Going to the States, we find other great punk bands that
emerged as well during the seventies as I have mentioned earlier that crisis weren’t
only just taking place in England. USA was as well in a social chaos and as
Wilson Smith (designer for Dead Kennedys) states that when he returned back
from Italy, he was quite shocked with what was happening in society as for the
same reason that English people had, people emerged against the government
cause of scandals that were going around.
He wasn’t just surprised because people were standing up for their rights, but as from how the people’s attitude have turned upside down from being all vain and pompous to rebelling and this had to happen just in time when punk rock was growing excessively.
He wasn’t just surprised because people were standing up for their rights, but as from how the people’s attitude have turned upside down from being all vain and pompous to rebelling and this had to happen just in time when punk rock was growing excessively.
As punk was as well growing excessively in the States,
designers were producing art works as well, yet as Jell Biafra; another
Designer for Dead Kennedys who worked with Wilson Smith on artworks, explains
how he used to design.
He basically had the same base as the English designers did, Do It Yourself. As an artist he stated that they didn’t really need sophisticated things just like any psychedelic poster but just like the Dada movement, where one just cuts out some few things from different mediums they used to find around and then glue them pieces together to create a composition.
But one must say that as rebels as the punk artists were (both musicians and designers) had just a little bit of a different idea about their composition; whereas Jell Biafra explains that to create something that looked good, all it took was someone who pops up with one amazing idea; and the best one idea that they base their composition on is the one that offends almost everyone who sees it.
He basically had the same base as the English designers did, Do It Yourself. As an artist he stated that they didn’t really need sophisticated things just like any psychedelic poster but just like the Dada movement, where one just cuts out some few things from different mediums they used to find around and then glue them pieces together to create a composition.
But one must say that as rebels as the punk artists were (both musicians and designers) had just a little bit of a different idea about their composition; whereas Jell Biafra explains that to create something that looked good, all it took was someone who pops up with one amazing idea; and the best one idea that they base their composition on is the one that offends almost everyone who sees it.
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