Industrial Music/Graphics Book Charts Visual Language of the Genre
In September, Chris Grimley and Alan Rapp initiated a Kickstarter campaign that successfully funded "Industrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a Movement," a 320-page exploration that met its funding target within a month. This book serves as the first extensive visual account of the graphic design associated with industrial music, showcasing album artwork, logos, and posters through the insights of both designers and musicians. Grimley identifies the genre's roots in the mid-1970s U.K. with Throbbing Gristle and Industrial Records. Spanning eleven chapters, the book traces the genre's development from the 1980s to its mainstream emergence in the 1990s, highlighted by Nine Inch Nails. Notable graphic designers featured include Peter Christopherson, Neville Brody, and Barbara Kruger.
Key facts
- Industrial Music/Graphics: A Visual History of a Movement is a 320-page book by publishers Chris Grimley and Alan Rapp.
- A Kickstarter campaign launched in September reached its funding goal within a month.
- The book is the first comprehensive visual history of industrial music's graphic design language.
- It features hundreds of album covers, logos, posters, type studies, and ephemera.
- Industrial music began in the U.K. in the mid-1970s with Throbbing Gristle and their label Industrial Records.
- The book has eleven chapters in roughly historical order, from precursors to Industrial Legacies.
- Key labels mentioned include Nettwerk in Vancouver and Wax Trax! in Chicago.
- Designers profiled include Peter Christopherson, Neville Brody, Simone Grant, Steven R. Gilmore, Brian Shanley, Patrick Codenys, The Designers Republic, Tomato, Gary Talpas, Rob Sheridan, Russell Mills, David Carson, Dave McKean, Steven Stapleton, and Barbara Kruger.
Entities
Artists
- Chris Grimley
- Alan Rapp
- Peter Christopherson
- Neville Brody
- Simone Grant
- Steven R. Gilmore
- Brian Shanley
- Patrick Codenys
- Gary Talpas
- Rob Sheridan
- Russell Mills
- David Carson
- Dave McKean
- Steven Stapleton
- Barbara Kruger
- John Kehe
- Mick Haggerty
- Brett Turnbull
- Paul White
- JG Thirlwell
- Daniel B.
- James Brown
Institutions
- Industrial Records
- Throbbing Gristle
- Coil
- Skinny Puppy
- Front 242
- Nitzer Ebb
- Ministry
- Nettwerk
- Wax Trax!
- Nine Inch Nails
- The Designers Republic
- Tomato
- Hipgnosis
- Mute Records
- Fetish Records
- Consolidated
- Kickstarter
- PRINT Magazine
- Art Attack
- Art & Strategy
Locations
- United Kingdom
- Vancouver
- Canada
- Chicago
- United States
- San Francisco