May 2009
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Welcome to Taos Ink’s Summer of Love 2009...
Taos Ink is inviting area artists to create and submit inspired thematic poster designs to commemorate what will be an incredible flashback to the Summer of Love and a salute to Easy Rider (1969) which was written by Peter Fonda and directed by Taos’ own Dennis Hopper, both of whom starred in this counterculture film which captured the imagination of a generation. The winning poster will be...
Poster Contest Guidelines
Your entry in the Taos Ink Psychedelic Poster Contest is an agreement to adhere to these guidelines. Thanks and good luck!
Design guidelines:
1. Your design can be inspired by Easy Rider (1969), the era of the late 1960’s, Taos in the 1960’s or an iconic story or personal experience.
2. Your design should include the words 2009 Taos Summer of Love, but is not limited to these...
Psychedelic poster history: Peter Max and the...
Excerpted from “A History of Graphic Design”, Second Edition, by Philip B. Meggs, 1992, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY.
Some aspects of the psychedelic poster movement were used in the wildly popular poster art of New York designer Peter Max (b. 1937). In his series of posters during the late 1960s, the Art Nouveau qualities of psychedelic poster art were combined with more accessible images and...
Call for Entries! Announcing the Taos Ink 2009...
Time to put your flashbacks to work for you! Inviting all you local visual magicians to conjure psychedelic imagery for this far-out event while contributing to your brothers and sisters in the Taos art community. Commemorate the 2009 Taos Summer of Love Event by creating a poster in a style reminiscent of the late 1960s psychedelic era. The winning entry will be screen printed in a limited...
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Psychedelic poster history: Artistic Influences on...
Excerpted from “A History of Graphic Design”, Second Edition, by Philip B. Meggs, 1992, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY
The graphics movement that expressed this cultural climate drew from a number of resources: the flowing sinuous curves of Art Nouveau, the intense optical color vibration associated with the brief Op Art movement popularized by a Museum of Modern Art exhibition, and the recycling...
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where to spend the summer →
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How to Change the Way You Think in 13 Hours, Part...
Grab toothbrush, wallet, pillow, bag of apples and chips. Stuff 3 pairs of jeans, 3 t-shirts, socks, hoodie and mud boots into duffel bag, don’t bother to comb hair or forward phone. Take stack of jam band cd’s, sharpie, highlighter, map. Fill water bottle, leave the lights on at the house, lock front door. Toss gear in back of the car, get, start engine. Check compass. Head west. Take a...