All Posts Tagged With: "billboards"
Weekly Poll: Regulating Signs and Advertising
They’re positioned along every major street, perched high above our busiest intersections, splashed on the sides bus shelters, waiting inside restroom stalls, and even on the backside of Kingston’s parking tickets. Everywhere you turn in the Limestone City advertisements are attempting to influence us with semi-informative bits of information pulled from the yellow pages. While [...]
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VIA Rail Ads Feature City Hall
The current economic climate has has made day trips, and stay-cations increasingly popular options for tourists. Most Kingstonians are now, more than ever, trying to save a buck. With local attractions including Fort Henry, museums focusing on everything from penitentiaries to the Great Lakes, as well as the nearby Wolfe Island Wind Turbines, the Limestone [...]
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Mobile Advertising Madness
Not to beat a dead horse, but where should we draw the line on advertising around Kingston? It’s a question I’ve asked before, specifically pertaining to the content displayed on the city’s fleet of buses. Today I’m moving away from the lukewarm conversation we’ve had about brands and messages on public transit, and focusing on [...]
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Everywhere There’s Signs
Image used under CC, and with thanks to avlxyz In case you haven’t guessed it, the topic du jour is signage. Everywhere you look around any/our fair city, you’ll see advertisements on billboards, storefront business signs, electronic lighting displays, event banners, and the list goes on. From the best place to get all you can [...]
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Top 5 Posts from 2008
Although this may instantaneously get lost in the sea of ‘Best of…’ and ‘Top 10′ lists from 2008, it’s that time of year where the Kingstonist team is reflecting on our latest trip around the sun. As Kingstonist gears up to celebrate its first birthday in less than two months from now, today’s post features [...]
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Punctuation is a powerful thing
I am going to make a confession. Not that this is something to be ashamed of, but more that it’s something that some people find a little….irritating. I am a grammar snob. I just can’t help it. Ever since I learned about the many uses of the comma, the beauty of a semi-colon and the [...]
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The DTZ Takeover
A noticeable amount of DTZ Barnicke signs have been spreading like an uncontrollable disease throughout Kingston in the past few months. These big, bright red billboards are being plastered on building facades, parking lots, and open fields, to peddle both land and office space that’s either for lease or sale. Although for lease signage is [...]
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