Apr 28, 2014
J.G. Ballard: conceptual advertising (1967-70)
"From 1967 to 1970, the British author J.G. Ballard published a series of disturbing conceptual ads in several periodicals at his own expense... His motivation wasn’t to criticize the medium, even though this is an implicit side effect, but to use it as a delivery system for disseminating personal, writerly intimations of unease about the violence of the time and its media representations." For a recent essay by design historian Rick Poynor on these erotic 'design fictions', published by Design Observer, see here.