Bring Back the Blacklight

When I was a kid, I remember visiting my considerably older and deftly cool hippie cousins. The truth was, I  didn’t really care about visiting them, I was far more fascinated with their psychedlic display of blacklight posters and whether or not they had added any new ones to the collection since my last visit. I was intrigued by the fuzzy textures and the fact that those images sprang  to life with the flick of a switch. Now I realize it was probably  the closest thing to acid my impressionable mind could experience without actually sampling the candy.

Now that the swinging 60s and 70s are en vogue again, I thought what better way to resurrect the temptation of blacklight art than to highlight some really cool vintage and retro posters, which, thankfully you can still get today. While the true vintage ones aren’t cheap, they certainly do liven up a room!

Lead Pipe Posters has a stash of vintage posters that range from old rock posters to hippie themes like the “Mother Love” poster below, priced at $125 and created in 1971.

or the groovy “Butterfly” illustrated poster below, which sells for $45.