In the mid- to late 1980s rave culture developed. It influenced music,design, art, drugs, fashion, language and even the law. Emerging in theUSA, it was refined in the UK by people who wanted to dance, partyand express themselves in terms of art, music and culture. Originatingin small, sweaty clubs and growing into enormous Raves with tens ofthousands of people, 'house' music and ecstasy were the driving forcesbehind what turned into a global phenomenon. Events that started assecretive nights in underground clubs, with word-of-mouth advertisinggrew from one-off take-overs of unusual venues into huge open landbasedevents. Pager and telephonic communication became themedium of message-passing, and flyers were key to it all: informing theright people about the right place at the right time. Chelsea Berlin wasthere 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 theflyers that were handed out freely (or sometimes privately) to informpartygoers of the next venue. Flyer design became an artform, and thisbook contains hundreds of the most significant and rare examples fromChelsea's huge collection.Together with personal reminiscences and quotes from famous,infamous and not-so-famous attendees, Rave Art paints a vivid pictureof what is probably the last significant youth culture movement ofmodern times.