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(More customer reviews)Cynical artists disgrunted with society are certainly readers of Kalle Lasn's Adbuster magazines. They might have turned to buy this "Design Anarchy" design guide.
I found the provocative visual slideshow created by each page turn strong in message, but the bravado and ego in Kalle Lasn shows through by him stating that design anarchy, a term for a movement that he coined, is the next movement listed among art and design movements such as Bauhaus, Arts and Crafts Movement, and Post-Modernism. Anti-ads have been around for quite a while. Mad Magazine, which was going strong in the 1950's, is just one example of modern culture parody.
If you are a true anarchist, why do you want a given label such as that? Shouldn't you be just...doing...making noise, anti-art, protests, etc.?
Why not put together a book made of, say, stolen Prozac notepads from your local hospital? In all fairness, he preaches this kind of action, and probably on some level his book inspired me to think of this.
As another reviewer stated, if you look on the last page, you will see that the book is Printed in China. Mr. Lasn looked to find cheap labor to make the most money on this publication, with greedy business savvy just like a large corporation he loves to criticise.
Ah, the seduction of money. Now I'm really cynical.
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This radical new aesthetic vision from the founder of Adbusters Magazine looks unflinchingly at contemporary art and graphic design and implicates their seemingly innocuous practitioners in crimes against our culture and our planet. Design Anarchy pioneers a hybrid graphic/text language that is by turns intimate, anarchic, abstract and accusatory, to explore the responsibility of the visual designer and artist in the pollution and redemption of our mental and physical commons. It makes an urgent call for artists, graphic and industrial designers and architects to reengage with the world. And it includes work from some who have already heard that call: Jeff Wall, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ryan McGinley, Gregory Crewdson and Barbara Kruger. Kalle Lasn is the founder of Adbusters Media Foundation, and as its head has launched international social marketing campaigns such as Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week, and has pioneered the spoof ads, billboard liberations and TV mind-melters featured here. In the battle for a new kind of meaning, Design Anarchy is a 400 page mind bomb without precedent.
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