Russ Bestley

Russ Bestley is a designer and writer, specialising in graphic design, punk and humour. His publications include A Different Kind of Tension: Post-Punk Graphic Design in the UK, 1976-1990 (forthcoming), Action Time Vision: Punk & Post Punk 7” Record Sleeves (2016), The Art of Punk (2012), Visual Research (2004, 2011, 2015, forthcoming) and Up Against the Wall (2002), with chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Global Popular Music (2020), The Oxford Handbook of Punk (2020), The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humour (2019), Comedy and Critical Thought: Laughter as Resistance (2018), Ripped, Torn and Cut: Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976 (2018), Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning (2017), The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics, Music (2016) and Classic Rock Posters (2012) among others. He has designed and curated exhibitions in London, Southampton, Blackpool, Leeds, Birmingham and Newcastle and designed books, posters and other graphic material for the Punk Scholars Network, Active Distribution, PM Press, Viral Age Records and other independent labels and publishers. Russ is Reader in Graphic Design & Subcultures at the London College of Communication, editor of the journal Punk & Post-Punk and co-editor of the Global Punk book series published by Intellect Books and the Punk Scholars Network. His research portfolio can be accessed at www.hitsvilleuk.com.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5262-219X