Video: Call Parade: payphone parade in Sao Paolo (Brazil)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Brazil is preparing for the first and only in the world payphone parade "Call Parade" … Its organizers, Toptrends and the telephone company Vivo, were concerned that such dull and nondescript payphones still stand on the streets of such a modern and beautiful city as San Paolo. Without hesitation, they announced a competition for the best design of street telephone booths, in which anyone can become a participant by registering and sending their design project by the organizer. It is curious that in Brazil, payphones are still popular, and no less than mobile communications. For example, in Brazilian megalopolises the number of payphones per person almost exceeds the number of mobile phones. If we talk about the number of street phones in all of Brazil, then today they say the number is up to 52,000. And each of them needs a new image, which is being developed by both professional artists and amateurs. Several hundred applications have already been submitted for the Call Parade competition with creative design options for telephone booths, some of which are funny, provocative, extravagant, and even downright stupid.
The egg-shaped form of street phone booths is traditional for Brazil. It is already many decades old: this is how the very first street phones installed in cities and suburbs looked like. They are made of inexpensive but durable fiberglass. In addition, this shape of the booth has anti-vandal properties, and it will not be so easy to break it. And it remains to be hoped that there will be very few people willing to do this, especially after city payphones are transformed and turned into real works of art.
You can familiarize yourself with other design options for street phones and take part in the voting on the official website of the Call Parade Brazilian Payphone Parade.
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