Top: Subvertising & Misalanious

Article, Oxford, UK, 2001 Corporate Watch (UK) Full Editorial Control? A cautionary tale from media Babylon

A couple of months ago Bristol based video activists, i-Contact video network were approached by WarkClements (a Glasgow based production company headed by BBC 'Newsnight' supremo Kirsty Wark) to contribute a 3.5-minute film on the subject of subvertising. They were looking for 'anarchic' content for an alternative news pilot show called 'a...

Art/Graphics, UK, 1999 Lost&Found Medium Big Anti-Copyright (White Background)

Anti-Copyright means use freely for whatever you want, and comes from the perspective that copyright should not exist at all or that there is no need to copyright the information/image as you wish it to be distributed freely and reused. There is probably a better definition of this somewhere and if someone has one please let me know.

Art/Graphics, UK, 1999 Lost&Found Medium Big CopyLeft (White Background)

CopyLeft means copyright except for non-profit making initiatives/organizations where the it is used to positively portray what it sat out to do. If you are not sure what it originally set out to do you must ask its creator. This means that you can use the (graphics, article etc.) If you are not making money out or it and do not have the intention ...

Poster/Postcard, Canada, 1999 Adbusters Medium Big Stay away from corporations...

'Stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them' Billboard design on display outside recent conference of US graphic designers. A well targeted work raising awareness of the corporate hold on a nation's creativity, this poster leads to the revitalized "First things First" manifesto for 'concerned' artists.

Article, Oxford, UK Corporate Watch (UK) What's Wrong With Advertising

'Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life.,'C. Lasch (1978) 'The Culture of Narcissism: American life in an age of diminishing expectations.'

Subvert, USA Billboard Liberation Front Medium False Advertising

Washing powder soap box with 'False Advertising, A Gallery of Parody'

Art/Graphics, Canada Adbusters Medium Culture Jam-the Uncooling of America TM

Book cover from Adbusters co-founder Kalle Lasn. Excellent book on subvertising.

Subvert, 1999 Adbusters First Things First Manifesto 2000

Last fall, Adbusters and six design magazines printed First Things First 2000. An updated version of a 1964 declaration, FTF 2000 states that too much design energy is being spent to promote pointless consumerism, and too little to helping people understand an increasingly complex and fragile world. It was signed by 33 high-profile designers, and h...

Article Billboard Liberation Front Art & Science of Billboard Improvement a comprehensive guide to the alteration of outdoor advertising

In the beginning was the Ad. The Ad was brought to the consumer by the Advertiser. Desire, self worth, self image, ambition, hope; all find their genesis in the Ad. Through the Ad and the intent of the Advertiser we form our ideas and learn the myths that make us into what we are as a people.

Article Smashing The Image Factory A Complete Manual of Billboard Subversion & Destruction

Destruction of any of the States ideological weapons of control will always be a rewarding experience. Most times it may be you dont need any more than a tin of paint, a little humour and a quiet night to turn a multinationals expensive advertising hoarding into your own guerrilla tapestry.

Article Sam Williams The Media is the Message Subvertising on TV screens in Tube/Underground Trains

Suddenly, a gust of wind indicates an imminent arrival. The crowd looks up to the monitors in unison, checking the train's destination. The Channel 7 ad then switches over to the characteristic lettering of a BART destination message -- only it reads, 'Capitalism Stops at Nothing.'

Art/Graphics, UK, 1999 Lost&Found Medium Big Anti-Copyright (Black Background)

Anti-Copyright means use freely for whatever you want, and comes from the perspective that copyright should not exist at all or that there is no need to copyright the information/image as you wish it to be distributed freely and reused. There is probably a better definition of this somewhere and if someone has one please let me know.

Art/Graphics, UK, 1999 Lost&Found Medium Big CopyLeft (Black Background)

CopyLeft means copyright except for non-profit making initiatives/organizations where the it is used to positively portray what it sat out to do. If you are not sure what it originally set out to do you must ask its creator. This means that you can use the (graphics, article etc.) If you are not making money out or it and do not have the intention ...

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