Sack Boris 2012 are trying to raise funds to run an advertising campaign to promote their cause in advance of the London Mayoral elections in May.
They’ve posted scamps of the two posters that they intend to create and run. They both pay homage to Saatchi & Saatchi’s Labour Isn’t Working poster that set (and continues to maintain) the bar for political advertising.
Whilst adverts that are pastiches, imitations or pistakes of prior campaigns can never live up to the originals, I would nevertheless love to see these posters get made for real.
These two iterations are directly relevant to issues that are live in the election race and the visual and linguistic mechanic of the original hasn’t been stretched too far.
Have to say – Ken’s new video is a whole lot better than the last.
http://www.kenlivingstone.com/newvideo
With the exception of the Steven Pound fiasco of a video, I think the Fare Deal ones (the first animation video you covered and the ‘pickpocket’ posters have been far stronger than expected.