Wired Magazine has acquired a new design, replete with graffiti art by Pilgrim on the cover. The cover design to the January 2012 issue is quite a departure from the other mags on the rack. The use of negative space is quite nicely balanced to create overall unity. However, the ads inside the magazine really create an oxymoron to the #riot ideology. Between the full page ads for luxury cars, liquor, designer watches and computers, is a poignant article about social media propelling recent political riots. If I buy a bottle of The Glenlivet and a Range Rover, would I be contributing to the hashtag riots? There's several connotated meanings here between the ads. Just as my old pal Roland Barthes covered in his article "Rhetoric of the Image." What are these ads really saying?
1 comments:
What have they done to my beloved WIRED?!
Can't believe that a graphic designer would be allowed to trash this magazine. Crowded design plus no letter from readers is a big mistake.
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