At the beginning of the 1970’s, Barbara became an art director at Scanlan’s Monthly magazine, a controversial and short-lived San Francisco counter-culture publication. It was strongly anti-Nixonian and shut down after only eight issues after being boycotted by printers and undergoing an FBI investigation for “un-American” activities. It was one of several publications to feature Hunter Thompson’s early “gonzo” journalism, most notably his famous article, “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.” Design-wise, Scanlan’s Monthly featured spacious, Swiss-influenced layouts with lots of Helvetica, shockingly different from most other left-wing publications of the day.
