Talk about "visual junk." If your notion of Dada is no more than a Duchamp urinal then please click on over to UbuWeb (with your French-English dictionary) and peruse their Dada Magazine archive. Founded by Tristan Tzara in an attempt to broaden the reach of Dada's core ideas throughout Europe, Dada (the magazine) published works of art, prose and poetry and survives as a wonderful example of early DIY subculture publishing both in content and form. Of the three issues available online, Dada 3, published in December of 1918, is the most striking of the titles sporting some innovative page layouts and a terrific cover design (inset). Notable contributors over the years included Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Delaunay, and Wassily Kandinsky just to name a few.

Labels: Art, culture-jammer, Dada, Drawing, Duchamp, ephemera, graphic design, Kandinsky, self-publishing

This is good stuff. If you're as annoyed as I am at those stupid "Let it out" ads, check out what the jammers at Greenpeace's Kleercut site are doing to spoil Kimberly-Clark's tear-jerking, pseudo-sentimental TV spots and get the message out that Kleenex Tissues are made with "100 per cent virgin fibre and contains no recycled fibre." Well, what they don't say is that this virgin fibre comes from clear-cutting ancient forest including North America's Boreal forest.

Labels: boycott, criminals, culture-jammer, environment, Greenpeace, logo parodies