{"id":254,"date":"2022-03-11T21:21:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/nargeshashempour\/?p=254"},"modified":"2022-03-11T21:21:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T21:21:02","slug":"wes-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/nargeshashempour\/2022\/03\/11\/wes-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Wilson\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wes Wilson (Robert Wesley Wilson) was born on July 15, 1937, in Sacramento, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/nargeshashempour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13301\/2022\/03\/Unknown-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/nargeshashempour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13301\/2022\/03\/Unknown-1.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/nargeshashempour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13301\/2022\/03\/Unknown-1-144x96.jpeg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wes Wilson, an American designer most known for developing and popularising the Psychedelic font, which appears to be melting or moving. Wes Wilson was well recognised for his work on Bill Graham&#8217;s posters in San Francisco. Along with Alton Kelley, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, and Stanley Mouse, Wes Wilson was considered one of &#8220;The Big Five&#8221; San Francisco poster painters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/nargeshashempour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13301\/2022\/03\/95.663_01_b02-Large-TIFF_4000-pixels-long-1-645x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259\" width=\"237\" height=\"425\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the melting and moving type Wes Willson has going on. It is really interesting how he mixes the visual design and types together.The use of colour and choosing themes are very interesting and cool too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/nargeshashempour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13301\/2022\/03\/unnamed-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-260\" width=\"241\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/nargeshashempour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13301\/2022\/03\/unnamed-2.jpg 357w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/nargeshashempour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13301\/2022\/03\/unnamed-2-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/nargeshashempour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13301\/2022\/03\/unnamed-2-67x96.jpg 67w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilson began receiving commissions in the middle of the 1960s, when the Haight-Ashbury movement raised demand for posters and handbills in the San Francisco area. &#8220;Are We Next?&#8221; was his first poster, which he released in 1965. Wilson developed, self-printed, and distributed the anti-Vietnam War protest poster, which featured a swastika imprinted with an American flag design. &#8220;I just put it out there to get people thinking about stuff,&#8221; Wilson explained. Chet Helms, a rock promoter, was so taken with the image that he asked Wilson to make handbills for Family Dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit: Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes Wilson (Robert Wesley Wilson) was born on July 15, 1937, in Sacramento, California. Wes Wilson, an American designer most known for developing and popularising the Psychedelic font, which appears to be melting or moving. Wes Wilson was well recognised for his work on Bill Graham&#8217;s posters in San Francisco. 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