Rave Art

Flyers, invitations and membership cards

Chelsea Louise Berlin, Mark Moore

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English

Welbeck
05 January 2021

Graphic design; Electronic music; Social & cultural history

In the mid- to late 1980s, rave culture developed. It influenced music, design, art, drugs, fashion, language and even the law. Originally emerging in the USA, it was refined in the UK by people who wanted to dance, party and express themselves in terms of art and music. It started in in small, sweaty clubs but such was the popularity that soon enormous Raves, with tens of thousands of people, were common.

'House' music and illegal drug ecstasy were the driving forces behind what turned into a global phenomenon. Events that started as secretive nights in underground clubs, with word-of-mouth advertising grew from one-off take-overs of unusual venues into huge open land-based events. Pager and telephonic communication became the medium of message-passing, and flyers were key to it all: informing the right people about the right place at the right time. Chelsea Berlin was there from the beginning, attending many of the now legendary events, from Club Shoom to Energy and beyond.

In Rave Art, the whole exciting movement is documented through the flyers that were handed out freely (often privately) to inform partygoers of the next venue. Flyer design became an artform, and this book contains hundreds of the most significant and rare examples from Chelsea's huge collection.

Together with personal reminiscences and quotes from famous, infamous and not-so-famous attendees, Rave Art paints a vivid picture of what is probably the last significant youth culture movement of modern times.

By: Chelsea Louise Berlin
Foreword by: Mark Moore
Imprint: Welbeck
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Updated and expanded
Dimensions: Height: 188mm, Width: 242mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9781787394988
ISBN 10: 1787394980
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 05 January 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chelsea Louise Berlin studied art and design at Chelsea School of Art and started a company in the mid-1980s, producing hand-printed and painted t-shirts, paintings and banners. She has exhibited paintings, sculptures, furniture and photography and was involved in interior design, window dressing and prop making. She is custodian of her 'Berlin Collection', which comprises thousands of items of ephemera and collectables from the 1980s onwards, including nightclub and rave flyers, VIP cards and memberships, postcards, tart cards, magazines and film posters. Chelsea lives and works in London.