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DixonBaxi creates new branding for reopened London venue Koko

In a flurry of recent nostalgia for the heyday of ‘indie sleaze’, it seems fitting that one of London’s most prominent epicentres of that eyeliner-laden, American Apparel-bedecked ‘scene’ has just reopened: Koko. The Camden live music venue and nightspot, once known as the Camden Palace and home to indie clubbers throughout the mid-00s, has undergone a £70-million restoration (the site...

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The untold graphic design history of rave era membership cards

The ‘second summer of love’ — that late 1980s/early 1990s rave apotheosis characterised by scorching heatwaves, outraged politicians, sweaty bucket hats and the sound of acid house — is often eulogised as a sort of brief utopia, where football nuts swapped hooliganism for hugs and disenfranchised youth suddenly had something to believe in. This idea of short-lived halcyon days free...

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The untold graphic design history of rave era membership cards

The ‘second summer of love’ — that late 1980s/early 1990s rave apotheosis characterised by scorching heatwaves, outraged politicians, sweaty bucket hats and the sound of acid house — is often eulogised as a sort of brief utopia, where football nuts swapped hooliganism for hugs and disenfranchised youth suddenly had something to believe in. This idea of short-lived halcyon days free...

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The untold graphic design history of rave era membership cards

The ‘second summer of love’ — that late 1980s/early 1990s rave apotheosis characterised by scorching heatwaves, outraged politicians, sweaty bucket hats and the sound of acid house — is often eulogised as a sort of brief utopia, where football nuts swapped hooliganism for hugs and disenfranchised youth suddenly had something to believe in. This idea of short-lived halcyon days free...

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The untold graphic design history of rave era membership cards

The ‘second summer of love’ — that late 1980s/early 1990s rave apotheosis characterised by scorching heatwaves, outraged politicians, sweaty bucket hats and the sound of acid house — is often eulogised as a sort of brief utopia, where football nuts swapped hooliganism for hugs and disenfranchised youth suddenly had something to believe in. This idea of short-lived halcyon days free...

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The untold graphic design history of rave era membership cards

The ‘second summer of love’ — that late 1980s/early 1990s rave apotheosis characterised by scorching heatwaves, outraged politicians, sweaty bucket hats and the sound of acid house — is often eulogised as a sort of brief utopia, where football nuts swapped hooliganism for hugs and disenfranchised youth suddenly had something to believe in. This idea of short-lived halcyon days free...