We’ve used this space before the celebrate the pleasures of the handmade, Xeroxed flyers and posters used to promote up-and-coming acts in punk and new wave, made in an aggressive, DIY style that translated music to image. So we’re positively giddy about the Museum of Arts and Design’s new exhibit, Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986, which collects more than 400 pieces of punk-related graphic design, and in doing so, “charts punk’s explosive impact on design and examines its complex relationship with art, history, and culture,” according to new museum director Chris Scoates.
The show is up at the MAD in New York through August 18, but don’t fret if you can’t make it; we’ve got a handful of the best images of the show to share.
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Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976–1986 is on display through August 18 at the Museum of Arts and Design, located at 2 Columbus Circle in New York City.