The Graf­fo­graphy and Wgtn Wall Street graf­fiti blogs noticed that the Wel­ling­ton City Coun­cil’s anti-graf­fiti posters (you know, these ones) had illus­trated the evil graf­fiti by using a photo col­lage of actu­al non-illeg­al graf­fiti.

Wgtn Wall Street says:

My man over at Graf­fo­graphy first aler­ted me to the work by Dryp­nz and Ran­dom being used in the cam­paign, art­work that broke no law and was now put under a neg­at­ive spot­light by the Coun­cil.

So then Wgtn Wall Street emailed the coun­cil with his con­cerns.

They were apo­lo­get­ic and appar­ently the ‘pho­to­graph­er’ did­n’t know that the work used in the cam­paign was deemed leg­al. They agreed to remove the work from future cam­paigns but god knows how many posters, stick­ers etc that have already prin­ted and not to men­tion the amount of money wasted on a poorly researched scheme.

It does­n’t reflect so well on the coun­cil. Their anti-illeg­al-graf­fiti cam­paign seems to demon­strate that they don’t actu­ally know what they’re fight­ing.