Adbusters
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- slag_you_off
I used to be a major fan.
I picked up the mag yesterday and had a look at the website, but they have just become so aggressive.
They used to have neat ideas and promote good conversation about design and it's role in the world.
Now it's 'how can designer's live with themselves?' kinda crap.
I'm not a Bush fan at all, but they way they poke fun just seems so base like this piece
http://www.adbusters.org/jams/hi…
talking about every war that ever was was un-necessary.
They just seem to have become the voice for kids who wear ski masks and smash up McDonalds, not the conscience of designers, making them think twice about acvertising cigarettes...
anyway decide for yourself.
- fishzipper0
I don't know man. I like that shit. A little history lesson never hurt you.
- andre_andreev0
It’s great that they are putting this anti-establishment mentality for young people. However do they do it successfully? That may be another question... I've found real news mags like The Nation or real reportage mags like Colors much more convincing and educational.
- zedvox0
i agree with you slag
i find myself thinking the same thing.
too bad adbusters
- rasko40
yeah I stopped buying adbusters a while ago, I still flick through every now and then, seems like they are a) short on 'real' ideas and b) lazy on research in favour of some pseudo-shock tactic, and actually, they way in which they work and promote their 'way' is seemingly in parallel with a consumerist attitude, they seem perhaps unwittingly to advocate a designer/fashionably aware version of anti-consumerism which is obviously not anti at all but merely fashionable.