Kalle Lasn in Tallinn, Estonia in 1942 and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He established Adbusters Media Foundation and Powershift Advertising Agency to fight for the rights of citizens and activists to access the public airwaves. In his first book, Culture Jam, Lasn lists facts about big business and describes what he calls the "meme" war; a war of subconscious writing of brand names to control the mass media. The book contains images of modern society and an insight into Western culture's origins. His second book, Design Anarchy, calls on graphic designers, illustrators and other creative professionals to turn from working in service to corporate and political pollution of both the planet and "the mental environment," and instead embrace a radical new aesthetic devoted to social and environmental responsibility.

The Design Anarchist’s Bible
By Laurel Saville

Kalle Lasn creates another publication soapbox with his book Design Anarchy; again calling on designers
to change the world by changing themselves & the way they work.

Step Inside Design, November/December 2007

Design Anarchy is Kalle Lasn’s barbaric yawp over the roofs of the design world. Part personal scrapbook of all things that have infuriated him over the years, part political, psycological and ecological polemic, the book is a manifesto on how the merger of design and commerce is eviscerating the spontaneous, individual, creative, healthy, happpy messy soul of our world and replacing it with nothing more than a consumption-driven pseudo-culture. READ MORE.