Mike Joyce has been creating amazingly cool CD covers, music packaging, and posters for years through his work at Stereotype Design. His side project has been Swissted, his effort to recreate classic punk rock gig posters from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, in Swiss Modernist style. Now there's a brilliant collection of the best of these posters in book form.
With Swissted, Joyce takes the raw, ragged xeroxed posters that he loved in his youth growing up outside Albany, NY, and reimagines them using only Akzidenz Grotesk medium lowercase type and graphic elements. It's a typography and design geek's dream! Bands like Fear, the Germs, Social Distortion, Black Flag, and the Minutement are given precise, geometric treatments, complete with opening acts and gig dates and locations. Joyce also includes homages to more mainstream and new wave bands like the Clash, R.E.M., and the Smiths, but you can see his heart lies with the thrashing sounds (and funky poster design) of hardcore punk rock.
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