Kate Moross is what some might call a modern punk. In one of her talks of this subject as she addresses that one of her biggest influences is from riot girl which use the core element of punk and are prominent within many different and uses the DIY methods
At the core of her talk in retrospect she addresses the impact of themes and influences that work has.
Ethos
"Modern day hacking - hacking your career"
"hacking whatever you can"
These ethos were found to be within her naturally.
First fanzine she created
reaction to the discovery of this ethos
Found a photocopier and started to photocopy everything.
Discovering myspace, terrible software but allowed her to do so much.
Since it was so horrible looking gave people the motivation to make something nice off the back of this Moross learnt coding for her own website much later in the future.
Its in these discoveries that we all make that future generations will also go down this path and these things come together to create what Moross beliveves to be "the most amazing DIY utopia that we have at our fingertips right now" All the answers to questions are there.
illusion of the wall between there and here, between designer and yourself but there is no barrier "no differentce between anybody" a lot of people coming through the art education system can see a wall. From what theyve taught
If you cant f**cking do it then LEARN how.
because its our only choice. You have to go out there and get it. If you cant do something finding the motivating
Instead of saying bullshit we...
When thinking about herself she recognizes that improvising is a huge part of her work, there a lot of ease that her work creates with the handmade nature in which she presents thing as, personality and volume are very apparent.
Also acknowleding the limitation of budget and finding ways around those limitations which many punks in the past were also presented with limitations and their design was informed by this rather than suffering for it. One specific example being that she couldn't afford the royalties for Damien Hurst diamond skull so they just dipped a skull in glitter and it worked well.
"Simple is cool"
Adressing the idea that simplicity in an idea can go a long way. Also being able to work quickly. In Moross' process of design she talks about how she thinks the best way of coming up with ideas is going it quickly.
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