Punks very own fanzine

 

The 70s was an interesting age of rebellion within the youth subculture. The world had just had the hippy boom in the 60s, and punk was in a way a rebellion against that. Punk was all about personal expressing and ‘sticking it up to the man’. The punk style spread from music to clothing, to mentality and also to graphic design with a large impact. 

Punks had a do it your self mentality, which was visually obvious. Punk typography for example had the ransom not effect, and the news paper cuttings feel. It was a visually rebellious style. What I find the most interesting about this era of graphic design was the fact that the fans themselves, most having no history with graphic design were creating underground magazines related to the punk scene.

These magazines may not have been aesthetically pleasing, but they showed a generation putting in their own contributions towards the punk scene. They were a combination newspaper cut outs, hand drawn typography, low quality images edited by hand and also hand drawn images. It all screamed punk. It is clear that these fanzines may not have had and prior influences ( due to the fact they didn’t have much thought process to making the, instead adapting to on the spot creativity) but they clearly influenced what was to come. Due to their overall look and the reaction they brought along these fanzines moved up to influence grunge graphic design in an astonishing way. Once again showing that even the armature works such as the punk zines left their permanent dent in art history.