Sadly, the era of the phone booth is slowly slinking away into the shadows as people become more and more attached to their mobile phones. Yet, like Polaroids and cassette tapes, these once necessary, now retro, telephone pods are easy targets for artistic expression in hopes of keeping them alive.
So, take in these phone booth creations now, we don’t know how long they will be around.
12 Phone Booth Creations
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Guerrilla Urban Knitting
Knit the City is Yarnstorming London with Wool
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Urban Aquarium
Fish Tank Phone Booth
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Racy Phone Booth Editorials
'Hello Operator!' Heats Up Flaunt Magazine
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Scandalous Fashiontography
Andy Tan Captures Fishnets, Femmes & Phone Booths
8
Guerrilla Tourism Ads
Time to Thaw: South Carolina Tourism
7
Phone Booth Libraries
Community-Run 24-Hour Micro Library in Somerset
6
Cell Phone Cell
Artist Mocks Tech Addictions
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Futuristic Phone Booths
Joao Mendes' 'Net Point' Connectivity Concept Doesn't Include the Phone
4
Mobile Phone Booths
Mobile Design Shaped To Look Like Britain's Iconic Red Booth
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Predatory Phone Booths
Russian Street Artist Gives Public Payphones the 'Jaws' Touch
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4 Funky Phone Booth Installations
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Creative Failures
The Telephone Tree
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