Out Of Step Magazine
Based on ink drawings for an unfinished comic strip i did in 1984, but never published. I was asked by Art director/editor Christin Malen to do something on the theme Out Of Step for her magazine in 2009. The dots are made with Letraset screen tones and the red mimics the photo-graphically opaque overlay we used back then in the pre-Macintosh era.
The piece is of course a reference to Washington DC hardcore punk band Minor Threat and their red overlay record cover from 1984 that NIKE Skateboarding later stole to use on a poster campaign with blue overlay and the text Major Threat.
The cut-out X is from my font Strategiche and refers of course to Straight Edge.
Straight Edge refers to an existentialist subculture of hardcore punk, which was a direct reaction to the sexual revolution, hedonism, and excess associated with punk rock. In its simplest form, straight edge is a philosophy of staying clean and sober: meaning refraining from using alcohol, tobacco, and any other recreational drugs. For some, this extends to following a vegetarian or vegan diet, not using caffeine or prescription drugs, or engaging in promiscuous sex. The term was coined by the 1980s hardcore punk band Minor Threat in the song Straight Edge.
Wikipedia