Jamie Reid is a graphic design best known for his work with the sex pistols, he is renowned for being a provokenaur and antaganiser, commonly using techniques from situationist international a french art movement which sits in nicely with avade garde, dadaists and anarchism, All big influences within the punk movement. Jamie reid was anti capatlist often using agit progit to put his point across. He owned a fanzine called suburban press which he would use to share his work to the world similar to how linder starling would share hers within the late 70's. He also used record sleeves creating the infamous god save the queen cover which sent huge waves of 'noise' through mass culture, the album cover artwork quickly became banned from the charts.
Because of the internets accessibility we have seen as huge rise in noise within mass culture, a constant wave of information overload unmanageable for the everyday human to take all this information in. From this I would like to make the point that more people are involved in the punk DIY ethos than ever befor because technology has made self production and publishing more accessible than ever. Now everyone is a reble and prokeavaunr from the push of a button, but it also means everyone is comedian and a beauty professional. Quickly the information being produced builds to exttremly high levels which creates an enviroment where it becomes extremly diificult for us to filter out the useful and unuseful. In short there is now to much 'noise' and punk can no longer be heard, but it is still with us it has just evolved and adapted. For example Adbusters a magazine which also runs as a blog created by anarchist kalle lasn. In terms of ethos his work is very closly related to punk, the anti- establishment, anti consumerism, activist, provokeantur . However the work has a diffrent aesthetic its often made on digital plateforms, this in terms of style is diffrent but when we break it down in term of ethos is still very similar. Because its about using the cheapest most accessible tools we have at hand and in 2017 that is the pc, in 1970's it was scissors and paper. times have changed and punk has evloved but there is no doubt that its legacy is still with us today even if its name and face has changed the essense and ethos is still close by.
An example of how ad busters has been influenced by jamie reid is there recent magazine cover which takes a cut out image of trump and has reapproiated the barcode to symbols fascism through symbotics of the hitler mustache. Jamie reid did the same but with the nazi symbol as eyeballs. using the cut and paste process to create his aesthetic.
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