The word itself psychedelic in mind is to
produce vivid visions which affect the mind greatly, the art techniques
themselves are immensely powerful it is as if the designer was hallucinating
while doing it as if he or she was in a kind of drugged state to produce this
kind of work, however it is very fascinating on account of the designer had to
be in a different state, exploring abnormalities that make the movement interesting.
There are several movements and techniques,
which inspired psychedelic for instance the flowing curves, textures from the
movement Art Nouveau, the use intense colour, practically undecipherable letters,
complimentary colours, making use of popular culture images. Plenty of the
designers in this movement were inspired by Pop art. Other things that inspired
the psychedelic movement: Rock musicians
had inspired fashion had inspired youth culture, vibrating effect in graphic
lines and texture was made into many wall paper designs, underground comic book
styles were also popular.
Social life was absolute chaos during this
movement, which have inspired a large number of artists and designers to create
interesting, designs, magazines. Even fans created interesting magazines themselves,
in spite of not being designers themselves they created interesting magazine
concepts titled “Fanzines” it is basically a nonofficial and nonprofessional
published work, created by fans of a particular culture, fanzines improved over
the years, in the beginning fanzines
were hand-drafted or typed, only a limited number were made at the time,
but eventually grew popular, however since technology developed greatly, there
is a little difference between a normal fanzine and a professional magazine.
The movement developed in the mid-1960. The
Psychedelic movement had affected cultures, lifestyles, music, social activities,
literature and various other day to day activities.
Victor Moscoso was a trained designer in
the psychedelic movement, one of his techniques was to reduce a photograph to
its most essential shapes, Art Nouveau inspired curvilinear shapes, illegible
hand-drawn type and intense optical vibration which was inspired by the Pop art
movement. Moscoso applied what he had
learned about the colour theory and
turned it upside thereby creating colour discord by colliding up colours
of similar intensity next to one another. Moscoso had designer over 60 concert
posters within eight months.
Peter Max was another influential designer
of the psychedelic movement; Peter Max used softer colours and more accessible
images, simple outlines illustrations which were often gave a comic book feel
to his work, however his ideas were very inspiration he also rejected most of
the anti-establishment values of youth culture and focused on softer ideas.
Reference
Anon, 1960-1975 sixties’ Psychedelia [online]
available at: http://gds.parkland.edu/gds/!lectures/history/1960/psychedelia.html
[accessed 17th December 2013]
Renee T. 2011. Psychedelic 60s [Online],
available at: http://visualartsdepartment.wordpress.com/psychedelic-60s/
[accessed 17th December 2013]
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