“Power, paper, and profit: street posters and the making of urban visual culture” is out now open access in Space & Culture

Melbourne is full of framed bill posters and is arguably the best poster city in the world. How do these street posters work, how are they regulated? And what contributions do they make to the visual character of the city, alongside graffiti and other signage?

Chris Parkinson and I started this project about two years ago with a keen drive to answer these questions. We did some πŸ”₯ πŸ”₯ πŸ”₯ interviews with the four big street postering companies in Melbourne: Plakkit, Rock Posters, Shout Out Loud and Revolution360 – and this is the first iteration of some of the results.

Read our paper here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/12063312251367276.

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