Anatomy of Design

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Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s minister of propaganda and enlightenment,

who along with his wife, Magda, committed suicide after poisoning their six

children in Adolf Hilter’s bunker as Soviet troops besieged Berlin, was the

master of word and image manipulation. Joseph Goebbels™ is an art project in

the form of a commercial advertising campaign that addresses the nature of

media and mass communication at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

“Sixty years after Goebbels,” states author/designer Aleksandar Macasev, “we

find ourselves in a highly developed infosphere—the Internet, twenty-four-hour

news, direct broadcasting, countless nonstop radio, ...