Psychadelic Posters

1. Sum up the reading in your own words in 1 paragraph:
The reading was relatively short. However, there was a lot of really interesting things to learn about "hippie art". Drugs, hippie mentality, and the cultural revolution of the 60's preaching free love into the 70's made for an exciting time to see some new innovations in art. The reading contributed images that exemplified the psychadelic art style that used a wide variety of merging colors and weird design patterns. Civil rights movements, hippie subculture of the 60's and the Vietnam War were all world events that contributed to this style. The whole anti-establishment idea of the culture was the main inspiration behind most of the posters that one would see from the psychadelic era. Most designers from the era that are well known were self taught and mainly designed posters that were made to sell concerts or ideas (like do drugs, be happy, ect.). Robert Wesley "Wes" Wilson was one of them, making innovations in patterns and typography.

2. Name the one thing (or person) you found most interesting from the reading.
I found psychadelic posters in general to be super interesting. This is really the first time in design history where we see people making posters that weren't necessarily trying to sell you a product, but rather an idea. Psychadelic posters were created to sell you ideas like "take some drugs, go listen to some music, go make love, have fun." I just think that's really cool.

3. State at least one question you have after the reading or from last class.
Did that one free press company go out of business because it was too anti-establishment or what was up with that? The text didn't really elaborate.