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David Edward Byrd (April 4, 1941 – February 3, 2025) was an American graphic artist, designer, illustrator, and painter. Many of his designs are considered to have helped define the look of rock and roll music starting in the 1960s.[1] He was most well known for his poster designs, including his rock posters for the Fillmore East as well as his Broadway theatre posters.
Rock posters
[edit]In 1968, a number of college classmates (including Joshua White of Joshua Light Show) encouraged rock promoter Bill Graham to hire Byrd to create posters for the newly opened Fillmore East Ballroom in Manhattan's East Village. Byrd was reportedly hired on the spot after showing his portfolio to Bill Graham[3] and signed on as the exclusive poster and program designer, beginning with a poster for the upcoming Traffic event. In the period 1968 to 1973, he and Fantasy Unlimited created posters for Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Traffic, and Bill Graham favorite the Grateful Dead. The poster that Byrd created for Bill Graham's Fillmore East, for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was voted #8 in the Top 25 Rock Posters by Billboard Magazine.[4] Byrd also created the poster for The Rolling Stones American Tour 1969. When the four members of the rock band KISS released individual solo albums in 1978, Byrd was hired to create an individual poster for each album, designed in such a way so they all could be hung together as a mural.[5] Byrd worked with The Who for their rock opera Tommy, designing the poster for the band's 1971 performance at the Metropolitan Opera House. Byrd also illustrated the cover of the 1974 album Sally Can't Dance by Lou Reed.[2]
Byrd designed posters for notable stage musicals including Follies, Godspell, The Robber Bridegroom, The Grand Tour, The Survival of St. Joan, Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Shop of Horrors, and others.[2]
Move to Los Angeles - Van Halen, Warner Bros.
Accolades and awards
[edit]In 1973, Byrd along with several other prominent illustrators, received a Grammy Award for the album packaging of the London Philharmonic Orchestra version of Tommy by the Who.
In 2007, the Ringling College of Art and Design presented a retrospective of Byrd's work.[13]
Byrd's autobiography POSTER CHILD: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd, written with co-author Robert von Goeben, was released in 2023 by Abrams Books.
大衛愛德華伯德去世，享年 83 歲，其海報捕捉了搖滾樂的能量
他為吉米·亨德里克斯、The Who 樂隊等設計的作品體現了迷幻時代的精神。他也為《Godspell》等舞台劇創作了圖像。David Edward Byrd, Whose Posters Captured Rock’s Energy, Dies at 83
His designs for Jimi Hendrix, the Who and others embodied the spirit of the psychedelic era. He also created images for stage shows like “Godspell.”
For a concert there that year by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mr. Byrd rendered the guitar wizard’s hair in a field of circles, which blended with the explosive hairstyles of his bandmates, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell.在當年吉米·亨德里克斯體驗樂隊 (Jimi Hendrix Experience) 在那裡舉辦的一場音樂會上，伯德先生將這位吉他奇才的頭髮畫成了一個圓圈，與他的樂隊成員諾埃爾·雷丁 (Noel Redding) 和米奇·米切爾 (Mitch Mitchell) 的爆炸性髮型融為一體。
圖片為吉米亨德里克斯體驗 (Jimi Hendrix Experience) 的海報黑白草圖，旁邊是最終的彩色海報。兩幅畫的中心都是亨德里克斯的臉。
1968 年，在吉米·亨德里克斯體驗樂隊 (Jimi Hendrix Experience) 在菲爾莫爾東區舉辦的一場演唱會上，大衛·愛德華·伯德 (David Edward Byrd) 將這位吉他奇才的頭髮畫成了一個圓圈，與他的樂隊成員諾埃爾·雷丁 (Noel Redding) 和米奇·米切爾 (Mitch Mitchell) 圖片為羅伯特·伯德 (David Mitchell) 設計。 (Robert von Goeben) 的「海報兒童：大衛‧愛德華‧伯德的迷幻藝術與彩色人生」；最終海報，Bill Graham Archives, LLC
《Follies》海報的完成版，主要以藍色和橘色為主。
在海報的最終版本中，女人的超現實主義頭飾上寫著演出的名稱，周圍環繞著星星。
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