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burning signs

Video is a part of the ongoing “Future series” by Italian artist Filippo Minelli. “Built to Burn” is the title Revok gave to the burning of the TheSeventhLetter…

typo on my way home

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exhibition “europunk”

First exhibited in Villa Médicis in Rome, “Europunk – the visual culture of punk in Europe, 1976-1980” was afterwards shown at the Museum Art Museum in Geneva. Curated by…

Art by Raymond Pettibon — Black Flag and beyond

Images: (1) shavedneck.com, (2) obeyclothing.com/blog, (3) dementlieu.com It was quite an awkward sight at MOCA’s Art in the Streets exhibition to see flyers for Black Flag shows framed….

the code of the hobos

Adam Sage’s hand looks like a spot the difference image for hobo codes to me even if none of these symbols seem hobo related or inspired by them. Hobos…

hardcore fonts

“Bandung Hardcore GP” Font by Gilang Purnama.Get it at Purnama’s page or at dafont. “Flyer Fonts” and “Schism” Font (solid black and skyline) by Dobek Ohashi from crucialxtimes.com….

designs by jeong jae-wan

Some more hangul. Images: jjwan.com

Symbol thistle – pain, protection, pride

Pain, protection and pride – pretty much sum up the different representations of the thistle. A friend told me about this and I became interpelled. This plant has…

logo wolvh

Love this rune based logo from Swiss-based WOLVH standing for Track Bike Militia. It just sits perfectly on the sweater. Image: wolvh.tumblr.com

Dave Bett and Revelation Records

[1] Youth of Today’s “Break Down the Walls” from doublecrossxx.com How can a live photo of Elvis look more hardcore than one of Judge? A while ago, I…

“extreme” metal logos

Images: historyofourworld.wordpress.com This artwork done by Andrew Mcleod above is what comes out if you throw extreme metal logos in the mix with Cy Twombly. For quite a…

clenched fist symbol

Images: docspopuli.org / earthfirstgathering.org.uk/ A brief and very informative history of the clenched fist symbol by Lincoln Cushing can be found at docspopuli.org. Cushing traces back the history…

exhibition “there is xerox on the insides of your eyelids”

 An exhibition evolving around 1980s Skate Fanzines and Xerox Art. Curated by Rich Jacobs, it first opened at San Francisco’s Needle and Pins in 2008. Afterwards it traveled…

black panther party’s typography

Which kind of typography influenced this book cover above? The answer will bring you back in time to the visual branding of the Black Panther Party. Actually, there…

Hip hop flyers by Buddy Esquire

Back in the days, flyers were the thing to do to get the word out about jams and battles, or how Troy L Smith says: “They were the…

nailed to the letter X

Photos: projectprojects.com X-ing up with a thick black marker, triple Xs or a single X on record sleeves, skin, buttons, flyers or clothes in all different forms thinkable…that’s…

hangul typography: korean film posters

Hangul – the Korean alphabet. Apart from the very simple, bold and geometrical basics of all its letters, I’m just amazed by how it can be used to…

hardcore punk typography – an introduction

Images 1-3 from merchnow.com / 4 harshforms Regardless of the flood of typography books in recent years, I still think that best ideas for typography are to be…