Turning revolt into style

The process and practice of punk graphic design

By: Russ Bestley

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Hardcover | 2 September 2025

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284 Pages

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Turning revolt into style: The process and practice of punk graphic design is 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.

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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

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