Thursday, September 3, 2009

Inhabitat - Recycled Billboard Vinyl Becomes Public Art

"Billboards get all sorts of (justified) flak for polluting our mind-scapes. They are everywhere, flaunting famous people — in expensive clothes, drinking sexy beer, promising us recession-busting discounts. Unfortunately, billboards are also responsible for a more tangible type of pollution. At the end of an advertising campaign, billboard workers roll up the heavy-grade vinyl and toss it in the dumpster. When Peter Schulberg experienced this waste firsthand, he immediately took steps to remedy it....."
Read how one gallery dealer turned discarded vinyl into public art.

Inhabitat - Recycled Billboard Vinyl Becomes Public Art
by Moe Beitiks