Ad busters

Radical,  shocking and moving

march 2015 - april 2016 
-25 April – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Nepal and causes 8,857 deaths in Nepal

7 May – the 2015 UK General Election results in the first Conservative majority government in 18 years.

11 September – Queen Elizabeth II, having been on the throne for 63 years, 217 days, became the longest-reigning British monarch in history and the longest-serving head of state of any nation in modern history, surpassing Queen Victoria who had reigned for 63 years, 216 days upon her death on 22 January 1901.

3 October – A United States airstrike on a Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) hospital in Afghanistan kills an estimated 20 people.

2016
march 21- Barack Obama visits Cuba, marking the first time a sitting US president has visited the island nation since president Calvin Coolidge visited in 1928

April 3 – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publish a set of 11.5 million confidential documents from the Panamanian corporate Mossack Fonseca that provides detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors including noted personalities and heads of state.


genre - abstract, political, possibly even informational  - though it does not have solid informational articles it includes facts and data for the reader to put together themselves

adbusters encourages people to lead an alternative lifestyle by showing just how harmful that conservative and governmentality lifestyles can be : war in the middle east, government officials/potential presidents and their viewpoints


adbusters.org

-articles, more than in the magazines themselves
alongside articles they do other types of media - videos, podcasts etc
-shop - for subscribing, both digital and physical issues - no clear price tag
- page with mock up posters











brand identity differs from the magazine - it is all centre aligned while some in the magazine are offset and wonky

consistent typeface - serif font

much more information shared about themselves rather than the subjects within the magazine

not as colourful as magazine counterpart

many differences between the two - but kept consistent with the same logo.

 


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