Ipod - Iraq
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True strabley. The poster is whatever u want it to be. Thats why i mentioned Andy Warhol.
I hate intellectualsing "quirky" posters like this, but anyway. It's like what pop-art did - it took media saturated imagery that had become iconic and decontexualised them. So that our instinct to think "consumption" is challenged. Our consumption of advertising (iPod) and our consumption of the news media (incessant broadcasts of the torture pictures to sell newspapers) is placed in the same context and shown to us as one chaotic mass of pop-culture. The artist/designer has to do nothing else. The juxtaposition itself instantly politicises desensitised, media saturated, images. I thught graphic designers wud understand the power of images. Sagmeister has made a career out of it. But then i think some people (like abizzyman up there) would prefer to see pictures of American soldiers, looking like warrior Gods, raising the stars and stripes ontop the ruins of Saddams Palace. But in the words of Ice-T, "Shit aint like that. Shit's fucked up!"