No Wave posters

Inspired by the books I got out of the library, specifically 'No Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York 1976-1980' I decided to look into no wave scene posters in a bid to gain a greater understanding of the visual language of the time.   

Picture of Beat it magazine courtesy of Julia Gorton - Theme of obstruction is apparent and the lo-fi aesthetic is conveyed in the messy brush stroke

Poster for an X magazine benefit gig - I have already watched the gig and it really sums up the raw energy of the genre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgsa45uXBFU - The poster has a nice juxtaposition of blocky and hand-written typography that I should try to capture

Lydia Lunch pictured on a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks poster/flyer courtesy of Julia Gorton - this shows the theme of seduction in the selling of No Wave music - there was a movement towards sex appeal and attempting to spark outrage with sexual imagery

The Lounge lizards featuring Arto Lindsay - not technically a poster but taken from the same book because of the deliberate removal of people not in the band which is a very no wave principle 

Poster for a Mars and DNA gig that was designed by the artists themselves under the name Jack Texas - stripped back aesthetic, blocky text, a bit like pop art but meaner  

Short pieces theatre flyer - text that shares letters and black and white contrast highlighted via inverted elements 

Mars and Flaming Youth flyers both using very different graphic styles. The marks flyer uses more colour than I would associate with No Wave but yet is still in conformity to a very regimented aesthetic. The flaming youth one uses a juxtaposition of scratchy hand drawn text and classic 70s typography that could be seen within the new wave or synthpop scene