A companion piece with my dissertation in a visual form.

After my Graphics Arts Research Project, I knew I wanted to expand this subject, because Liverpool’s Psychedelic music scene is so strong and expansive throughout the decades, I wanted to show this in visual format. Aside from The Beatles, Liverpool’s psychedelic contribution to British music is vast, but unfortunately it’s not known in mainstream media.

I wanted to celebrate Liverpool’s rich modern musical culture and the revival it is experiencing; through the venues and nights to the various festivals and influences from abroad and home. As I’ve shown, Liverpool is highly connected, and highly influential.

I experimented with different styles at first; cosmic star charts and nebulas were one of the styles I experimented, but I decided to go in a simpler design direction and took influence from the LSD chemical structure and how they were connected together. This eventually led me to look at other chemical structures and how they’re organised, and by organising my mind map (the bands, venues, era colours etc) eventually a coherent mapping of the Liverpool Psychedelic story is shown – inspired by LSD.