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William Morris was a leading member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He is best known for his pattern designs, particularly on fabrics and wallpapers. His vision in linking art to industry by applying the values of fine art to the production of commercial design was a key stage in the evolution of design as we know it today.
William Morris was an artist, designer, printer, typographer, bookbinder, craftsman, poet, writer and champion of socialist ideals. He believed that a designer should have a working knowledge of any media that he used and as a result he spent a lot of time teaching himself a wide variety of techniques. Like many designers of his time, Morris was skilled in a wide range of arts and crafts. For example, although he is famous for his wallpaper designs, he also founded the Kelmscott Press which published high quality hand bound books and was very influential in the revival of the private press.
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The Industrial Revolution
Even though Tennel was not in favor for print, his work did go to print, Alice adventures in wonderland first print ran for 2,000 was shelved and was instantly a best seller. ( not only for the story but the well known for the illustration that Tennel had created)
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Sir John Tennel’s Pen and ink work created late 1800′s.
He contributed to 2 Alice in wonderland books (Alice in wonderland 1865 & through the looking glass and what Alice found 1871) - and was always well known for is illustrations in fact he was knighted sir for it.
He was influenced by the Gothic revival movement and used traditional techniques even though the industrial revolution had crept into the British lives, people still had the appreciated and favored older techniques.
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The Beatles- Yellow Submarine album
The yellow submarine album contains many characteristics and designs which are psychedelic and have been inspired by other styles. The first characteristic is the clothing of the Beatles group. Their clothing has a hippy style. Throughout the cover one can also see a lot of surrealist designs. There are a few designs which resemble designs which are from the style of Art Nouveau. The title of the album is inspired by Op art because it is optically illusion. The colours which are seen in the design of this album are fluorescent. These colours are used to resemble the effects of LSD or other similar drugs.
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Psychedelia also had it’s effects on the music industry. The songs were written in a way to be poetic, mystical or visionary so that the listener would embark in a journey similar to the effects of LSD.
The first time ‘psychedelic rock’ was used was when a band called ‘13th Floor Elevators’ used it on their business cards.
These effects of psychedelia were also seen in poster and album covers of many rock bands of the time. Albums were designed using vivid, flashy colors, strong contrasts and lots of elements to reflect the narcotic visions of LSD. These albums were a reflection of the music which inside of that particular album. The designs of the albums were an important aspect of the trippy journey the rock bands wanted to convey to the listener.
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The term psychedelic was invented by a British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond in 1957. He wanted to find a word which describes the mind altering effects of chemicals such as LSD.
The Psychedelia movement originated from a hippy culture in the mid 1960’s and it had effects on music and other parts of pop culture such as fashion, music, art, literature and so on.
In the 60s there were a lot of problems including the fight for the civil rights, women rights and the war in Vietnam.
Psychedelia is inspired by Art Nouveau, Vienna Secession, and Surrealism. Characteristics like kaleidoscopic and spiral patterns, bright colours, extreme detail and groovy typography which were used by the art movements mentioned before can be seen in the psychedelic art. Posters of rock bands of the time tried to express the feeling of tripping out.
Other influences which influenced were OP art and Pop art.
Op art is abbreviation of Optical art which is a style that uses geometrical shapes, lines and colours juxtapositions to create an optical illusion and the viewer will think that the work of art is moving or vibrating.
Pop art was an artistic movement that emerged in the 1950s. Pop art used techniques of mass production ad emphasized the kitschy elements of popular culture so it could show that it is a protest against the elitist art culture and the seriousness that was involved with. It promoted objects unappreciated objects in the intention to make art more meaningful for people and to target a larger audience. Pop Art was a popular technique which was used in psychedelic designs. Although psychedelia was followed by a lot of people critics saw pop art vulgar.Pop art in psychedelia was used on objects of mass reproduction, such as silk-screening.
Andy Warhol was a famous American artist who used industrial silkscreen process to paint such commercial objects. Warhol brought together elements of sign painting and commercial art in his work, they became renowned for erasing the boundaries between low and high culture.
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Old psychedelic posters found online by Luke Parnis.
To show the characteristic of psychedelic art like use of opposite colors at the same time ,Use of saturated colors the typography was twisted and melted into shapes which illegible and the art sometimes had fractal and paisley patterns that looked like flower patterns.
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Psychedelic albums of today by Luke Parnis,They are all psychedelic metal/rocks bands of this era, all copy the old style. VA - A Psych Tribute to the Doors (2014) is a tribute for the old band the Doors.
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Psychedelia - Beatles Albums
The bottom album is of an early Beatles psychedelic transition which features photography and curved text which is warped. The second album is a masterpiece which heavily influenced how we see albums today. The cover influences pop design and psychedelia regarding the imagery.
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Psychedelia - Album Covers of The Past
From My Journeys in car boot sales I acquired various albums of certain artists mainly the Beatles. These album covers all have a history regarding album cover design. Most importantly but the covers of the Beatles which were such an influential band and I thought to include them in this fieldwork research. I acquired these albums from the car boot sale in Birgu
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Psychadelia- Poster of Party
The poster of the party also bears a resemblence to old psychadelic posters for example the usage of a female character. The curves which create the design and layout and the text which is more illegible but still is heavily inspired by the psychedelic text which is curved but in this situation it is added to a certain letter only.
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Pyschadelia - Party Enviroment
More interesting was the location of these parties. Located in the woods near nature and heavily decorated with garish designs and lighting and large designs of womens faces which related to art nouveau. Also the curvature of the decorations which bare a resemblence. One cannot also disregared the heavy influences of lsd to these decorations
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