Adbusters Media Foundation (Canada)

Adbusters Magazine is a bi-monthly ‘journal of the mental environment’ and the central publication of a global collective of writers, artists, designers, musicians, poets, philosophers and punks.

In their own words, since 1989 the Adbusters team have been: 

‘Smashing ads, fighting corruption and speaking truth to power. We’re trying to forge a new way of living, create a whole new cultural vibe to escape the capitalist paradigm and halt humanity’s slide into a 10,000- year dark age.’

 The collective have been at the forefront of popular actions designed to raise profound questions about the grip of capitalism and its media complex, from the annual ‘Buy Nothing Day’ protests to ‘Occupy Wall Street.’ 

Editor-in-chief, Kalle Lasn, is the bestselling author of Culture Jam (1999), Design Anarchy (2006) and Meme Wars (2012). His video ‘Mindbombs’ typifies the high impact visuals combined with radical critique: https://www.adbusters.org/podcast/hummingbird Born in Estonia during World War II, he lived in a displaced persons camp before gaining refuge in Australia. 

Adbusters are best known for their spoof advertisements and ‘culture hacks’ designed to subvert dominant advertising and corporate memes from within [using some of the cleverest designers and subvertisers in the world].