Designing a New Way of Seeing: A Conversation with Russ Bestley about Graphic Design in U.K. Punk by Daniel Makagon

Part of the Seeing the Scene Series

I first met Russ Bestley six or seven years ago at a Punk Scholars Network (PSN) conference in England. Russ helped found this organization to bring professors, students, independent scholars, writers, and other punk fans together who are interested in writing and talking about punk’s unique histories and contemporary cultural experiences. He also edits a journal called Punk & Post-Punk, which has been an important outlet for punk research. Russ’s specialty is graphic design, and I was excited to have an opportunity to talk with him about the integration of photography into some historical U.K. punk records.

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