Monday, June 3, 2013

DKNY Campaign Combines Art With Augmented Reality

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For 16 years, the intersection of Houston Street and Broadway in New York City was crowned with a large billboard featuring a black and white montage of southern Manhattan inside the letters "DKNY" (pictured above). The billboard was pulled down in 2008 after Abercrombie & Fitch purchased the building that supported it — a change that not a few New Yorkers mourned.


Five years later, DKNY is reviving and expanding its outdoor advertising efforts through a variety of art installations around the world. DKNY has commissioned 10 artists from 10 cities — New York, London, Paris, Milan, Dubai, Kuwait City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo — to create outdoor art that interprets New York City in the context of the city in which each installation appears. Works will include billboards, sculpture, projected media and kiosks. Read more...


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