Sunday 17 March 2013

The BiG IssUe and Stik GrAffiTi ArTisT


A fantastic inspirational story of how not to forget where you have come from!!
I have bought 11 copies this week - I am keeping 1 and giving the rest to friends as gifts :-))

The ex-homeless graffiti artist collaborated with The Big Issue to give 75,000 prints away for free – one with every copy sold. Stik, who keeps a pseudonym to maintain anonymity, decided to give away the prints to support his homeless friends and in tribute to the work of The Big Issue. “My figures don’t have mouths, they are silent,” he said.“Most homeless people are invisible as well as silent. The Big Issue gives them a voice. The Big Issue is a great organisation which helps so many people to get back on their feet. I wanted to give something back to my friends who are still homeless.”

The Stik giveaway comes in the same week as The Big Issue vendors’ collaboration with marketing giants M&C Saatchi to create an advertising campaign set for newspapers and billboards across Britain.

Channeling their inner Don Draper, sellers from London, Bath, Bristol and Glasgow came up with a series of ads to highlight their unique retail businesses, with the ads appearing in national newspapers over the next couple of weeks and in outdoors spaces in the respective cities.


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