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In an age when anti-advertising has gone mainstream, it's not surprising to find creatives like Seattle-based designer-provocateur Shawn Wolfe who have made a career of redefining commercial art.
Wolfe (aka Beatkit) creates convincingly adlike images that sell nothing more than paranoia and skepticism. The street posters, T-shirt designs, Negativland album covers, andRaygun spreads in this compendium form a particularly ambivalent modern aesthetic. Wolfe's work combines elements of Dada, computer-generated club graphics, and many, many registered trademarks. He even weaves the language of branding into a sexy comic narrative. "Your price point is perfect ... I love you" coos a machine-headed lackey to a nude female.
The amorphous brand name Beatkit may not be as iconic as Shepard Fairey's Andre the Giant, but Wolfe's widget-enhanced, propagandistic call to "Panic Now" is something you'll want to buy into.
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I Am Not Just a Camera
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French in Action
Watch My Shorts
The Blast Shall Come First
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The Wink-Wink Factoid Conspiracy
Show Your Faces at the Door
Lost and Found
Just Outta Beta
Consuming Images
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