inform my design.
- Publication / Periodical of satirical/Against the establishment news reports (Possibly all completely ridiculous and irrelevant news headlines) Look at Sunday Sport, The Onion, Daily Mash and News Thump.
'Design Anarchy' - Kalle Lasn
This radical new aesthetic vision from the founder of Ad busters Magazine looks unflinchingly at contemporary art and graphic design and implicates their seemingly innocuous practitioners in crimes against our culture and our planet. Design Anarchy pioneers a hybrid graphic/text language that is by turns intimate, anarchic, abstract and accusatory, to explore the responsibility of the visual designer and artist in the pollution and redemption of our mental and physical commons. It makes an urgent call for artists, graphic and industrial designers and architects to reengage with the world, and it includes work from some who have already heard that call: Jeff Wall, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ryan McGinley, Gregory Crewdson and Barbara Kruger. Kalle Lasn is the founder of Adbusmedia foundation, such as Buy Nothing Day and TV Turnoff Week, and has pioneered the spoof ads, billboard liberations and TV mind-melters featured here.
'Oh So Pretty. Punk In Print.' - Toby Mott
A Visual guide to the punk movements from 1976 to 1980, looking at periodicals, posters and artwork from the time of anarchy and anti-establishment fuelled sub-culture which stormed the nation. It presents 500 artefacts - 'zines,' gig posters, flyers, and badges - from well-known and obscure musical acts, designers, venues, and related political groups. While punk was first and foremost a music phenomenon, it reflected a DIY spirit and instantly recognisable aesthetic that was as raw and strident and irrepressible as the music. As disposable as the items in this book once were, together they tell a story about music, history, class, and art, and document a seismic shift in society and visual culture.
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