These series of famous artists “dissected” to reveal the art within them is an ad campaign for the MASP art school in Brazil. The campaign features the artists Salvador Dali, Pablo Piccasso and Vincent Van Gogh.

Source: Bizarre Beyond Belief

Here’s an interesting statement from the street artist Banksy about his thoughts on advertising.

Source: Signal Noise

Here’s a commercial for the latest Skate All Citys skateboard deck designed by the graffiti writer Utah.

The Toronto-based graffiti artist Elicser appears in the latest commercial for Molson painting a large mural.

Last week TATS Cru went after the car company Fiat after one of their murals was featured in the Jennifer Lopez car commercial without permission. Both sides have now come to an agreement.

The New York Times reports that TATS Cru’s lawyer, Stacey Richman, said in statement on Thursday that the muralists and Fiat are “excited to announce an additional collaboration” in which Fiat is giving them a car to paint and then auction off to a charity of their choice.

Read more here.

The television commercial for Fiat starring Jennifer Lopez which features her in her hometown of the Bronx was actually shot in LA studios. Now it’s also started a copyright dispute involving the TATS Cru who’s copyrighted ”I HEART BRONX” mural was featured in the ad.

Read the full article here.

HBO has made a deal with New York’s Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) to roll out prohibition-era subway cars to help promote the second season of “Boardwalk Empire“, a drama set in 1920s Atlantic City.

The vintage cars will run in Manhattan on weekends in September, and will feature images of the TV show and period-appropriate paraphernalia. HBO paid the MTA $150,000 to run the large-scale advertisement.

Source: Design Taxi, Wall Street Journal

The New Zealand police are using some interesting tactics to recruit potential police officers. They’ve recently used these graffiti stencils to help promote becoming a police officer.

Source: Revok, Ads of the World

These 3D posters were created by Phil Cladilon and Steve Milbourne along with their intern Xavier Barrade, the huge sculpted paper horses were designed in Google Sketch Up, printed out, and hand-assembled. The posters are advertisements made to promote an upcoming band, Dry the River.

Source: Design Taxi

This is a pretty fun viral advertisement for Bon Yurt (a brand of yogurt from Columbia) where a group of artists are set loose in a gallery space armed with tons of blenders, paint, and over 700 small glasses and build a sort of audio equalizer with gallons of toxic goo extracted from neon glow sticks.

Source: Colossal