Defrost Studio
Metropolis M
2025
KIOSK asked Defrost Studio to fill this year's advertising space in the magazine Metropolis M.
About the ads
"This series of fake advertisements explores pressing global issues through a satirical lens. Each ad uses the language of commercial marketing to critique and expose societal challenges, such as censorship, political manipulation, environmental crises, and technological overreach. By blending striking visuals with thought-provoking messages, the project invites readers to question the narratives they consume and reflect on the broader implications of media in shaping public consciousness. These ads aim to provoke discussion and encourage critical engagement with the world around us."
Defrost Studio
About Defrost Studio
Maria Ghetti is a Creative Strategist and Art Director based in Amsterdam. From 2019 to 2021 she covered the role of managing editor of GUP Magazine’s talent platforms. Together with that she has also been the creative strategist for GUP Magazine, assisting the magazine’s many platforms online and offline. In 2016, together with Marco Tiberio she co-founded Defrost Studio, a creative agency focused on photography and storytelling. Currently Maria works as a freelance consultant for creative and cultural businesses.
Marco Tiberio is a typological photographer and visual designer based in Amsterdam. His main field of interest is to understand how human beings react to the changes in society and how they interact with it and the world they live in. Through photography he wants to find new ways of investigating topics in order to make them more accessible to a broader public and give them new interpretations.Marco started Index Tiberii, a photography archive about Europe and its cultural heritage with the goal of integrating that shared cultural heritage via keeping memory of the social challenges Europe has been facing. He aims to achieve this through a combination of historical projects based on archives and new ones.
