Psychedelic Poster Art vs Vienna Secession Graphics
Psychedelic Poster Art was influenced by Vienna Secession Graphics — borrowed Alfred Roller's squeezed, space-filling Secession lettering.
Psychedelic Poster Art
The hallucinatory concert-poster style of 1960s San Francisco, built on vibrating complementary colors, melting hand-lettering you can barely read, and swirling Art Nouveau revival forms.
- Vibrating complementary colors placed edge to edge
- Melting, hand-drawn lettering bent to fill the composition
- Sinuous Art Nouveau and Vienna Secession revival curves
- Dense, all-over compositions with little empty space
- Deliberately challenging, near-illegible typography
Vienna Secession Graphics
The graphic output of the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte, marrying gridded geometric ornament to gilded, Klimt-era pattern, custom square lettering, and the near-square journal Ver Sacrum.
- Geometric gridded ornament and checkerboards
- Custom geometric display lettering
- Near-square Ver Sacrum format
- Gilded flat decorative pattern fields
- Generous, structured white space
At a glance
| Psychedelic Poster Art | Vienna Secession Graphics | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | c. 1966–1971 | 1897–1920 |
| Discipline | Graphic Design | Graphic Design |
| Region | United States | Austria |
| Family | Vernacular/Pop, Counterculture | Art Nouveau, Secession |
| Formal traits | hand-lettering, vibrating-color, art-nouveau-revival, dense-composition | geometric-ornament, custom-lettering, flat-color, gridded |
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