„..employ a vandal, get a vandal“ / Downey & das KaDeWe:

Dave the Chimp auf seinem Fotolog zur (in der Presse heiss gehandelten) KDW-Aktion:

„At 5am this morning myself and a group of others met the artist Brad Downey in thedowney kdw shopping district of West Berlin.
Downey had accepted a commission from the clothing label Lacoste to create a window display for them for the department store KaDeWe.
He had refused to tell his client what he had planned for the window, and they were growing increasingly nervous.
Downey’s idea was, if you‘re going to employ a vandal, you‘re going to get a vandal.
So, after the shutters went up on the store just before 6am, he took a fire extinguisher loaded with green paint (the corporate colour of Lacoste) and sprayed the front windows and sign of the store from one end to the other.
My job was simply to wait with a bag at the other end of the store with which to conceal the fire extinguisher while Downey headed off to the escape vehicle.
I then headed around the block, changing my shirt, and joined up with J….. who filmed the event, to advise him what the police were up to and be his look-out while he filmed them.
Downey plans to show the video of the action alongside the fire extinguisher as his window display (that is, if his client doesn‘t kill him first!)

German news sites have reported the action, but seem to think it’s a political comment as the windows are currently showing the work of a Chinese designer!“

Edit: ..und in der heutigen Print-Ausgabe des Tagesspiegels, dieser Text auf Seite 1 im Berlin-Teil.

(Photo: dpa)


10 Antworten auf “„..employ a vandal, get a vandal“ / Downey & das KaDeWe:”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 frischgestrichen 23. Mai 2008 um 11:25 Uhr

    geil guerilla marketing deluxe

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 just 23. Mai 2008 um 13:13 Uhr
  3. Gravatar Icon 3 Besucher 25. Mai 2008 um 0:38 Uhr

    Was ist an Guerilla Marketing geil?

  1. 1 Sprayer rüsten auf: Großangriff aufs KaDeWe | Pro Graffiti - Streetart your Life! Pingback am 23. Mai 2008 um 9:15 Uhr
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  3. 3 ..ein Deutscher kotzt sich aus: « Berlin based Urban-Art / Street Art Blog Pingback am 24. Mai 2008 um 21:27 Uhr
  4. 4 rebel:art » Blog Archive » Brad Downey: “Employ a vandal - get a vandal” Pingback am 27. Mai 2008 um 1:16 Uhr
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  6. 6 “…emlpy a vandal, get a vandal” - Brad Downey und das KaDeWe Berlin » Beitrag » whats wrong with the zoo Pingback am 28. Mai 2008 um 15:32 Uhr
  7. 7 Lacoste, KaDeWe und das Graffiti | Pro Graffiti - Streetart your Life! Pingback am 29. Mai 2008 um 12:07 Uhr

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