Believing in peace in the face of fear

February 24, 2022By LITTLE HIPPIE

This is one of the first images I created. It’s one of the designs with which I launched Little Hippie in early 2003, a year before I became a Grateful Dead licensee, back when my art was more about my beliefs than it was about music. ⁠ ⁠ The word hippie has a lot of … Read More

Grand Opening Weekend Little Hippie Brooklyn Brick & Mortar

August 17, 2021By LITTLE HIPPIE

Please join Little Hippie this weekend August 19-22 to celebrate the opening of our first brick & mortar shop!⁠ ⁠ Whether you’re coming to town to see Dead & Company at Citifield on August 20, or you’re a fellow New Yorker, we’d love to have you stop by our shop and see everything we’ve been … Read More

Strangers Stopping Strangers Podcast

November 25, 2016By Taylor Swope

Hey Little Hippie Tribe! If you’ve ever wanted to know more about how and why Taylor started Little Hippie, what it means to her, and what has inspired her along the way, we think you’ll enjoy this podcast episode of Strangers Stopping Strangers she recently recorded with Staci Smith. Podcast #19- Conversation with Taylor Swope- … Read More

Saved by Rock ‘n Roll

September 23, 2016By Taylor Swope

When I was twelve years old during the summer between 6th and 7th grade, I started sneaking out at night. I lived in a small town on the CT shoreline that was even smaller then, and my family lived in an old Colonial house with a big huge barn, both built in the mid 19th … Read More

15 years of Little Hippie at Bonnaroo

June 12, 2016By Taylor Swope

I’ll always remember the day the first Bonnaroo was announced.  It was not quite a year after I started going to festivals, and at the time a big festival was 10,000 people.  I had spent the summer prior documenting festival culture as a photographer, and of the 15 festivals I attended in 2001, almost all … Read More

The Making of Town Mountain’s Dead Session Album Art

October 28, 2015By Taylor Swope

In case you haven’t heard, Town Mountain are set to release renditions of two Grateful Dead Tunes to honor the Grateful Dead’s 50th Anniversary. Town Mountain recorded bluegrass versions of two of their favorite song performed by the Grateful Dead: “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” & “Big River” the album is out Friday, November 13, 2015. I was lucky enough … Read More

How Bill Gates informed my career as an… artist?!

September 30, 2015By Taylor Swope

You’re probably wondering, really? Bill Gates, artistic inspiration? That can’t be! Yes, it’s true. You read that right. Bill Gates was indeed one of my primary influences as a young artist. Allow me to explain. I finished college in December of 1998, a semester ahead of schedule. I had left high school a year early as … Read More

How I came to be a Grateful Dead licensee

July 17, 2015By Taylor Swope

popupshopWith the Fare Thee Well shows come and gone, I’m left reminiscing about how I got here in the first place.

In the summer of 2001, when I was wide eyed and ready to see the world, I set out on a mission to photograph music festival culture.

The previous fall I had been in Los Angeles working for a photographer where I met the people who would soon introduce me to the jamband world. That winter back at home in New York City, I went to shows at the Wetlands (RIP) every weekend, meeting lots of people and learning everything I could about festivals.