Punk

Punk started in the 1970s. One could say that it blew up in Britain. It was a youth rebellion because of the economic, political and social turbulence the UK was experiencing at the time. Punk was a post modernist movement, going against the rigid restrictions of modernism. It was a new eye opening beginning for music, fashion, and design.

From this countercultural movement we come into view with posters, fanzines, flyers, clothes and other visuals.When it came to the fashion, clothes were ripped cut, torn, written on with marker and paint and as accessories, razor blades. 

When it came to graphic design, we see the influence of punk in magazines quite a lot. There was the new Fanzine craze. Magazines created by the fans for the fans. It was a very DIY process and all one needed was photographs, recycled pictures and type, scissors, glue and a marker. To make one of these fanzines not much skill was needed. In fact loads of fans were going crazy making their own fanzines for fans who were as hooked as they were on the punk era. 

When examining punk, you can tell that it has taken inspiration from several different previous movements. Unlike constructivism it didn't have geometric shapes, order and a grid to follow. It's whole DIY appoach was one of it's main characteristic. The DIY technique makes it rustic and rough showing it's cheap low quality.  

‘God Save the Queen’ album artwork by the Sex Pistols

A magazine of great popularity at that time was 'Sniffin' Glue' by Mark Perry - a magazine which was never proof read and was a a compilation of fan's works. It came out every month but was not very long lived. It infact only came out for 1 year.

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