment campaign group from the 80s that targeted cigarette ads appears to have made a come back.

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April 2009

Peter Stuyvesant’s Adelaide Smokeasy Peter Stuyvesant’s Adelaide Smokeasy. Adelaide hosted a secretive and controversial party – a promotional event for Imperial Tobacco’s Peter Stuyvesant cigarette brand, which hosts similar parties in a different Australian city each year.

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March 2009

fred cole, 1926-2009 (he insisted on small letters) went to war in the Middle East towards the end of World War II and claimed to have entered Germany driving a tank. But he will be remembered most for his successful campaign with BUGA-UP.

BUGAP pays tribute




December 2007

Lord Bloody Wog Rolo, 1945-2007 was an electronics engineer who made his living as an auto-electrician and installed car alarms. He called himself a professional alarmist. Others call him one of Australia's great stirrers.

BUGAP pays tribute




July 2007


Mays Lane wall gallery presents a tribute to the billboard modification crew of the 80s.



Updated April 2012