Born in 1994 by London-based design duo Adam Thorpe and Joe Hunter, Vexed Generation was conceived as a means of active political resistance, an outcry against the failings of government and a rallying call to find new creative solutions. Amid the growing socio-poilitical dissent of the 1990s, partially invoked by widespread distrust of state power in the face of increasingly extensive surveillance, the 1994 Criminal Justice Act (CJA), a widening gulf in social inequality and London’s deteriorating air quality, Vexed grew out of a necessity to act and a desire to protect.
