Les Fourmis' Campaign Sign Reuse Montreal

Les Fourmis' Campaign Sign Reuse
Montreal

The US elections will be over at this time next week: so what are we to do with all of those campaign posters the day after? We could follow the lead of the Quebec group, Les Fourmis (The Ants), who put political signage to new use after Canada's recent election. Click through to see the happy fate of these campaign posters...

Birdhouses! Les Fourmis organized a design and implemented it with stacks and stacks of colorful campaign posters. The resulting birdhouses are graphic and abstract, with a great big politician's eye here, oversized lettering there. The campaign signs were removed by the group from around their headquarters and transformed into simple birdhouses and messenger bags.

Who are Les Fourmis?
Anonymous people, citizens, neighbours and friends who get together to express themselves, share and shake things up a bit. They do it for their city, in their city and in life in general.

Comments (13)

fantastic!! as long as I don't have to see McCain and Palin's faces.

posted by LoriSF on October 29th 2008 at 9:44am
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another great reuse - bike fenders! check out this link:
fend for yourself

posted by kiddo katsu on October 29th 2008 at 9:47am
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Cute! kiddo

posted by LoriSF on October 29th 2008 at 9:56am
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Hey, that's Gilles Duceppe's eye! Vive le Québec libre!

posted by biteadamsapple on October 29th 2008 at 9:57am
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more below!
http://www.sidleecollective.ca/2008/10/sid-loves-les-fourmis---02.html

posted by peahen on October 29th 2008 at 10:06am
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And Jack Leighton's mustache :)

posted by Eve in Hochelaga on October 29th 2008 at 10:16am
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What a cool idea! I wonder if they provide a pattern and instructions?

posted by paintitbright on October 29th 2008 at 10:46am
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I've got an improvised art portfolio made from elections signs from 2000. It's funny to see the old slogans years later!

posted by Michelle of Montreal on October 29th 2008 at 11:08am
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paintitbright... That could probably be arranged, I'll see what I can do ;)

posted by Eve in Hochelaga on October 29th 2008 at 11:23am
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I *LOVE* this idea. Now I have to go see if there are any of these good coroplast signs left...

Weird tangent - there are Obama signs springing up in my neighborhood. I've seen 3 within 2 blocks this week. Not a big deal, except I live in Ottawa, Canada.

posted by ChzPlz on October 29th 2008 at 11:26am
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How bizarre that they're only Bloc and NDP signs. wonder why?

posted by wc_canuck on October 29th 2008 at 1:59pm
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It's because Harper's gang had pretty much removed all of their signs by 11am. I was there - we removed all the others during lunch. It's too bad, the red would have been fun to play with.

posted by Eve in Hochelaga on October 29th 2008 at 3:08pm
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LoriSF - but wouldn't it be fun to chop up your least-favorite politicians?

posted by whytephoenix on October 30th 2008 at 5:57am
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