Saturday's Kids is a visual history book tracking and defining UK subcultures rendered by and according to, minimalist illustrator Marcus Reed. It offers a roadmap through the UK's subcultures from the early eighties through the turn of the century to today. Taking off with the Modernists born in the fifties we touch back down to present day...
The only book of its kind, Saturday's Kids is a visual history book tracking and defining UK subcultures, rendered by minimalist illustrator Marcus Reed. Reed's first and only book, Saturday's Kids offers a roadmap from the eighties through the turn of the century to today.
Marcus is an award winning illustrator (Hiii Brand International Merit Award Winner - Animal Alphabet) who graduated from Newcastle College with an HND in Advertising (Illustration). He moved to London where he worked at Saatchi & Saatchi's in-house studio for four years, before turning freelance. He has since worked on a number of projects in illustration. Including Harrods, Le Coq Sportif, American Express, MTV, Major League Baseball, Mundial Mag, Original Casuals, Sock Council and End Clothing. Getting turned on to the arts and pop culture from an impressionable young age will have con- sequences. For Marcus Reed, it instilled in him the drive to design a visual approach all his own and today he is sought after for his own brand of retro contemporary illustration. With a particular eye for rendering pop culture's Getting turned on to the arts and pop culture from an impressionable young age will have consequences. For Marcus Reed, it instilled in him the drive to design a visual approach all his own and today he is sought after for his own brand of retro contemporary illustration. With a par- ticular eye for rendering pop culture's best, his dig- ital mixed media approach amplifies his subject's personality to perfection, layering only the barest of essential 2 and 3D elements using line, shape and color.
The only book of its kind, Saturday's Kids is a visual history book tracking and defining UK subcultures, rendered by minimalist illustrator Marcus Reed. Reed's first and only book, Saturday's Kids offers a roadmap from the eighties through the turn of the century to today.
Tribe: Personal History of British Subcultures Martin Roach 9781906191290 27.95 John Blake 2016
The only book of its kind depicting UK subcultures in an illustrated minimalist format Will appeal to anyone interested in music and fashion from the early 1980s until present day