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Turning revolt into style

The process and practice of punk graphic design

By Russ Bestley

Turning revolt into style
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  • ISBN: 9781526151322
  • Publish Date: Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    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.

    Contents

    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

    Turning revolt into style

    By Russ Bestley

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