Lavender Vision - Volume 1, Issue 2
Date
Credits
- Roz Payne Creator
Format
- Zine 46
Locations Made
- United States 832
- Massachusetts 49
- Cambridge
Lavender Vision was an underground zine produced in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1970 to 1971; the publication advocated for LGBTQ+ rights, specifically designed for a female, lesbian audience. The magazine's publication resulted from a surge in gay rights activism following the Stonewall rebellion.
Lavender Vision's aesthetic ties together two design movements: the nouveau-inspired visual cues of hippie counterculture and the beginnings of the grungy, collaged punk era. The zine's title, rendered in closely-spaced bubble letters, is reminiscent of the psychedelic type seen on posters and record covers during the 50s and 60s. Lavender Vision's layouts, featuring experimental compositions and overlapping images, echoed the scrappy, Xerographic style of design used by disillusioned youths at the height of the punk movement.
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