Psychedelic Hendrix Poster

While researching the Psychedelia design movement of the 1960's and early 1970's, I found this Jimmi Hendrix poster on google and it caught my attention because of it's 'psychedelic' design, the colours, typography and the two-colour image of Hendrix.

What I believe is most appealing is split-complementary use of colour (the orange complemented with the purple and aqua-blue). The poster was most probably aimed at the younger generation of the 60's and early 70's because it is relatable to the 'hippy' youth culture of the time. 

The typography is also interesting as it is in the psychedelic 'unreadable' style. It is made to be easily read and interesting for the youth, and hard to understand and confusing for the elderly. This is a characteristic of most psychedelic designs, which 'squeeze' text into the most abnormal shapes to make it difficult to read at first.

The use of the black border is nice as it 'breaks up' some of the colour and is more pleasing to the eye than the rest of the poster.

Overall the design is spontaneous and loud and it was because of this that attracted me to the piece.