The logo of the anarchist punk band Crass criticizes symbols of power. It was also designed with the premise of being used as a stencil for graffiti.

 

Crass spraypainted a lyric from one of their songs here as an anti-nuclear slogan. Punk band manager and author of the first lesbian play in England, the photographer Jill Posener, documented this stencil. Shepublished political and early feminist graffiti in an illustrated book called Spray it loud (1982)

Photo: Jill Posener.

In keeping with the do-it-yourself principle of punk, punk zines not only discussed records and concerts, but also, as here, gave detailed instructions and copy templates on how you could spray stencil graffiti like Crass.

 

Instead of Blek le Rat, Crass' stencil graffiti and Gee Vaucher's Crass cover images were influential for street artists like Robert del Naja and Banksy.