Speaking of blacklight posters from the 1970s, Jim Leftwich recently came across his beautiful Peter Max inspired 3-ring binder.
When I was back at my family farm in Missouri this past September, following a circuitous 3,000 mile motorcycle ride through the Southwest from my home in Palo Alto, California, I spent some time going through old things. Among the things that still survive is this magnificently mod 3-ring binder, which my best guess is from around the third or fourth grade, which would put it from somewhere between 1969 and 1971.
Like many things of its era, it's clearly aesthetically inspired by the work of Peter Max, but it also has that great 'filled-in-with-colored-markers' look that was also popular at the time. I myself was a marker fiend, and would spend hours drawing outlines in black and then coloring them like this. Do you remember those awesome 'El Marko" markers? And the sets of finer-tipped colored markers that were becoming very prevalent in the late 1960s and early 1970s – all great!
