Tag Archives: Graphics
Poster Youth
January 27, 2012 — by
La Raza Community Centre offered a variety of activities and support for local youth of San Diego during the late 70s–early 80s. La Raza Silkscreen Centre taught kids the skills needed to design their own posters. Powerful prints!
What About One of These Girls?
January 16, 2012 — by
The 19th annual Miss America pageant took place in Atlantic City, NJ on September 8th 1945. And the winner was—Miss New York City, Bess Myerson — the first Jewish woman to be crowned Miss America. Even after she had refused to change her name to something that sounded ‘less Jewish’. Cool Queen.
108 Sheets
December 13, 2011 — by
Single subject, college ruled, composition notebooks as high school journals. Cristy has over 100 journals chronicling twenty years of her life. The notebooks take us on a journey through her late ’90s high school days, when pop punk ruled and school drooled.
Gang Out
July 7, 2011 — by
In the late 70′s and early 80′s, Chicago gangbangers carried and distributed business cards. Not only are they amazing looking but they also functioned as a sort of signature and membership card for each neighborhood. The cards were most popular during a time when gangs were transitioning from the bats-and-bottles neighborhood crews for young delinquents into the more gun-heavy, racially motivated groups of today. Looking at the cards, you can see a really weird mix of scary violence and playful camaraderie of childhood friends.
