X @ W - - - - 6pm JUNE 27, 2009
W/ — — — gallery, 141 Division Street, New York City
OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 27, 2009
NYHC-X is an exhibition the considers the “X” use in the hardcore music movement Read the rest of this entry »
Elsewhere
Homes in New Orleans marked by Emergency Rescue Teams
Homes in New Orleans marked by Emergency Rescue Teams
Detail from page 3 of Tom Sachs’ self-published exhibition catalog Nutsys Version 0.91. I suspect it stands for Hardcore Foamcore, the material Sachs uses to build his models.
Detail from the inside back cover of Die Zeit magazine that indicates it was published during the 44th week of 2008
A variation of Fleeming Jenkin’s supply and demand graphic, first published in 1870, and popularized twenty years later by Alfred Marshall's 1890 textbook Principles of Economics.
212 Associates navigation plan for The City of Charlotte
Within the heraldry system the X configuration is called a saltire. But in contrast to the NYHC-X, its spaces are filled with imagery not initials.
Office's identity materials for Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari’s 826 Valencia storefront in San Francisco.
The Making of (Part 1)
a collection of NYHC-X marks from flyers, t-shirt designs and record covers
The New York Hardcore X is the mark associated with the musical genre New York Hardcore, the hyperactive continuation of Punk that flourished in mid-’80s New York. Bands and fans applied the X to their flyers, fanzines, records, clothes and bodies designating these things as New York Hardcore things. Twenty years later New York Hardcore is still around, and so is the mark, looking as fresh as it did “back in the day”. Compare any two flyers, fanzines or records and you’ll discover a different iteration on each, one looking like a skull and crossbones, and one like an chemical formula. This text tries construct a history for the NYHC X, or at least to hold a place for a history that can be written by someone else later.