Tag: PHASE 2

Bold flyers and breakbeats in 1970s-era Bronx

At AIGA’s Eye on Design, writer Jerome Harris looks at unsung graphic designer PHASE 2’s hand-distributed photocopied flyers “made from Letraset, markers, cut-up photographs, and glue” in 1970s-era South Bronx, where loosely organized parties held in emptied or burnt-out buildings would pave the way for hip hop culture.