So we made shirts for the participating visual artists and staff and liked them so much we made a few extra to sell at the general merch booth. Men or Women’s they have a 1943 roadster bicycle blasting off in the bottom left hand corner of the front of the shirt. Leaving in it’s wake is a wrap around to the back print of fractaling LSD molecules.
The meaning behind all this. In 1943 Albert Hoffman discovered LSD 25 while working in his lab. Assuming the compound to be useless for what he was trying to create, he decided to re-examine it on its own merits after a “trippy” experience in which he had absorbed a bit through his skin. So on a spring day in 1943 Hoffman ingested 250 mics of pure LSD (this is an enormous dosage for LSD but for most drugs considered a very low dosage). Once the drug kicked in, Hoffman freaked out a bit, jumped on his BICYCLE and quickly rode home. This shirt design is a graphic representation of that bike ride.
1943 Roadster BICYCLE shirt front
LSD Fractal BICYCLE shirt back
to read more about this: Albert Hoffman’s Bike Ride
