Media Studies

 "I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public."   
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
-Aldous Huxley

Maslow's Hierarchy of needs

Advertising approaches

Sample ads to dissect

The "anti- ad"

Design elements of ads.

Design element challenge

"We've spent the decade letting our tech define us. It's out of control" by Douglas Rushkoff.

"Killing us Softly 3" by Dr. Jean Kilbourne

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Manufacturing Consent

by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky:

Chapter 1.

 

"Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                -Marshall McLuhan

 

 

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