{"id":33448,"date":"2013-12-03T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com?p=33448"},"modified":"2021-09-13T00:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T22:40:28","slug":"martin-sharp-sydneydelic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/en\/history-of-graphic-design\/martin-sharp-sydneydelic","title":{"rendered":"Martin Sharp, “sydneydelic”"},"content":{"rendered":"
The recent loss of australian graphic designer Martin Sharp (1942-2013), invites us to continue our series of articles on the great names in graphic design<\/a>. Here is a brief portrait of a graphic designer under LSD...<\/p>\n When some wanted to make revolution with their voices or their guitars, he armed himself with his pencils and brushes. It was the early'60s, and Kennedy wasn't an airport yet. It was at the heart of these \"Beatniks\" years that this young Australian graphic designer-illustrator created the sulphurous magazine \"Oz\" with Richard Neville and Richard Walsh. The articles dealt without taboos with topics such as drugs, homosexuality, police brutality, abortion, racism or the Vietnam War. The three collaborators will be invited to take a tour through the prison hut, following the publication of a cover deemed obscene.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
Sydneydelic<\/h2>\n