Art and music have had a natural association with each other in almost every culture around the world since the beginning of history. When it comes to punk rock and its visual counterpart, the connection goes beyond just similar styles and ways of working. Artists who belonged to these two sides of the spectrum not only broke the same rules and appealed to the same audiences, but they were members of the same social groups and frequented the same neighborhoods and clubs. This paved the way for collaboration and parallel growth of both art forms. Through the DIY ethic, both visual and musical punk artists created their work and distributed it cheaply, directly avoiding participation in mainstream media and broader corporate agendas. Punk visual culture's most notable contribution is the zine. A punk zine is a business magazine about punk music and its corresponding scene. It is then reproduced using photocopies or other inexpensive printing and bound with a staple, if at all. For this reason, most zines were black and white, made cheaply, and made in copy shops. They intentionally ignore standard magazine layouts and display a level of anti-design. One of the DIY methods they used quite often was using "ransom" style cut-out letters cut from other magazines and newspapers to write their messages. Most zines were extremely low budget and the photocopied images gave a rough look while costing very little1, something they used to their advantage and embraced as part of the style. Jamie Reid, the Sex Pistols album cover designer for Never Mind The Bollocks used the same basic idea of ​​high contrast. The bright colors used were fluorescent pink and yellow with black. These com......middle of paper......15/the_permanent_revolution/3Triggs, Teal. “Scissors and glue”. Oxford University Design History Journals, 2006, HYPERLINK "http://www.jdh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/1/69" http://www.jdh.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content /abstract/19/1/694 Pomoni, Christina. “How Punk Rock's DIY Ethos Influenced Independent Record Labels.” February 28, 2009, HYPERLINK "http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1521552/how_the_diy_ethic_of_punk_rock_influenced.html?cat=33" http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1521552/how_the_diy_ethic_of_punk_rock_influenced.html?cat=335Heller, Steven. “Putting Punk in DIY: An Interview with John Holstrom.” AIGA, August 9, 2005, HYPERLINK "http://www.aigi.org/content.cfn/putting-the-punk-in-diy-an-interview-with-john-holstrom" http://www.aigi . org/content.cfn/putting-the-punk-in-diy-an-interview-with-john-holstrom