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Russell Bestley
Graphic designer
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Aug 22, 2026
“Design as an Incendiary Device”
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Jonathan BarnbrookGUEST
A good designer will use those to disseminate the message as well as they can.

Russ BestleyGUEST
In the 60s, George Melly, who wrote a book about turning a volume into style, about pop music and radical pop music.

Russ BestleyGUEST
How do we take something, a concept, and turn it into something material? As a designer, I was always really interested in the process of design.

Russ BestleyGUEST
So you take an idea or a concept, which in punk terms is something like do-it-yourself or autonomy or the kind of control over process.

Russ BestleyGUEST
And then you enter into a profession where you have to work with a chain of controlled steps, right? towards getting something printed so you have to work with the typesetter or you have to work with a photographer or a plate maker and all of these people how does an amateur deal with that how does someone coming from our college deal with that how do you take an idea of do it yourself how do they express itself visually.

Russ BestleyGUEST
Is it a set of instructions? Or is it a concept? Buzzcocks did Spiral Scratch.
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