Rebellion was reflected through the medium of collage; juxtapositions of unconnected images and typography were brought together to create a sense of disorganisation and anti-institutionalism through paradoxical organisation of the composition.
Jamie Reid (1977) uses an image of Queen Elizabeth’s face in a collage promoting the Sex Pistols’ album entitled ‘God Save The Queen’. The cover’s image had power to shock through its unexpected association of a member of monarchy with the medium of collaged portraiture. Reid replaced the Queen’s eyes and mouth with crude slogans promoting the album.
Since I will be using typography to communicate the message of rebellion, it is important to research typography that has been used within the punk era.
I then decided to experiment with typefaces that would link and express the punk era. Through research it is evident that typography wasn’t neat and organised. Typefaces from the punk era are made to look as if it was made by hand; most designers and typography was created using hand-rendered methods such as print-screen to express their views of the post-modern society.
I will be using some of these typefaces within my designs to express the ideology that punk carried which was to blurr boundaries and to make the most of a “do it yourself” attitude.
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