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First Year (IDEA Grad 2025) Students Explore Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco Designers with Psychedelic Album Cover Designs

In First Year Survey and Principles of Design, there is often a project to parallel the design movement studied. As part of an exercise to understand the "psychedelic" movement, which began in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco in the mid 1960’s and had an effect, not just on music, but also on many aspects of popular culture, the students created an album cover to reflect the spirit and aesthetic of the genre.

Shown above: “Pathé” by Stacy Zhang.

Here are a few 60s album cover projects from IDES 142 Survey and Principles of Design II with Vida Jurcic.