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Lee Conklin is best known for the posters he created for Bill Graham’s rock and roll concert venue, the Fillmore West. Every poster artist in San Francisco wanted to work for Graham, so in February 1968, Conklin decided to try his luck and took a portfolio of his drawings into Graham’s office. Thankfully for Conklin, Graham liked his work, which uniquely takes bizarreness to an extreme, and gave him the job. His work builds upon the Fillmore’s poster artists before him, creating designs that are weird, mind-bending, and heavily influenced by his experiences with psychedelic drugs.Label Type
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Following in the footsteps of Wes Wilson, Conklin also favored typography that takes a few minutes to sort out. One could even say that Conklin’s lettering is more indecipherable than Wilson’s. In this poster, the band names and dates are spelled out with gray, tangled limbs.