{"product_id":"tdr™40-this-machine-kills-fascists","title":"TDR™40 - This Machine Kills Fascists - Screenprint","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally created as a cover image in response to an, as yet, unreleased album by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/marcosimioni.bandcamp.com\/\"\u003eMarco Simioni\u003c\/a\u003e, stalled by the death of Mille Plateaux reactivator Achim Szepanski, This Machine Kills Fascists joins the TDR™40 collection as a special anniversary edition celebrating forty years of The Designers Republic™’s “uncompromising visual language and cultural commentary”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title borrows the famous slogan first painted on Woody Guthrie's guitar in the early 1940s. For Guthrie \"This Machine Kills Fascists\" expressed the belief that music, ideas and culture could be powerful weapons against fascism, authoritarianism and injustice, and the twats that support it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bespoke letterforms are geometric deconstructions built on broken incoherent ‘discredited’ swastikas… not to re-contextualise or punk glam-up the hi-jacked symbol, but to expose and confront it. “As with much of The Designers Republic™’s work, familiar visual language is appropriated, deconstructed and reworked to provoke thought rather than passive consumption.”\u003cbr\u003eIan Anderson: “We debated long and hard about whether any use of the swastika, even deliberately broken, even if the idea was sound, was a sound idea… We decided that the debate in itself was reason enough to evolve the idea…”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeticulously screen printed by Imp in Sheffield, this edition reflects four decades of design that has consistently challenged convention, questioned authority and refused to separate aesthetics from ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you’re offended by TDR’s anti-fascist attitude… go fuck yourself. ‘The Right is Wrong’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited Edition Screenprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-stamped, embossed, signed and numbered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e500 × 700 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdition of 40.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMunken Design Polar Rough Crisp White 300 gsm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo-colour Black Screentec Aqua Art Fluorescent inks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScreen printed at Imp. Studio, Sheffield, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTDR™40 2026.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Divine Rights™","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56901776900420,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0783\/1702\/7652\/files\/DSC_0206_30f493f0-bf95-43a7-9a0c-3421a4de4d88.jpg?v=1782823545","url":"https:\/\/divinerights.co.uk\/products\/tdr%e2%84%a240-this-machine-kills-fascists","provider":"Divine Rights™","version":"1.0","type":"link"}