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Punk became a visual system built for reproduction and circulation. This episode explores how its graphic language evolved into a shared tool for dissent. Record sleeves, posters, fanzines, typography, collage, and appropriated imagery created a visual vocabulary that could be copied, altered, and circulated far beyond its original context, and authorship became less important than transmission.
FEATURING: Russ Bestley of the Punk Scholars Network; Andrew Krivine, collector and author of Torn Apart; and graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook.
Together, they explore DIY culture, the relationship between music and graphics, the disruption of established symbols, design as a political act, and why asking “why?” may be the most important thing a designer can do. Voices of Protest, Season 2 of Destroy! The Influence of Punk reframes punk through its visual logic and asks how a language born from disruption became a tool for protest across borders, movements, and institutions.
With contributions from Peter Saville, Malcolm Garrett, Red Saunders, Terry Jones, and Steve Ignorant. Archive excerpts include Vaughan Oliver, Malcolm McLaren, Jamie Reid, John Lydon, Mark Perry, Brass Tacks, and The Great Rock-n-Roll Swindle.
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