Punk Bill of Rights Poster

Experimental typesetting of The US Bill of Rights. For this poster, the style is the focal point. Punk is a sprawling global subculture that we are all aware of. When someone mentions having a “punk rock attitude”, we instantly understand the idea that is it grungy and messy. Punk is to live by your own politics and do things the way you want to. I decided to research ways to interpret the unsettling tension we have in this country and I found that punk has a way of repeating itself. It is a symptom of societal mood. Of crisis and rage. It even refuses definition. Some punk enthusiasts are highly political while others focus on their music. Some are about reflecting on vintage basics while others are bold and want to start something new. Punk is a DIY culture that is crude, informal, raw, empowering and very vocal. Politics and society can push people to feel strong bitterness, anger, and pure vitriol energy. I decided that I wanted to represent the rage of our society through a punk aesthetic. Art doesn’t have to go through a filtering process to be accepted or to have a message and it doesn’t have to be pretty and perfectly even to be balanced. It can be a visual riot, a reaction to modern events, anxieties showing visual stress. I really had fun creating this poster and I’m really excited to see how people interpret it. I hope that this poster helps push people to allow themselves to be empowered, to feel important and to be heard.
We are the style. We are the culture. We are the message.