The Psychedelic 60's

I often wish that I was around for the psychedelic and hippie counter culture in the 1960's. To be apart of music, artwork, and overall "new" outlook on life, would have truly been amazing. Unfortunately I was not born in the 60's and instead have had to look back on the time and do as much research as I can. One of the things that was going on in the early 60's was this new concept of psychedelic music and art, which in my opinion was the best music ever created, and some of the most unique and interesting artworks that I have ever seen. Some really influential graphic designers of the time were Wes Wilson, Victor Moscoso, and even Andy Warhol. The psychedelic movement started in San Francisco California, in the Haight, Ashbury District, this is were bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane and artists like Wes Wilson, were emerging from in the 1960's.
 Wes Wilson did a lot of really famous show posters for the venue The Fillmore in San Francisco. From my research Wes was really the one who created the psychedelic font that looks as if its moving or melting that you still see being re created today. He was a true innovator at the time and his name goes synonymous with artwork from the peace movement and hippie culture.

Another really famous designer of the 1960's psychedelic movement was Victor Moscoso, who took vibrant and high contrast colors and used them in his art work to create a "trippy" or psychedelic look to it. He would take colors from the opposite end of the color wheel and put them together to make a "vibrating" look on his posters. He too created a lot of posters for concerts at the time including the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore and Avalon Ballrooms. His signature vibration pattern and look is still being imitated today and goes hand in hand with psychedelic artwork.