Adbusters Post-War

Adbusters Magazine:

• Independent anti-establishment magazine, published for £10.99 six times a year, the readership according to their website consisting of 120,000 people, lending itself to be quite a niche publishment rather than anything mainstream, subtitled the 'Journal of the mental environment.'

• This cover holds a simplistic and uncluttered layout with it's text being unconventionally centered unlike other magazines, causing it to be disruptive and subversive of the hegemonic expectations of a magazine cover, the black borders form a frame for the photo and provide negative space to put further focus upon the headline and title of the magazine.
• The facial expression of the model communicates an animalistic rage while his body language with his clenched fist conveys violence, this is furthered by the attire of a camouflage flak-jacket upon the model which is and always will be thematically related to war.
• The headline 'POST- WAR' anchored with the grunge overlayed imagery of the implied soldier connotes to the middle east being left in a worse state than when the West entered it with the supposed intention of being peacekeepers, it is clear in it's message of not perpetuating the dominant ideologies of the West.
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