Spread | Punk Era

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PUNK ERA: ANYTHING BUT AMBIGUOUS

This is a school project. I was given an assignment to choose a historical period and study the graphic design of the time. I chose Punk Era since it is a special and mysterious period to me.

"Although punk graphic artworks have received less attention compared with music and fashion, it is still an important stage in the history of graphic design. There are lots of studies about punk and post-punk even today. There are many events in the history are seen as the precursors such as Dadaist collage, the Situationist International, the mail art movement, the graphics of counter-culture protest, and the 1960s underground press. Punk graphics communicate the explosive energy and ”messthetic” rawness of punk culture by making collages, cartoon drawings hand-lettering, rub-down lettering, ransom-note lettering, stencils, rubber stamping, and black and white Xerox copying, as well as silkscreen and offset litho (Poynors, 2016). "

An interesting fact about the project: when I designed the spread, I was at the very beginning stage of my graphic designing life. I wasn't really sure how to use swatch and on InDesign properly, so I decided to go with the preset RGB colors. So the colors that appear on the spread are literally just RGB Magenta, RGB Yellow, and Black.