CALIFORNIA: DESIGNING FREEDOM

JOIN WHO YOU WANT

Since the founding of California, the freedom to create your own community has been considered essential to success and survival. From hippy communes to Facebook, this section examines tools that enable communities both on the ground and online. Exhibits include a geodesic dome, Sussman Prejza’s designs for the 1984 LA Olympics and documentation of the early Burning Man festivals.

Roaches MC Venice, motorcycle club vest, 2012

Posters designed by Facebook's Analog Research Lab, photo by Luke Hayes

Snapshots of the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles, 1984

Sussman-Prezja, Olympic graphic identity guidelines, 1984

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From 1960s counterculture to Silicon Valley’s tech revolution, see how California has changed your life.