This appeared outside Surry Hills Library on Crown Street, and I couldn’t help thinking guerrilla marketing.

Look closer though. It’s actually nothing of the sort.

Bizarrely enough, it’s a research project. Part of the Visualising Research class at UTS, Poster: More Than A Gaze aims to “examine the potential of the poster as a ‘public and communicative’ medium in a public space.” They’re blogging too.

It’s 12 A4 pages pasted up alongside the typical band and club posters – and, although I used to have a radar for those things, I wonder how many people are tuned in? I’d be interested to see what, if any, reaction it got.

I often spot curious things in this window as I walk down Devonshire Street in Surry Hills.

It’s the shopfront of a design firm called Ascender, and this time it’s stocked with odd little felt patches bearing phrases related to Bjork’s old group, the Sugarcubes, like the songs ‘Mama’ and ‘Fucking In Rhythm and Sorrow’, ‘Blue Eyed Pop’, ‘Motor Crash’ and ‘Birthday’.

They blogged about it – you can see their back catalogue of window dressing there, too – though there’s not much by way of explanation.

You can see this big face on the corner of Arnold Lane and Goulburn Street, in Surry Hills, just behind Crown Street

The old BPM record shop (now Record Store/Machine Musik) wall’s a regular canvas for legal street art – check previous signatures from Anthony Lister and others on the curb.

The current piece is by Brad Eastman – Beastman. He’s part of the design/art scene in Sydney – and as well as founding the online publication We Are The Image Makers, and designing skateboards, he’s shown work at galleries like Oh Really, Stupid Krap and China Heights.

It went up six days ago, according to @recordstoresyd. Watch it go up in this slideshow.