56 pages Text(s) by Jacaeber Kastor, Flick Ford, Norman Gosney, Stanley Moss Foreword by Robert Williams Designed by DiGanZi 28 x 21.5 cm Language: English Paperback Publisher: Blurring Books First edition of 1000 copies 2025
A time capsule from downtown New York’s underground, Lost in Space: New York City Weed Labels of the ‘80s gathers a rare collection of marijuana baggie insert labels created and circulated in the 1980s. Curated by artists, designers, and cannabis aficionados from the city’s creative scene, these prints turned the illicit trade of weed into a playground of visual wit and cultural commentary.
Mixing satire, pop-art aesthetics, and psychedelic humor, the labels mocked prohibition while celebrating the spirit of rebellion that fueled an entire generation of artists. With roots tracing back to Robert Williams’s agitprop designs of the 1960s and nurtured by the legendary Psychedelic Solution Gallery, this collection offers a glimpse into a time when even the smallest printed ephemera carried the charge of freedom, community, and mind expansion.
Lost in Space is both an art historical document and a love letter to the underground ingenuity of New York’s counterculture.
