He has designed over 50 record covers for bands including Green Day, Burning Brides, Jello Biafra, George Carlin and many more. He most recently collaborated with blues-rock recording artist Ben Harper for Harper’s album “White Lies for Dark Times” with his band Relentless 7 (Virgin). The visual left hooks that Smith threw into the underground punk scene in the 1970’s and 80’s are now impacting a much wider audience. ![]() Smith is also responsible for the famous Alternative Tentacles logo for frontman Jello Biafra’s record label. Popularly described as an icon or emblem, Smith’s mark has been carved, sprayed, and tattooed into history on school desks and park benches, walls and tattoos all over the world. In 1981, his political shock piece, “Idol” brazenly adorned the Dead Kennedys album, “In God We Trust, Inc”. That album, banned in England and condemned by the American religious right, landed Smith and Dead Kennedys a permanent spot in the punk culture “Hall of Shame.”Įven more infamously, the “DK” logo that Smith created and designed for the band in early 1980 remains an international symbol of protest against authoritarianism. His technique of cutting out by hand and gluing each individual element has inspired a generation of artists. Smith first became known (and later beloved) for his collaborations with punk legends Dead Kennedys and his numerous album covers, inserts and flyers for the band in their formative years. Winston began taking “safe” images from magazines and combining them to create politically charged works of art that challenge the viewer to confront incongruities and political paradoxes of modern society. ![]() After being abroad for six years, Winston returned to America and was astonished by the complacency the American public exhibited towards the corporate domination in their society. ![]() Punk Art Surrealist Winston Smith, a master of “hand-carved” collage, has been crafting his thought-provoking art since the 1970s.
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