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sawcutmill
06-05-2008, 05:59 AM
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-kelley4-2008jun04,0,3039025.story
sawcutmill
06-06-2008, 05:22 AM
He designed the famous "Skeletons an Roses" poster for the Grateful Dead's album.
TC
06-06-2008, 03:54 PM
Amazing: a pinch of art nouveau, some day-glo ink, a gifted eye for composition, voila! A whole new genre that's still popular 40+ years later. In junior high school every notebook I had was decorated with my efforts at copying that style, but day-glo paint and inks were hard to come by and expensive then; I can still remember the smell of some fluorescent "cerise" red spray paint I used on a mobile I'd made. Whenever I see really good graffitti I can't help but think of Kelly and his contemporaries. That Grateful Dead logo is truly an icon.

Tim