The designer behind the Trump baby balloon wanted to give the president a taste of his own medicine The Trump Baby balloon first took flight last month in London during President Trump’s visit to the UK and now, the 20-foot-tall blimp depicting an orange, angry president in diapers will tour Australia for Trump’s visit...
Vuk Ćosić is a Slovenian contemporary artist associated with the net. art movement commemorates the Jews murdered during the Holocaust in Ljubljana. The project is called “Undeleted” uses photos of residents of the Slovenian capital that have been reconstituted as concrete poetics with Hebrew letter forms. He created their faces by combining faces with...
Last Thursday an animated video version of Graham Nash’s Crosby Stills Nash & Young hit song ‘Teach Your Children’ was published on the The Atlantic website. Using his signature style of sketchily painting over photographs, Jeff Scher used charged images of of 60s grassroots protest for civil rights and constitutional freedoms to recent protests...
“In view of the current political and social situation,” writes Dr. Helmut Müller, Managing Director of the Bemeinnützige Kulturfonds in Frankfurt RheinMain, Germany, in the unforgettable, sadly retro-prophetic art history titled “Splendor and Misery in the Weimar Republic” (Hirmer), “in which the world seems to have lost its bearings, we should be particularly grateful...
EARLY BIRD DEADLINE: AUGUST 13 Jeff Gates, a graphic designer and writer, for the past eight years he has been remixing old propaganda posters with new text and altered imagery attacking the sorry state of American political discourse. He does this under the guise of the Chamomile Tea Party. Google Arts & Culture has...
George Bernard Shaw's 1939 satiric play "Geneva" (illustrated by Feliks Topolski) takes place in a court case designed to decry European dictators
Trump infects the body politic's mind to such a degree that now we even have a typeface in his image. Meet Trump Grotesk by John Foster & Gary Cunliffe.
Excelsior was originally a popular movie magazine that published in Milan in Madrid from 1927 to 1937. Heller takes a look at a special issue that broke…
If you saw a swastika on a book, magazine or flyer what would you do? What about the images here? What comes to mind? How do you respond?
The techniques of disruption are not new to the Putin and Trump regimes. Soviet propaganda of the postwar years turned its media towards the war weary German’s to persuade the majority in the Western sector to favor the East in the hot-cold war that was simmering between Western and Soviet powers. “Their main purpose...
