ANTI-DESIGN (PUNK):

Question 1

CONTEXT: Era,
background,
influences, what
was happening in
the world at the
time.

Answer 1

(PUNK): 70s/80s, UK London, economic recession, anti-authority,
anti-establishment, youth driven, protests, consensus politics, link to music and fashion

Question 2

FACTS: Designer
name and names
of two designs

Answer 2

• Vivienne Westwood (God Save the Queen T-shirt & The Anarchy Shirt)

Question 3

ANALYSIS:
Characteristics of
movement and
detail of two
examples

Answer 3

God Save the Queen T-shirt (Seditionaries range): 100% Cotton, screen printed image of the Queen
of England in blue and pink with a safety pin through her lip. Came out in black and white, sleeves
cut off. Branded with Sex pistols logo made up from type cut out from magazines. Designed for the
band, the Sex Pistols and then sold as an item in Westwood’s London shop.
The Anarchy Shirt: The shirts were turned inside out, hand-painted with dyes, stencilled slogans
and attached specific hand-made patches. Buttons replaced with pearl stud buttons of the 60s
period. The stencilled slogans such as ‘Only Anarchists Are Pretty’ and ‘Dangerously Close To Love’
were added so that they took on the look of something disorderly and uncared for. Each shirt took
four to five days to complete. Mao-style red armbands and silk patches of Karl Marx were sewn on.
Westwood chose him because his book started the Socialist and workers’ movements in the 19th
century.

Question 4

TERMINOLOGY:

Answer 4

DIY (Do-it-yourself technique)
Eclectic (a mix of styles)
Anti-materialistic (anti the preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects)
Utilitarian (designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive)
Anti-fashion (against traditional /conventional fashion design)
Tartan kilts (a type of knee-length skirt with pleats at the back, traditional dress of men and boys
in the Scottish Highlands)
Silkscreened t-shirts (a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate)
Subculture (a cultural group within a larger culture, often having beliefs or interests at variance
with those of the larger culture)
Anarchist symbols (a symbol to represent an anti-authoritarian philosophy)