A trip to Urbis....

Me and Ymiss went to Urbis last week, we were actually intending to visit the craft markets held in the Urbis foyer. However we were left slightly disappointed with what was on offer, the only gasp causing thing was this button stall where the designer had made loads of different jewelry out of buttons. Altogether it only took us about 20 minutes to walk around the stalls, and we were left with a good few hours still on our hands so we thought we'd have a look at the other exhibitions that were on. The first exhibition was called "hacienda 25" which is supposed to be some legendary night club or something... needless to say we didn't really stay there long, the only moderately interesting thing was this wall were people had put up their confessions... So up the stairs we went to the second exhibition, and what are we greeted with??...

That's right a giant pencil :), after taking pictures of Ymiss doing various poses we saw the "Please do not touch" written on the floor (you can't see it in the pics, it's actually on the other side of the pencil). The next thing we see...

A giant tape measure plus a giant roll of masking tape in the background!!, Pretty soon we had enough giant stationary to put together a giant pencil case (handmade of course!)

chop! chop!, and to top it all off....

....A humongus pink stabilo boss highlighter of course! complete with it's own highlighted line, I'm not sure about all the other stationary but the pencil is the trophy used in "The best advertising and design in the world", which was the title of the exhibition, and dotted amongst the giant stationary were the winners of the categories, at least i think they were the winners, it didn't really say... First up, a lego advert...

This is an adorable remake of Lunch atop a skyscraper by Charles C. Ebbets, It's soo cute!! i know the photos small but the poster was massive had to move WAY back to get it all in, now the more serious adverts which really stop and make you think...

These pictures are from a German campaign, raising awareness of war orphans, what i've just realised is that the bullets are all on the parents, something i didn't notice when we actually saw them.. However it is these next adverts that really make you stop and think...

Just in case it's not clear it says "It's not happening here. But it's happening now" on each of the pictures, i love the way they've put something which is happening hundreds of miles away in a street we might see everyday. Anyway i don't think i need to write much about these, they speak for themselves, or as the caption said...