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Printable Cold Sores is another graffiti project that repurposes and defaces advertising. Their message is similar to that of the Abstractor I blogged about earlier this week; modern advertising is damaging.

The mischief maker behind the curtain at PCS created a set of printable stickers featuring a variety of ugly cold sores. The idea is for you to print them out and stick them on the massive lips of advertising models in your city.

It’s a small way for the average person to fight back against the increasingly unrealistic advertising of the beauty industry. After all, someone’s gotta bring these Photoshopped proto-humans back down to reality.

Nowhere in advertising is the gap between natural beauty and manufactured perfection more apparent than on subway posters. As we wait for transportation, we are unwillingly assaulted by larger-than-life representations of supposedly beautiful salespeople.

The site is still small, but invites you to submit your photos of the stickers in action. The usual disclaimers of illegality and non-responsibility apply. The photos will presumably be posted on the PCS blog at a later date.

I haven’t seen any alternative uses online yet, but I thought of a simple variation. Use the stickers on election posters, make Harper look like he’s been gettin’ passed around. Election posters irritate me more than any eight foot tall Revlon lips ever could.

Related:

• Abstractor - Turn Video Billboards Into Graffiti Art
• The Ad Generator
• “Your Ad Makes Me Sick” at Adverblog