Tuesday, January 24, 2006

"A message repeated a thousand times becomes the truth"



Propagandizing Propaganda an interview with Aleksandar Macasev by Steven Heller.

The Joseph Goebbels(TM) project, the brainchild of Aleksandar Macasev, is a multimedia attack on the information and disinformation glut that uses the infamous Nazi minister of propaganda and enlightenment.

Macasev had been researching the nature of mass communication and contemporary media culture as he had worked for a number of advertising agencies, Macasev reached the conclusion that "the truth has become totally irrelevant in the present state of mass-media culture".

More information on Macasev's work can be found on Black Pixel.

Heller's most recent book is "Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century" (Phaidon Press) and "The Education of a Comics Artist" co-edited with Michael Dooley (Allworth Press). His current books are "The Education of a Graphic Designer"and (with Veronique Vienner) "The Education of an Art Director" (Allworth Press).

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