Pandemic Punk: An Analysis of the Punk Design Aesthetic in Digital and Analogue Design Processes through the lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Pandemic Punk was completed as an MFA thesis for University of Baltimore's MFA in Integrated Design. Pandemic Punk explores the intersection of punk design and DIY (Do It Yourself) culture using analogue and digital design methods, through the lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pandemic Punk is a zine series that exists both physically and digitally. Both as a physical zine and as a website, pandemicpunk.com. This is the first iteration of the zine series, a personal reflection of the COVID-19 pandemic from March 13, 2020 to March 20, 2021; the zine begins from the first day the artist began working remotely to their second Pfizer vaccination shot. Pandemic Punk is proposed as a three-part series.