Disclosure: I’m not promoting or condoning this app- I just happened to see 2 billboards for it over the long weekend and thought it was funny enough to share it. The first “High Vancouver” billboard was spotted driving back into Vancouver from YVR, perhaps banking on cannabis tourists arriving to the city. The second was in Brewery Creek – an area full of breweries and a number of dispensaries.
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This made me think of a thesis presentation on the Arbutus Corridor which featured the Weed Maps app billboard in a site inventory photo… It was funny because somehow it tainted or skewed the design proposal ever so slightly, if not grounded it in reality… since generally in developing designs for public spaces there is an omission of the background noise (advertising) which actually occupies a fairly substantial amount of real estate, in terms of both footprint and ‘visual impression’.