Powell Peralta Deck Graphics vs Punk
パウエル・ペラルタのデッキ図像 / パンク
Powell Peralta Deck Graphics comes from Illustration Styles and Punk from Counterculture. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Powell Peralta Deck Graphics
Imagery that fills the whole underside of a deck with a single emblem. Bones, skulls and dragons in heavy outline, set on the board as a team's flag in full knowledge that grinding will wear them away.
Punk
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A DIY objection to the authority of the tidy, made by cutting, pasting and dirtying.
| Powell Peralta Deck Graphics | Punk | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1980s | 1970s–1980s |
| Family | Illustration Styles | Counterculture |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | One emblem filling the underside of the deck / The figure held symmetrically at the center / Heavy black outline over flat color / A heraldry built from bones and skulls | Cut-and-paste letters / Photocopier noise / Handwriting / Ragged placement |
| Best used for | Building an emblem that names who something belongs to and fills a tall surface · Putting an image on an object that wears down in use, where the meaning has to outlast the wear | Voicing dissent against the rules · Giving events and communities a raw voice |
| Type | The name drawn by hand at the stroke weight of the art and built into the emblem | Mix newsprint letters, handwriting and stamps |
| Composition | A symmetrical figure set on the tall center axis, one image filling the surface to its edges | Deliberate misalignment and overlap; disturb even the margins |
| Material | Flat color inside heavy black outline, printed in few screens, with knockouts of bare wood as part of the figure | Copier paper, tears, black plus a warning color |
| Caution | Leaning into fine detail costs the emblem its reading the first time it grinds, so the more a board is ridden the less it names. | Borrowed rebellion is hollow. Decide what you are protesting first. |