A detailed study of the creative ambitions, social and technological constraints behind the evolution of punk and post-punk graphic styles.
Turning revolt into style: The process and practice of punk graphic designis a comprehensive analysis of punk aesthetics and the subculture’s key watchwords of do-it-yourself, autonomy, and authenticity in relation to the professional practices and technological conventions of the graphic design and print industries in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Introduction
1 Pretty vacant: Punk graphic themes
2 Material interventions: Punk graphic processes
3 Design it yourself: The punk diaspora
4 Your generation: Punk designers and the art departments
5 New sounds, new styles: Design and technology
6 A different kind of tension: Industry and the individual
7 Parallel lines: Into the eighties
8 Retro-spective: Influence and legacy
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Russ Bestley is Reader in Graphic Design & Subcultures at London College of Communication -- .
