The Rising Waters of the Yangtze
Yangtze – The Long River by Nadav Kander Nadav Kander: Yangtze – The Long River is available as a book. Other recommendations can be found in our online bookshop.
Banning the ‘Amateurish’ American Apparel Ads
This American Apparel ad, alongside several other similarly suggestive ads from their website, has recently been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority ASA in the United Kingdom. In this blog post I am not arguing whether or not this ban is justified, but rather, I want to analyse the reasons for the ban itself. In…
Death of an iCon
The iconic iPhone. The iconic iPod. The iconic Steve Jobs. Rarely has the perception of an individual been so synonymous with the perception of a line of products, commodities, material objects. In this blog post I want to explore how this slippage between individual and object is largely due to how both are presented to…