{"id":184,"date":"2022-04-21T20:29:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/?p=184"},"modified":"2022-04-21T20:29:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:29:20","slug":"bonnie-mclean-women-in-psychadelic-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/2022\/04\/21\/bonnie-mclean-women-in-psychadelic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie McLean: Women in Psychadelic Design."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bonnie McLean with her work<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When thinking about the pioneers of the Psychedelic Design, it\u2019s often the male forefront that comes into people\u2019s mind, like Wes Wilson. Women designers during this era were less well-known, however, this didn\u2019t stop Bonnie McLean from standing out. She, later on, stepped into the \u2018Big Five\u2019 group in 1967. Before then, she was deeply immersed in the cultural scene just like the Big Five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McLean became the main designer for the Filmore West, where she created playful letterforms and patterns, like optical illusions. Most of the posters she made were in fact handmade and painted, a technique she believes, even today, to be essential. McLean heavily drew inspiration from the Art Nouveau and Medieval Gothic styles, like many others, but started to develop her own style through \u201celaborate plumes, curving letters and stoic faces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonnie McLean’s work<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

She was also heavily involved with the feminist movement in the 60s and used her design skills to communicate this as well. They took advantage of the cheap printing presses and mass-produced posters touching on progressive ideas. This provided a steppingstone for women during this era and inspire generations to follow: women have a space in any industry, despite many of them being male-dominated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bonnie_MacLean<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/20\/arts\/bonnie-maclean-dead.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/eyeondesign.aiga.org\/women-of-psychedelic-design\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When thinking about the pioneers of the Psychedelic Design, it\u2019s often the male forefront that comes into people\u2019s mind, like Wes Wilson. Women designers during this era were less well-known, however, this didn\u2019t stop Bonnie McLean from standing out. She, later on, stepped into the \u2018Big Five\u2019 group in 1967. Before then, she was deeply… Continue reading Bonnie McLean: Women in Psychadelic Design.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/angelicablanch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}