Psychedelic movement 1

This movement began at the middle 60s and when it began it really had impact on everything, especially music and culture. Everything changed when this type of style came along. They called it psychedelic by the drugs that were everywhere at that time. 

           

Using of the drugs was very popular at the time, everybody were using them, especially young people. That was sort of a trend which became a way of inspiration to graphic design. Because of the using them and knowing how you feel under them the posters which were created were trying to came back that feeling without drugs. To make you feeling of tripping out by just looking at them. To acknowledge that they were using curvilinear shapes, hand-drawn types, and intense color vibration which was mainly inspired by the pop art movement.

The best known by his psychedelic posters is Wes Wilson. He designed for Bill Graham and The Fillmore in San Francisco and invented a style now well known to everybody, related with the peace movement. In his designs he made his type like melting or moving.

References:

Psychedelic 60s | Graphic Design History. 2014. Psychedelic 60s | Graphic Design History. [ONLINE] Available at:http://visualartsdepartment.wordpress.com/psychedelic-60s/. [Accessed 8 March 2014].

VIctor Moscoso 1

Although Victor Moscoso is an academically trained graphic designer he became famous by doing everything opposite how he was trained. They taught him about the colors and he just turned them in opposite. His posters were  full with vivid colors, a bit erotical and evocative. He is one of the most important and influenced graphic designer in psychedelia movement.

                                  
                                                      

 He made hand made font, photo collage, and created new portraying psychadelic consciousness.
In some of his designs you had to star into the image and try to see the dazzling effect contrasting colour and intense patterns. That was latter called "slow read" posters. Although his designs are completely different from anything that had been made before i still get impressions of art nouveau by looking at the shapes in his posters.

                

                 

References:

Psychedelic Poster Art: Victor Moscoso | transpersonalspirit. 2014.Psychedelic Poster Art: Victor Moscoso | transpersonalspirit. [ONLINE] Available at: http://transpersonalspirit.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/psychedelic-poster-art-victor-moscoso/. [Accessed 8 March 2014].

Victor Moscoso | Biography | AllMusic. 2014. Victor Moscoso | Biography | AllMusic. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/victor-moscoso-mn0001815396. [Accessed 8 March 2014].

Peter Max 1

Pop culture icon and a famous graphic designer, Peter Max had an unique innovative way of contributing to the graphic design industry.

 His designs were fulfilled with bold colors, uplifting images and artistic diversity. His work was very well accepted and make an inspiration for a lot of people.

He was working with a lot of famous and important people at the time, such as U. S Presidents. He painted six of them and painted out the Lady Liberty. His book had become on of the best-selling art books ever. His big works were for the Airlines companies.

He put the art installation of the Boeing 777 jet, and his design were seen by people everywhere. As well, he put the installation at the 600 ft stage dor the Woodstock Music Festival, and giant mural for the Winter Olympics and the 10-ft gutars for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. His work is full of color, organisation and geometric shapes.

        

References:

Peter Max Biography. 2014. Peter Max Biography. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.petermax.com/bio.html. [Accessed 9 March 2014].

Punk 1

Punk movement is so much known in the world by the music, the way of dressing and the by the typefaces they were using then. So innovative, nothing like that ever existed before. First it looked like a rebellion of youth but later on it was accepted by the people. People in this time wanted to break the boundaries and not to be struggled with the restriction of the Modernism. They were created a lot of DIY stuffs.

        
             
Pioneers of this movement are the Sex Pistols. Their behaviour and the way of dressing established and announced the way of Punk. With them started a new era of freedom. Jamie Reid- student who developed unique style of his own represented them. He was making collaged typography with random notes. He would just cut any letter that he liked in the magazines, made collage of them and photograph them. He invented a new style of playing with posters and broke the boundaries of grids. Everything what he did was accepted by something non appropriate, shocking but that's what put him in the important place of the history of graphic design.

       

One of the important designer is Barney Bubbles.
With this movement connected with the arrival of the Apple mac started a new era of creating so called ''ugly'' design.

References:

How Punk changed Graphic Design | Type Tasting. 2014. How Punk changed Graphic Design | Type Tasting. [ONLINE] Available at:http://typetastingnews.com/2013/10/24/how-punk-changed-graphic-design/. [Accessed 9 March 2014].

Colin Fulcher aka Barney Bubbles 1

Barney Bubbles was the significant designer at the late '60s. Through his obsession with art at music he was begin found while he was designing underground magazines by Hawkiwnd. He was doing everything for the band, and he was doing it very well. But he was always thinking about his works that they are not good, he was such a perfectionist in every single way.

 His works was either full of color or filled with black and white. He was working in some psychedelic light shows. Some people were telling about him that he was working so hard on every single design, they almost never saw him sleeping. All of his inspiration was coming through drugs, drinking and going to lone expeditions.





Through his life he challenged himself in some other fields, like, pop videos, recording etc. As long as he though that drugs and drinking and that kind of lifestyle made him what he was he was doing it, but that thing made him into the breakdown and later he committed suicide... That was such a shame for this great artist! He would create much more revolutionary pieces and he will move the boundaries even much more than he did.

References:

Barney Bubbles, Master Of The Universe. 2014. Barney Bubbles, Master Of The Universe. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.starfarer.net/brnybbls.html. [Accessed 9 March 2014].

Barney Bubbles: artist and designer. 2014. Barney Bubbles: artist and designer. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/20/barney-bubbles-artist-and-designer/. [Accessed 9 March 2014].

Barney Bubbles. 2014. Barney Bubbles. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Barney_Bubbles.html. [Accessed 9 March 2014].

Postmodernism 1

The difference between Modernism and Postmodernism is mainly that modernism as a movement tried to change the world, to create a new, better one, but postmodernism is totally opposite thing- try to accept world as it is. The postmodernism is not supporting the way the modernism movement taught people. But in some way a lot of things changed since the modernism movement, and the most important one is that everything became more easier to produce. Before it will take ages to produce some typeface whilst when postmodernism movement came it will take a less more time to do it. One of the most influential designers of this movement is David Carson.

The postmodernism had some interesting aspects. One of them is the concept of deconstruction. It was first exploaded by Jacques Derrida.

This period brought with it a lot of experimentation with architecture, fashion, graphic design, furniture etc. From the architectural aspect of experimentation it was used a lot of modern geometry. The attitude of this period was the subversive nature. One sentence was not following when it is about creating furniture, and it is the rule from the Bauhaus that Form most follow function. They were playing with everything and people are calling this period, period of funny design and breaking the rules period. Some of the influences are coming from the designers of the Punk movement, some were inspired by the torn paper collage approach, but most of them were following strict shapes of the geometry.



               

References:

Graphic Design History | Postmodern. 2014. Graphic Design History | Postmodern. [ONLINE] Available at:http://gds.parkland.edu/gds/!lectures/history/1975/postmodern.html. [Accessed 8 March 2014].

Postmodern Graphic Design | AG's ARTIN Design Blog. 2014. Postmodern Graphic Design | AG's ARTIN Design Blog. [ONLINE] Available at:http://ha065.wordpress.com/gamswen/postmodern-graphic-design/. [Accessed 8 March 2014].

Wolfgang Weingart 1

Wolfgang Weingart is the designer who mastered himself in typography and like that make a lot of contributions to the graphic design world.

Weingard through his life experimented a lot with typography. At first he went to the abstract type patterns almost to the absurd. Later on when he developed his style his typography came out tangible esthetic. He was master at layering type of tinted panels. He was respecting and keep it to the rules of Swiss  typography, but he wanted to experiment with something new. The only way for him to break the rules was to know them.
 With typography he learned all about photo-lithography, and how to use everything related to that. He always want to learn something more and take more from his life. He was teacher and he taught his student in that way- knowledge and imagination can and should work together. His work with strict lines and clear typography really amaze me. I like when everything is in order, complementary and sharp. I am getting a lot of inspirations by looking at his using it.

References:

 AIGA | Wolfgang Weingart . 2014. AIGA | Wolfgang Weingart . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.aiga.org/medalist-wolfgang-weingart/. [Accessed 8 March 2014].

Wolfgang Weingart. 2014. Wolfgang Weingart. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www2.palomar.edu/users/gkelley/Weingart.html. [Accessed 8 March 2014].