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Red Flags<\/em><\/strong> is a visual field guide to modern behavior — part satire, part mirror, and part survival manual. Created by Belgian designer and visual storyteller Bart Kiggen, the book unpacks the characters, archetypes, and micro-cultures that shape our digital and emotional lives. From the Ghoster to the Apex Pretender, from the Brand Messiah to the Yuppie Mephistopheles, each red flag is drawn, described, and decoded with wit and precision. Blending staged photography, cultural critique, and design, Red Flags<\/em><\/strong> turns online performance into visual anthropology. It examines how attention became identity and how charisma, care, or confidence can all tip into manipulation.<\/p>\n

Each portrait is both absurd and familiar, reminding us that the red flags we recognize in others often reflect our own. In this carefully composed and conceptually sharp book, Bart Kiggen uses imagery, humor, and typography to explore the psychology of the age of exposure. Red Flags<\/em><\/strong> invites readers to look closer, laugh more softly, and perhaps notice a few signals in themselves before it’s too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Red Flags is a sharp visual guide to modern behavior, blending satire, photography, and design to decode digital archetypes we recognize, fear, and embody ourselves.
The Branding Messiah 13
\nCaptain Power-Thru 15
\nChief Air Officer 17
\nThe Scope Creep 19
\nThe Purity Tester 21
\nThe Feedback Deflector 23
\nThe Seagull Manager 25
\nThe Paper Tiger 27
\nThe Ghoster 31
\nThe Main Character 33
\nThe Energy Vampire 35
\nThe Drama King 37
\nThe Love Bomber 39
\nThe Enlightened Centrist 41
\nThe Lurker 43
\nThe Conspiritualist 45
\nThe Beige Mom 47
\nThe Armchair Expert 49
\nThe Rage Baiter 51
\nThe Undecided Voter 55
\nThe Podcast Bro 57
\nThe TikTok Therapist 61
\nThe Shit Poster 63
\nThe Micro Manager 65
\nThe AI-stocrat 67
\nThe Horoscope Hoarder 69
\nThe Hashtag Activist 71
\nThe Life Auditor 75
\nThe Apologist 77
\nThe CC Sniper 81
\nThe Rug Puller 83
\nThe Labelist 85
\nThe Truth Muddler 89
\nThe Anti-Vax Cult Leader 91
\nThe Threads Televangelist 93
\nShrinkflation 97
\nPlanned Obsolescence 99
\nThe Nostalgia K-Hole 101
\nSanewashing 105
\nThe Wellness Industrial
\nComplex 107
\nPerformative Nationalism 109
\nThe Grievance Grift 113
\nClicktatorship 115
\nCultural Colonialism 117
\nCry-Bullying 119
\nThe Grift-to-Glory Cycle 121
\nFauxtism 123
\nThe Familiarity Machine 127
\nEnshittification 129
\nThe Attention Economy 131
\nBothsides Bullshit 133
\nBettingfication 135
\nThe Slopagenda 137
\nThe Race to the Bottom 141
\nAstroturfing 143
\nSecurity Theatre 145
\nThe Memory Hole 147
\nDebate Battle Royale 149
\nThe Social Media Mirage 151
\nDog-Whistling 155
\nManagement
\nConsultification 157
\nSausagefication 159
\nSportswashing 161
\nVaporware 163
\nVice Signalling 165
\nThe Author Without a Clue 169
\nSources 170<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":73107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[16737,21582,21584],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-71328","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-gift-stationery","product_cat-reference","product_cat-sport-recreation","author-by-author-bart-kiggen","publisher-luster-publishing","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRed Flags - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/red-flags\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Red Flags - 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