Video: Art from stamps
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Europe, although it has abandoned the visa regime in the Schengen Area, but most of the world's inhabitants still have to obtain a visa to admire the Eiffel or Leaning Towers. And in the passport of any traveling person, a lot of visas and entry stamps accumulate. Someone admires them or brags, and someone creates works of art from them.
Despite the globalization process, visa barriers are still the main means of controlling migration on planet Earth. Therefore, any traveling person has dozens of entry and exit stamps from various countries in their passport. You can admire them, or you can make works of art from them.
Recently, many works have appeared in which images are created using stamps from foreign passports. Mostly these are advertising posters. As an example, there are two ad campaigns that use clip art.
The first such advertising campaign is advertising posters for Viaje Mais Magazine. They depict objects familiar from childhood to absolutely everyone - the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Leaning Tower of Pisa. “You can travel around the city without crossing time zones”, “Three main things in your suitcase: a pair of comfortable sneakers, a dictionary and a Viaje Mais magazine”, “A magazine with excess luggage: a lot of content for your trip” - these are the advertising slogans placed next to the pictures from the stamps on these posters.
The second ad campaign, using images from entry and exit stamps, belongs to the Israeli radio company 93.6 FM (RAM FM). “Music has no boundaries” - written under the images of The Beatles, Elton John, Bob Marley and Kylie Minogue.
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