New York commuters are likely familiar with this year's round of ads for the School of Visual Arts. "How Bad Do You Want to Be Good?" is the theme, with various posters and subway-car ceiling ads taking the theme in strange new directions. After the jump, the Williamsburger reaction, as sent in by a reader from Lorimer Street, "the second (or perhaps first) hippest subway stop in New York."
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How about: "How bad do you want to learn proper grammar?" Clearly Writing 101 is not a prerequisite at SVA. To the idiots who came up with this "clever" tagline": it's "How BADLY do you want to be good?" ONLY ADVERBS CAN MODIFY VERBS. Thank you, just needed a moment of grammar police brutality.
(I finally put a sharpie in my bag so I could fix the stupid ad, and of course that's the day they take it town....damn.)
Lorimer stop is the hippest? I don't know if I can get behind that.
It's where the L meets the G train for chrissakes. And we all know that there's not one thing about the G-train that's hip.
Unless running infrequently and going nowhere useful are somehow hip.
the rainbow poster recalls for me lots of 90s rave posters with a humourous twist. the cartoon is funny but the opressive heavy text at top & sides weighs the whole thing down . there have been a few books & shows of rave art from 90s but not nearly enough. rave art from 90s is far better than most of the shit I see in downtown galleries in 21st century & that goes triple for 2006 whitney biennial
I thought that Gawker was the home of irony.
This poster is pretty amazing, IMHO. It's like if Vice did "dos and don'ts" for advertising, this would be the Do.
