Culture jamming

A preview of what the next wave of anti-corporate activism might look like. Call it Big Dada: speaking noise to power.

This is an example of cultural jamming. The designer of this ad used the Nike logo and symbol "Just Do It" with the backdrop of a child laborer. This ad is making a commentary on how many companies such as Nike use underpaid foreign laborers and children to make their products.

As the first piece in his new monthly Mini Billboards Series release, artist Ron English (previously) took a satirical poke at the tobacco industry with

Barbara Kruger weighs in on consumer culture on a recent New York Times editorial page.

Street artists are targeting advertising billboards in a new movement nicknamed 'brandalism'

Advertising is a part of our daily lives, it sullies our streets and seeps into our homes, manipulating, pressuring and even destructing; peddling debt...

McGarbage

anti consumerism poster

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"Pop culture, populist views and trends, mass marketing in western societies appeals to the "herd instinct", the Status Quo, the bourgeois and those who feel they need to fit in with the latest trend, fashion and widget of societal norm. Those who do not "fit in" tend to be viewed as "outsiders" and are prone to being labeled as outcasts." Colin Wilson‎ - Hehe, although we outsiders don't fit in to mainstream middle class society we have a unique perspective of society and as such are above…

American Depress Card by Ron English

There hasn't been a newborn baby in my home for a while. My son, Ben, turned 15 last May. While feeding a teenager healthy, unprocessed food has its own host

"Sugar Frosted Fat" 2012©Shifty

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Black Friday sales promote overconsumption that impacts our earth. Learn how to participate in Buy Nothing Day and push back against throw-away culture.

Softcover catalogue of the exhibition, 'Barbara Kruger: We Won’t Play Nature to Your Culture' (1983). Courtesy Thomas Erben Gallery.

Born in a small city in Finland, Riikka now lives and works as an illustrator in Berlin, Germany, where she also earned her Masters in Illustration at the Berlin University of Arts. She is a member of the German illustration collective »Parallel Universe« and publishes her own zines and books in small editions.