We continue to notice an increase in the number of artists and activists installing artworks across the cities outdoor bus shell advertising spaces. Brandalism and New York based artist Jordan Seiler's Public Ad Campaign are among some of the projects that are inspiring a new wave of artists across the globe who are contributing to this rise in numbers.

That combined with the increased access online to information that those two networks have shared along with the availability of the ad shell keys have allowed others the ability to access these spaces.


In the run-up to the recent U.K. election, there was a huge surge in a number of politically related subverted posters installed across London, activists, and artists such as Darren Cullen and Occupy Design have been swapping out advertisements with what the Independent newspaper referred to as 'guerrilla anti-Tory adverts'.

Online, subvertising organization Special Patrol Group have been sharing and retweeting many of these works appearing around London on their Twitter account with other newspapers picking up on some of the works and including them in their publications.

The Work of HOGRE
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Following on from their hugely successful self-published book Advertising Shits In Your Head' (Strategies For Resistance), not for profit publisher Dog Section Press recently released a new publication with a focus on the subvertising work of this London based, Italian artist HOGRE titled 'Subvertising, The Piracy of Outdoor Advertising'.

We first discovered the work of the artist HOGRE about two years ago when we caught a glimpse of his adbusting works from the upper deck of the bus and have continued to keep an eye out for his subverted posters around London managing to capture photos of works here and there.