Art for Ransom - great idea born via the Art Director’s Club of Denver

Check out the Art For Ransom post at the Denver Egotist, a project that spawned from the Art Director’s Club of Denver's ‘The Brief.’ A live creative brief (written by Factory Design Labs’ Steve Whittier and Stella Yu of Arts Street) was presented to teams of 4 students and 1 CD or AD. The teams were given a limited time to concept and design the next fundraiser for Arts Street. Their response was "Art For Ransom" - covering up public art with black plastic bags and caution tape alerting folks to the URL:

“It’s really a great way for people to understand that public art and all art in the city comes at a cost, and like non-profits that support the arts, are struggling in these difficult times,” said Erin Trapp, director of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs.

art for ransom video.

I like it. It beats beheading the little mermaid (a drunken Swede tradition when we've gotten way too drunk on cheap Danish beer, hehe).