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Working Bibliography

K, Stephanie. “Religion through the Eyes of Lady Gaga and Madonna.” Medium, Medium, 15 Oct. 2016, https://medium.com/@stephanie.karp/religion-through-the-eyes-of-lady-gaga-and-madonna-b9327da95d3. 

Freitas, Donna. “Madonna’s Cross Raises Thorny Questions.” NPR, NPR, 16 Aug. 2006, https://www.npr.org/2006/08/16/5658956/madonnas-cross-raises-thorny-questions.

The New York Times. “60 Times Madonna Changed Our Culture.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 16 Aug. 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/16/arts/music/madonna-birthday-impact.html.

Walters, Barry. “As Much as I Can, as Black as I Am: The Queer History of Grace Jones.” Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 25 Aug. 2015, https://pitchfork.com/features/from-the-pitchfork-review/9708-as-much-as-i-can-as-black-as-i-am-the-queer-history-of-grace-jones/. 

“Why Grace Jones Was the Most Pioneering Queen of Pop.” BBC Culture, BBC, 22 June 2020, https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200619-why-grace-jones-was-the-most-pioneering-queen-of-pop. 

Jabbar, Sumayra. “12 Amazing Facts About Grace Jones.” Mentalfloss, Mentalfloss, 7 Jun. 2019, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/581140/grace-jones-facts.

According to Heller, “designers for mainstream advertising companies, weaned on alternative approaches, have folded the underground into the mainstream and call it “cool.”” Commercial artists constantly take what was born as “cultural resistance to mainstream power structures” (1), they “add an ornament here and there to make it palatable for the consumer class, and—voila!—instant allure and immediate sales”. A nowadays example is the new collection by Louis Vuitton which embraces the old-school streetwear. Embracing might not be the right word (they literally steal it) if you take a look at the Louis Vuitton new collection of sweatshirts, denim shirt, suits and blazers which wear oversize and perfectly resemble the hoodies, t-shirts and baggies of 90s with the only difference of the applied monogram pattern.  

As ““streetwear style” which were born as rebellious form of counterculture has been appropriated and integrated into everyday and luxury fashion”, the Constructivist style has been expropriated and applied on 2000 Franz Ferdinand album covers by Matthew Cooper. The main reason of this choice by Cooper and the band was because their music reflected Constructivism characteristics, “the geometric style really suited the sound, those sharp corners and edges”. Their goal was since the beginning to stands out from other rock bands, so they created catch songs to make the girls dance and they wanted visually to do the same. Their outfit is unique as their album covers. Matthew Cooper made sure that every cover of the band had a different logo, because the band embraces the idea of evolution, and the logo has to reflect it. In opposition to the Russian movement which wanted to give a meaning to art, Franz Ferdinand as all the commercial artists decided to use art just for an aesthetic reason.  None of the Franz Ferdinand had a background in graphic design, but they admitted being strongly influenced by art and everything that surrounds them is in their music. Their intention was of “questioning the standards and defying the norms of contemporary culture” . In some way Franz Ferdinand entered the mainstream field with an underground spirit. 

Sources:

1. Concepts and Practices of the Underground 

Christoph Lindner and Andrew Hussey 

pp. 13-20 (8 pages) 

Stable URL 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wp6td.5

2. ‘Loaded’: Indie Guitar Rock, Canonism, White Masculinities 

Matthew Bannister 

Popular Music 

Vol. 25, No. 1, Special Issue on Canonisation (Jan., 2006), pp. 77-95 (19 pages) 

Stable URL 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3877544

3. https://www.printmag.com/culturally-related-design/punk-aesthetic-graphic-design/ 

4. https://cnaluxury.channelnewsasia.com/obsessions/louis-vuitton-nigo-capsule-collection-179641 

5. https://www.bandlogojukebox.com/blog/2020/5/20/f2-franz-ferdinand 

Sources:

Design as Art. translated by Patrick Creagh, Penguin Classics, 2008. pp. 25-33, 37-40.

Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design. Kiosk Books, 1996. pp. 24-32, 41-45.

Marinetti: Selected Writings. Edited by R.W. Flint, translated by Arthur A. Coppotelli. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972.

Painting Photography Film. Translated by Janet Seligman. MIT Press, 1973. pp. 38-40. Reproduced in Graphic Design Theory, pp. 32-34

herbert bayer: painter, designer, architect. Rheinhold, 1967. pp. 75-77. Reproduced in Graphic Design Theory, pp. 44-49

Josef Müller-Brockmann, Grid and Design Philosophy (1981): 

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effect, co-created by McLuhan and Quentin Fiore in 1967

Steven Heller, from 2008, entitled The Underground Mainstream

Jessica Helfand, Dematerialization of Screen Space (2001)

Brower, Steven. “How the Rolling Stone Logo Evolved from an Incredible Mistake.” Eye on Design, 3 Oct. 2018, https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/design-history-101-how-the-rolling-stone-logo-evolved-from-an-incredible-mistake/.

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Los Angeles Times. (2018, September 4). ‘just do it’: The surprising and morbid origin story of Nike’s slogan. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 4, 2022, from https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nike-colin-kaepernick-20180904-story.html

Wilson, J. (2020, May 3). The last dance: How a spike Lee and Michael Jordan commercial came to be. The Last Dance: How a Spike Lee, Michael Jordan commercial came to be. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://hoopshabit.com/2020/05/03/last-dance-spike-lee-michael-jordan-commercial/amp/

Laliberte, M. (2021, April 2). The surprising origin of Nike’s “Just do it” slogan. Reader’s Digest. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://www.rd.com/article/nike-just-do-it-origin/

Wilson, J. (2020, May 3). The last dance: How a spike Lee and Michael Jordan commercial came to be. Hoops Habit. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://hoopshabit.com/2020/05/03/last-dance-spike-lee-michael-jordan-commercial/

Ahla. (2020, November 14). Ahla. Kickzon. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://kickzon.com/the-air-jordan-spizike-and-spike-lees-importance-to-jordan-brand/

In this article, Steven Heller talks about… an appropriation of other works in design. Appropriation can be found in different aspects of media. Music, art, design, advertisement. Also, Heller says about the “boom” that the underground can face and become mainstream. He remembers avant-garde and psychedelic movements that were known to low masses at the time but then became more popular and got more and more followers to the point where these trends became a real movement that people study at art or design schools. 

I can remember examples of underground becoming mainstream but in music. Thrash, punk, grunge, alternative rock–all of these sub-genres of rock music were underground, where even not every rocker would listen to or play. However, later bands such as Metallica for thrash-metal, Sex Pistols for punk, Nirvana for grunge, and Linkin Park for alternative rock and rap-core (as well as MANY others) made their music mainstream and so popular that they had and have millions of followers and successors. 

As for appropriation–this is such a thin line between plagiarism and being inspired by others. Even now in the MTA subway, you may find a poster of, if I am not mistaken, some art exhibition, and that poster is clearly made in the style of avant-garde and/or dadaism. Some may say this is an inspiration and show of respect to the movement (which I personally agree with) or pure plagiarism (maybe not for 100%) and the poster-maker could not make something more original. I think, in art, design, and music it is impossible to make something purely original. One way or another the author would be inspired by the works of other people before him or his contemporary who works in the same field. And that is ok! It would be a genius, a person who would create something original, from the concept to the implementation. Every author from every movement was inspired by something or someone one way or another. The same avant-garde and dadaism were the answer to the horrors of World War I. Punk-rock music is the rebellious answer of youth to the times and life laws they did not want to follow anymore. Grunge rock is a successor (in a way) of punk, and alternative rock is linked to grunge. Inspiration is everywhere. Even now, while writing this paper, I am listening to a playlist of a “Classical Music for Writing” (that’s the name of the video), and in this playlist is, of course, “Swan Lake” by Tchaikovsky. So I was listening to it and caught myself thinking that this music reminded me of the main theme of Harry Potter somehow. Maybe not blatantly, but the mood of the music and some notes, some portion of melody looked (or rather was heard) like the Harry Potter movie theme.

When going through the reading, it’s interesting to learn about how inspirations from designs are always being brought out differently. Of course it’s one thing to be inspired about art, however, I wouldn’t really think about how common it is to actually take someone else’s work and put it as your own. I always wonder if using a method like that is actually a good thing? Especially when you look at regular/not well known designers having there work being used without permission, I believe it’s actually pretty scary. It’s almost as if you can never do anything with your art because people would always try to work there way around your work.

As a person like myself who always follows a lot of artist on social media, I have come to witness on those several occasions where I see a work from an artist that I like that has there work stolen such as being traced over, using it to sell merchandise, etc. To me, it’s pretty sad the way these folks are treating artist. Us artist deserves to be recognize as real workers too. It’s such a weird thing to see how dedicated these folks are to going the extra step in wanting to devalue their work. Especially when it comes down to not creating anything original anymore.

To take inspiration from an artist is always a good thing. Being able to become inspired by there work is pretty much the type of drug an artist needs in order to let their creative mode start flowing. When we post art on social media, we have to factor in so much. We also have to understand that situations like this is too common which is pretty disappointing. With so many different kinds of art out there, I’m still certain that we have original arts.