The Designers Republic — Customized Terror (UK) / New & Used
100% Recycled Culture · The Forum Sheffield · original double-sided 1995 exhibition flyer
21 November 1995 – 28 January 1996 · ★ Gold Star object
Original 1995 double-sided Designers Republic exhibition flyer for Customized Terror (UK) at The Forum, Sheffield, running 21 November 1995 to 28 January 1996. The front uses the studio’s characteristic consumer-culture parody and graphic layering; the reverse functions as a compact primary document, explaining the New York Synaesthesia and Customized Terror contexts, announcing the proposed New & Used book, and cataloguing DR Fresh Produce shirts and posters.
Read the catalogue note →- Event
- Customized Terror (UK) / New & Used — 100% Recycled Culture
- Promoter
- The Designers Republic; Ronald Jones credited as curator of Customized Terror.
- Venue
- The Forum, Devonshire Quarter, Sheffield
- Location
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Original admission / price
- Exhibition admission price not established from the reviewed material.
- Designer
- The Designers Republic
- Format
- Double-sided A5-format exhibition flyer / handbill
- Condition
- Very Good+ / Near Fine appearance from supplied photographs.
- Completeness
- Complete as a single double-sided printed flyer; both front and reverse are present and photographed.
- Event relationship
- Customized Terror (UK) / New & Used — 100% Recycled Culture
- Venue relationship
- Browse The Forum, Devonshire Quarter, Sheffield objects
Catalogue note
Original 1995 double-sided Designers Republic exhibition flyer for Customized Terror (UK) at The Forum, Sheffield, running 21 November 1995 to 28 January 1996. The front uses the studio’s characteristic consumer-culture parody and graphic layering; the reverse functions as a compact primary document, explaining the New York Synaesthesia and Customized Terror contexts, announcing the proposed New & Used book, and cataloguing DR Fresh Produce shirts and posters. A small, low-value piece of ephemera with unusually strong documentary value for 1990s British graphic design.
Advertised programme: Exhibition and merchandise announcement; not a DJ programme.
Graphic-design significance: Original Designers Republic exhibition ephemera using the studio’s layered consumer-brand parody, dense typography and mascot/iconography to advertise the first UK presentation of selected Customized Terror material.
Historical context: The reverse states that Customized Terror (UK) brought selected works from Synaesthesia at Mary Anthony Gallery, New York, and work commissioned for Ronald Jones’s Customized Terror at Artists Space, New York, to Sheffield. It also announces the then-forthcoming New & Used book project and lists contemporary DR merchandise and print editions. Held alongside BLECH 03, it makes the movement of club-related graphic design into exhibition, book and merchandise formats visible without treating an exhibition as a rave.
Through the flyers
Explore the club-culture timeline to follow advertised dates, places and billed performers across the held flyers.
Further sources
Event details are drawn from the held object and the qualified catalogue research above. A printed bill establishes an advertised booking, not confirmation that a performer appeared.
Why this object matters
The Sheffield exhibition flyer contains the studio's own contemporary account of projects and proposed publishing alongside merchandise information. Its unusually explicit self-documentation supports exceptional design-history value independent of the flyer’s monetary value.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Historical context
The reverse states that Customized Terror (UK) brought selected works from Synaesthesia at Mary Anthony Gallery, New York, and work commissioned for Ronald Jones’s Customized Terror at Artists Space, New York, to Sheffield. It also announces the then-forthcoming New & Used book project and lists contemporary DR merchandise and print editions. Held alongside BLECH 03, it makes the movement of club-related graphic design into exhibition, book and merchandise formats visible without treating an exhibition as a rave.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.2 / 10 · Gold Star.
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