Reactive Graphics

by Adbusters, Hula Hula

Widespread generic phenomena such as wealth and poverty, power and marginality, globalization and anti-globalization, lie at the root of the languages and codes with which graphic designers must visually communicate--however obligingly or not. Reactive Graphics , the third Laus forum, analyzes this system of signs, recognizing the graphic designer's capacity for interpreting and recodifying those features which make up our environment. Taking stock of the opportunities for dissidence versus those for obedience, Reactive Graphics evaluates work by Adbusters, Hula Hula, Sensacional, Fakir, Nortec Collective, Oscar Reyes and Bésame mucho. Mexico, the "host" country for this volume in the Laus! series, provides a fertile cultural, political and economic land in which to conduct this graphic Notably independent, it exists as both a virtual and literal frontier between north and south, as well as extremes of having and having-not. Edited by Ramon Prat., Flexi-bound, 6.25 x 9.5 in./420 pgs / 350 color 0 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20237

Paperback

Published December 1, 2003

About the author

The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. Adbusters describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."

Characterized by some as anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism, it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine with an international circulation of 120,000 devoted to challenging consumerism. Past and present contributors to the magazine include Christopher Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Bill McKibben, Jim Munroe, Douglas Rushkoff, Jonathan Barnbrook, David Graeber, Simon Critchley, Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt, David Orrell and others.

Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including Buy Nothing Day, TV Turnoff Week and Occupy Wall Street, and is known for their "subvertisements" that spoof popular advertisements. In English, Adbusters has bi-monthly American, Canadian, Australian, UK and International editions of each issue. Adbusters's sister organizations include Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire and Casseurs de Pub in France, Adbusters Norge in Norway, Adbusters Sverige in Sweden and Culture Jammers in Japan.

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