Contemporary Designer Jamie Reid - God Save The Queen Artwork

Jamie Reid, an English designer whom did artworks and was a designer for a band called The Sex Pistols; where he produced this poster called God Save the Queen – Swastika eyes. The artist here have intended  to do a poster for a hit single (song) called ‘God save the queen’ where he totally managed to interpret very well the way he wanted to make a fool out of the Queen as the song produced was against the Queen of England. This came when those days teenagers rebelled against the order and political issues which was caused by the state of living.

On the first glance at this image one would notice that is very messy when it comes to typography which looks that its done by hand very freehand. Going through the technique and materials he used, back then in the punk era artist commonly used a lot of cut outs from newspapers and used photography which is called décollage which in my opinion he was inspired from the Swiss modern where they created photo montage and On the first glance at this image one would notice that is very messy when it comes to typography which looks that its done by hand very freehand. Going through the technique and materials he used, back then in the punk era artist commonly used a lot of cut outs from newspapers and used photography which is called décollage which in my opinion he was inspired from the swiss modern where they created photomontage and that is exactly what Jamie did here.
 

What he did here, Reid placed a safety pin cut out which he might found in a magazine or shot a photo of a safety pin and then manipulated it as he might developed it and after added it to the image, placing it onto the queen’s lips which back then a safety pin was used for piercings. A marker was used to write down the name of the song (god save the queen) and part of its lyrics (she ain’t no human being). Yet all of this shows lack of quality, but considering that the queen’s picture was cut out from a newspaper or photocopied from a poster the artist had no choice for better quality and considering their style in art was all about being messed up and grudge it goes along perfectly.

This poster means quite a lot to me, first of all I'm into punk music and if it’s not about the sex pistols, it’s about nobody (as who’s in this scene would know exactly what I mean, and for whom not; well they’re the beginning of all). Secondly, this type of art (punk art) is all about being straight to the point, which I like most about it. This, just like everything new was controversial and shocking back then as making a fool out of the queen was/is not a joke and this left a huge lasting effect on us today; considering that I was born in the 90's this type of art isn't a huge part in today’s my era, yet today’s culture expresses a lot in street art (graffiti) and what was going on back then (70s punk era) is exactly what’s going on today except the music industry (i.e. rap/hip hop music) is different in style but promoting life on the streets and based on rebellion in the youth society against politics/ wars/ lifestyle and so on.