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Turning revolt into style
The process and practice of punk graphic design
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Russ Bestley
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Russ Bestley is Reader in Graphic Design & Subcultures at London College of Communication
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'Russ Bestley is someone who knows more – and has written more – over the last thirty years about punk, graphic design, and popular culture than Monsieur Mangetout has had odd dinners. In his latest book – Turning Revolt Into Style – he addresses two key questions: how did a generation of young, punk-inspired graphic designers navigate the profession; and how did significant changes in printing technology, labour relations and working practices in the design profession impact their work?
His aim, therefore, is to situate punk’s visual aesthetic both within cultural history and the technological, professional, and political contexts that materially shaped it. I’m pleased to say that he achieves this, producing a highly useful punk graphic design historiography in the process.'
Stephen Alexander, International Times
His aim, therefore, is to situate punk’s visual aesthetic both within cultural history and the technological, professional, and political contexts that materially shaped it. I’m pleased to say that he achieves this, producing a highly useful punk graphic design historiography in the process.'
Stephen Alexander, International Times
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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of figures
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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1 Pretty vacant
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3 Design it yourself
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4 Your generation
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5 New sounds, new styles
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7 Parallel lines
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8 Retro-spective
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Bibliography
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 2, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781526151339
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eBook ISBN:
9781526151339
Keywords for this book
Music graphics; do-it-yourself; print industry; unions; post-punk; print technology; photomechanical reproduction; design profession; fanzines; vinyl records
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
