Graphics Reference
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reader to carefully examine the posters to identify film title and relevant credits.
Figure 42. Complexity in film posters.
In the 1960s, visual communications design evident in film/event posters and album covers
frequently featured high levels of visual complexity as well as psychedelic colours. The
combination of visual complexity and psychedelic colour was used strategically to target
a particular audience and also to act as a communication barrier to those in the 'Establish-
ment', a social group considered antithetical to the hippie community. Posters such as those
designed by Wes Wilson for the Fillmore Auditorium are typical of graphic design of this
era.
