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April 30, 2010

Barclays Center Ad Campaign

Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn

DDDB has a little Photoshop fun with Barclays' recently launched taxi-top ad campaign.

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Noticing New York, Barclaying Up The Wrong Tree: "Brutally Weird" Advertising That Hits “Home” In All The Wrong Ways

Who thunk that one up? (Clunk!) And what were they thinking? What were they thinking?
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The advertising for the proposed Ratner/Prokhorov “Barclays Center” super-subsidized Nets basketball arena is so “brutally weird” to borrow a favorite trademark phrase from Norman Oder’s Atlantic Yards Report.

How incredibly tone deaf can an advertising copywriter be to promote what is one of the most notorious modern icons of eminent domain abuse as:

“Your Home Away From Home”

Posted by eric at April 30, 2010 1:04 PM