Aap! - Alternative Advertising Possibilities

We’re big fans of our iPhones, transportation systems and maps in general. Today you can combine all three and carry subway systems maps in your pocket.

Instructions on Usage: These maps take advantage of the natural thumbnail view present in the photo albums function of the iPhone. When seen together the tiles reassemble visually making the entire map more navigable. For a large system like Tokyo or New York this is crucial. Zoom and pan to see full details and stops along your travels.

Instructions for Installation:

Simply download the image directory and load into into your iPhone via iPhoto. For Windows or Linux users - please see http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Enjoy the following cities formatted for your iPhone by Aap!Global

Tokyo Subway System iPhone Map > Download
Greater Tokyo JR Railway iPhone System Map > Download
Santiago de Chile Railway iPhone System Map > Download
San Francisco BART iPhone Map > Download
Boston iPhone Subway Map > Download

New iPhone Maps

Madrid iPhone Subway Map > Download

Lyon iPhone Subway Map > Download

Brussles iPhone Subway Map > Download

Hong Kong iPhone Subway Map > Download

Singapore Subway iPhone Map > Download

Osaka City Subway iPhone Map > Download

Toulouse Velib Map for iPhone > Download

Dutch Railway System Map for iPhone > Download

Other world system maps formatted for your iPhone

New York City iPhone Map by Khoi Vinh

London iPhone Map by Randy Plemel

DC Metro by Jack Barse

Know other systems out there? Want Pyongyang, Mexico City, Rio or other cities?

Let us know and we’ll post them here.

“The UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections has selected and digitized 5,124 of the more than three million images contained in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News photographic archives. The photographs chronicle the history and growth of Los Angeles from the 1920s to 1990.

This collection of digitized images is made available online by the UCLA Digital Library to assist a wide variety of researchers, including scholars, educators, students, writers, filmmakers, urban planners, community activists, librarians, and members of the general public.

The selected photographs depict historically and socially significant people, places, and events, as well as preserve glimpses of everyday life in Los Angeles. The images fall into broad categories that document politics, urban and economic development, arts and culture, the entertainment industry, crime and law enforcement, religion, sports, gender issues, and popular culture and trends.”

Like Flickr and all other massive media galleries prepare to lose hours of time navigating the web, but be inspired.

For us @ Aap!Global its a great way to celebrate the richness of Los Angeles - warts and all included.
Here are some of our favorites while searching:

Local Korea Town Out Door Signage

Sunset Billboards 1975 - Looks the same as 2007

Irvine Rebranded in 1965

and thousands more…

ShuffleSaver is a dynamic screensaver that grabs your favorite photos (by tags, username or interestingness) from flickr.com and shuffles them. So everytime your screensaver starts, you will see amazing new pictures. You can even create favorites of your settings or save your favorite images to your harddisk. Screensaver’s are not boring anymore…

• Loads your favorite photos from flickr.com and shuffles them
• Get new photos everytime the saver starts
• Favorites: save different settings
• Skip pictures you don’t like
• Save pictures you like by just pressing a key
• Choose from beautiful transitions

Why you need this to Get out of XXX or whatever industry you are a part of:

As Paul Arden of Saatchi & Saatchi so clearly points out in his mini essay in the collection “It’s not how good you are, Its how good you want to be.” >
“Get out of Advertising”

With “90% of advertising inspiration comes from other advertising. To be original, seek your inspiration from unexpected sources.”

Download ShuffleSaver to be greeted by random and inspiration photography from the depths of the Flickr Vault.

Onitsuka Tiger of Japan has recently launched a promotional mini-sitelet displaying a mosaic shoe made of thumbnails and image links to Japanese sites.  Clicking on tiles takes teh visitor to one of hundreds of sites craweled by flash engine.  Images and links appear to refresh to reflect different models of brand.

Definitely fun and fresh - plus a unique way to explore the web.

While a bit nationalistic for our tastes with the “Made of Japan” slogan - we commend the agency for their creativity.

Visit the site - you’ll have fun

In its efforts to foster talent among young artists from Japan and abroad, Tokyo Wonder Site has held street painting sessions and Hip Hop projects, treating graffiti and club events as familiar and important parts of our culture. For this exhibition, together with Agnès B, TWS Shibuya is exhibiting a set of collaborative works made by two internationally active artists, Shephard Fairey aka Obey Giant and WK Interact.

With both of these artists coming from a background of making works filled with visuals that transcend the already visually saturated, sign-filled urban environments they both come from, the works on show in this exhibition have been made to the theme of “propaganda”.”

So states Tokyo Art Beat on the Obey Giant vs WK Interact “East/West Propaganda Project”

We’re big fans of the Obey Giant “global” brand and other similar Banksy like outdoor graphics.

In Tokyo check out the show on some of the most successful propaganda/ guerrilla grafitti campaigns in history @

Venue: Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya

Schedule: From 2007-03-23 To 2007-04-22

Address: 1-19-8 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0041

Phone: 03-3463-0603

A student interested in advertising contacted us and asked:

“Dear Aap!? How do you guys come up with all your crazy ideas? - Seriously where did you come up with the idea to put advertising on handrails? And more importantly how do you get the permission to do them? “

Our response? - Just one word - Coffee.

Drink enough of the canned Japanese variety and you too will be thinking up random and fun exciting thoughts.

To find the perfect blend to your need - we recommend the wonderfully delightful Canned Coffee blog - a review site of sorts covering the world of canned (Japanese)? coffee.

Go drink and be productive.

As for getting permission to do some of the things we do - we attribute it to persistence - as our friends at Nike would say - “Just Do IT!”