zoebarker: Heeeerrrre we go. New illustration for October issue of Creative Review. It’s for an article written by Gordon Comstock, ‘Riots and responsibility; guilt touches an icy adman’s heart,’ a pretty amazing read on the role advertising played in the London riots…“But let us be clear: we are in the business of encouraging people to want things. Branding is designed to direct their desire toward specific objects: Nike not Adidas, Apple not Nokia, etc. The dogma that we’re peddling is that the only thing that will make you happy is getting precisely what you want…Seen in this light the riots do have a political aspect. The left-wing thinker, Slavoj Zizek,points out their “moment of protest, an ironic response to the consumerist ideology ‘You call on us to consume, while simultaneously depriving us of the means to do it – so here we are doing it, the only way we can.’” I hear on the electronic grape vine that it’s on page 74.

zoebarker:

Heeeerrrre we go. New illustration for October issue of Creative Review. It’s for an article written by Gordon Comstock, ‘Riots and responsibility; guilt touches an icy adman’s heart,’ a pretty amazing read on the role advertising played in the London riots…

“But let us be clear: we are in the business of encouraging people to want things. Branding is designed to direct their desire toward specific objects: Nike not Adidas, Apple not Nokia, etc. The dogma that we’re peddling is that the only thing that will make you happy is getting precisely what you want…

Seen in this light the riots do have a political aspect. The left-wing thinker, Slavoj Zizek,
points out their “moment of protest, an ironic response to the consumerist ideology ‘You call on us to consume, while simultaneously depriving us of the means to do it – so here we are doing it, the only way we can.’”

I hear on the electronic grape vine that it’s on page 74.

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