Byrd, who did posters for Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and “Godspell,” did the original poster for Woodstock, though fate ultimately conspired to shelf it.

Arnold Skolnick, designer of renowned Woodstock poster, dies at 85. Using paper cutouts, he designed the bird-on-a-guitar image that symbolized the 1969 music festival in upstate New York.

Byrd, who did posters for Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and "Godspell," did the original poster for Woodstock, though fate ultimately conspired to shelf it.

Arnold Skolnick in 2021, discussing plans to reprint the poster he designed for the Woodstock festival in 1969. “It was just another job,” he recalled, “but it became famous.” ...

Skolnick got the Woodstock job through John Morris, the festival producer hired to obtain big-name acts, and designed the poster in three days with very few instructions.

When John Kehoe visited Arnold Skolnick's home in the Berkshires of Massachusetts last winter it wasn't with the intent of finding the artwork that would become the first show in Kehoe's new ...

In his new book, "The Road to Woodstock," Michael Lang, one of the four festival promoters, takes credit for the logo and motto. "I gave Arnold the copy and told him the main message was 'three ...

Woodstock promised three days of peace, and music. Doesn’t that sound pretty good right about now? At one of the shops in town, I bought a small sticker of the Woodstock poster.

EASTHAMPTON — Fifty years ago, freelance artist and designer Arnold Skolnick got a request: Make a poster for the Woodstock Music & Art Fair.For Skolnick, the request was “just another job ...

Byrd, who did posters for Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and "Godspell," did the original poster for Woodstock, though fate ultimately conspired to shelf it.