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paul rand
Paul rand started designing logos around the 1960s -
Psychedelic rock posters
These posters where part of the hippie movement of the 60s. -
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The Beatles
This extremely popular band was reaching its end, during the 1970s -
The assassination of Martin Luther King
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The assassination of John F Kennedy
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2001 a space Odyssey movie
This movie was a prediction of what life would be like in 2001, people at the time thought that the space race would continue and influence everything. -
Moon landing
This was a very anticipated event, and there are many theory s about the land itself and the procedure of getting to the moon, however it started a wave of space related ideas, art, media and films. -
Woodstock festival
This was an enormous festival in new York, where bands like the who and Jimmie Hendrix played. More than 400,000 people showed up and dew to the use of drugs the event was surprisingly calm. -
Stylophone
This was a musical instrument that sounds very metallic and can sound good if played properly. -
April Greiman
April Greiman was a graphic designer in the 1970s who worked with patterns and color. -
Atari
Atari was a gaming company that developed games and arcade consoles, like PAC man and asteroids. -
The first mobile phone
At first the mobile phone was only used by business men, only when it got smaller and more refined would it become globally popular. -
Carrie
Stephen king released this book, that would then go on to become a horror movie. -
Jaws
Jaws is a popular drama mystery flm by Stephen Spielberg. -
The first star wars movie
This syfy film is about the idea of alien life being a positive thing, with humans living among them on different planets. This film would become extremely popular and gain many sequels, pr-equals, spin-offs and inspire many other films and products. -
Punk- Jaime Reid
Jamie reid was at the start of the punk movement with his album covers for 'the sex pistols'. This artwork was very eye catching and anti-establishment. -
War of the worlds music was released
This music was inspired by the idea of alien life and the idea that they could come to earth and take over, however the artwork was not clean and polished like the other art inspired by space at the time, it was more earthy and hand drawn further cementing the idea of an alien takeover. -
The shining
The shining was a very popular horror film adapted from the book of the same name by Stephen king. There are many theorys to do with this film and the imagery in it ,one of which is to do with the carpet,and how it was inspired by the Apollo launchpad. -
Electric light orchestra
ELO's music and album art was heavily inspired by the space race, and as a result the art is very colorful and clean, while the music is spacey as they used new metallic instruments to make sound. -
PAC man
this was a very popular arcade game that many kids played,the popularity, style and colors inspired a range of different patterns and products . -
Nevile Brody
Nevile Brody was a graphic designer in the 1980s who worked a lot with type.
