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After the March 26 arrest of the man who allowed a giant illegal supergraphic sign on his Hollywood building, The Wrap, which covers Hollywood entertainment news, published an article about the predominance of ads for TV shows and movies on illegal signs around the city and the fact that advertisers aren’t held responsible for the [...]

Supergraphics on building at 4929 Wilshire Blvd. A third face is covered with a statue of liberty image. Back in October, we asked the question–What will be next?– for a Wilshire Blvd. office building displaying a multi-story supergraphic image of the Statue of Liberty, the calling card of Michael McNeilly, self-proclaimed artist and owner of [...]

Signs shown on Lincoln Blvd. were installed four years ago, taken down last week Fuel Outdoor, the rogue sign company that failed to win a lawsuit challenging the city’s right to ban new off-site advertising signs, has begun taking down the movie-poster style signs installed without permits in a number of locations.  Whether the New York-based [...]

Detail of bolts and cable holding supergraphic sign on Hollywood Blvd. building. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich said the 8-story sign could pose a hazard to people on the street below. The highly-charged debate about the $1 million bail set for a man accused of allowing an illegal supergraphic sign on his Hollywood Blvd. [...]

Illegal Supergraphic ad for Asics shoes on Hollywood Blvd. (Credit: Curbed LA) Update:  Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the owner of the building and the sign company responsible.  See L.A. Times article. Our friends at Curbed LA were out in the middle of the night covering the removal of the giant supergraphic ad [...]

Supergraphic ad for 2007 movie "Transformers" being torn off by wind. The building is at Sunset & Vine in Hollywood. (Credit: Curbed LA) Friday night’s arrest of Kayvan Setareh for allowing an 8-story supergraphic ad to be wrapped across three sides of an historic Hollywood building was not the first time the Pacific Palisades man [...]

Supegraphic ad on First National Bank Building for "How to Train Your Dragon," a Dreamworks film scheduled to open March 26 One day after the City Attorney filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a company for putting up illegal supergraphic signs,  another company installed an apparently illegal sign on the historic First National Bank Building [...]

National Promotions & Advertising Sign Cited by City For Violating Sign Ordinance Peter Zackery, president of an L.A. company specializing in poster-style advertising on construction fences and  walls of liquor stores, donut shops and other small businesses, is one of the defendants in the major lawsuit filed this week against World Wide Rush, a Pennsylvania company [...]

The billboard to the right of the Rainbow sign will be replaced by one nine times larger In an ongoing quest for revenue from billboard companies eager to expand their presence in the visual landscape, the West Hollywood City Council has approved replacement of a 144 sq. ft. billboard on the Sunset Strip for one 20 [...]

Trailer billboard parked on Cahuenga Blvd. The business advertised is several miles away. A bill to ban billboards on trailers and trucks parked on public streets has been introduced in the California State Assembly by two L.A. area legislators. The bill, AB2756, states, “Not only are mobile billboards a visual blight, but they pose a significant [...]

Is it an eyesore, or is it abstract art? This striking addition to the visual landscape is located at 20940 Ventura Blvd. in Woodland Hills. CBS Outdoor is a division of CBS Corp., which earned $3.5 billion in revenue the last quarter of 2009, but with such a far-flung media empire maybe it’s unreasonable [...]

Truck with crew removing Fuel signs in New York. Photo by Public Ad Campaign Fuel Outdoor, the rogue sign company known as Metro Fuel in New York, is apparently taking down its signs there as a result of a ruling yesterday by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that the nation’s largest city has [...]

City Councilman Paul Koretz speaking at Area Planning Commission hearing: He called digital billboards a blight on the community The L.A. Building Department should not have issued permits for three digital billboards on Westwood and Santa Monica Boulevards, according to a unanimous vote of the West L.A. Area Planning Commission.  The decision, which cannot be [...]

Jordan Seiler, right, covering sign on Silverlake drugstore, left Jordan Seiler,  an artist who last year organized other artists to whitewash and create art on more than a hundred illegal billboards (see video here) in New York, brought an example of his “Taking Back Public Space” campaign to L.A. last week by [...]

Back-to-back Digital Billboards in Westwood On Wednesday, Feb. 17, the West L.A. Area Planning Commission will decide if  the city lawfully issued permits for three digital billboards in the Westwood area.  Late last year, a zoning administrator ruled that two of the billboards, owned by Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor, violated local zoning [...]

Hollywood First National Bank Building An outdoor advertising company apparently intends to install two giant digital “screens” on an historically-registered building on Hollywood Blvd., even though such signage would run afoul of the city’s ban on new off-site signs as well as  restrictions regarding historic buildings. Known as the First National Bank Building, the 13-story [...]

One of Two Bus Shelters In Front of Venice High School One afternoon three years ago, just after classes let out, a 17-year old student at Venice High School in L.A. was shot and killed in the school’s faculty parking lot, just feet from two bus shelters in front of the school that now display movie [...]

Will Amber Alert Signs on L.A. Freeways Soon be Showing Ads? Maybe it could be called the idea that has nine lives.  Each time it comes up, a chorus of criticism arises from citizens and many public officials, and it gets shelved, only to reappear at a later date.  See Governor Gearing Up to [...]

Clear Channel digital billboard at intersection of Silverlake Blvd. & Effie St. The digital billboard in Silverlake that caused a community uproar when it first appeared two years ago has been turned off—at least for now.  The electronic, jumbotron-like sign is in the district of L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti, who has publicly stated in [...]

After a federal court judge ruled two years ago that Los Angeles couldn’t ban advertising signs on private property if it allowed the same kind of signs in bus shelters and other pieces of “street furniture,”  the company that sued the city filed a nearly identical claim against the city of San Francisco, which also [...]