Cosmic Visions
Poster
2000 (designed and printed)
2000 (designed and printed)
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This poster and artwork were designed by design duo Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, known as Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. In the late 1960s they created psychedelic posters for many of the English bands of the time, and decorated and advertised Nigel Waymouth's King's Road boutique, Granny Takes a Trip. They also designed for concerts held at UFO club and Saville Theatre, and for underground magazine Oz. Their influences came from the decorative and eroticised designs of Art Nouveau, combined with the melting rainbow colours of LSD visions and pop art inspirations from the post-war media; traces of Disney, horror movie monsters and comic book characters and can often be seen hiding amongst the images.
Object details
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| Title | Cosmic Visions (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Screenprint |
| Brief description | Screenprint. Poster for Cosmic Visions display held at the V&A Museum 5 October 2000-7 January 2001. Designed by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Nigel Waymouth and Michael English) and printed by Dennis King at San Francisco Art Lab. |
| Physical description | Poster with black background and rainbow-coloured text in mostly art nouveau style in gold, orange and pink. A central image consisting of that designed for a poster advertising a Jimi Hendrix show at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1967, in blue, pink and red on metallic gold background. Image of Jimi Hendrix on right in American Indian costume. In the left part of the background is a landscape, flying saucers, the Divine Eye, a dragon and floral and butterfly motifs in a spiral design. |
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| Object history | 'central image is the poster commissioned by Jimi Hendrix from Hapshash and the Coloured Coat on the occasion of his first appearance at the Fillmore Auditorium in 1967' from D King Gallery website |
| Historical context | Official exhibition poster |
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| Summary | This poster and artwork were designed by design duo Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, known as Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. In the late 1960s they created psychedelic posters for many of the English bands of the time, and decorated and advertised Nigel Waymouth's King's Road boutique, Granny Takes a Trip. They also designed for concerts held at UFO club and Saville Theatre, and for underground magazine Oz. Their influences came from the decorative and eroticised designs of Art Nouveau, combined with the melting rainbow colours of LSD visions and pop art inspirations from the post-war media; traces of Disney, horror movie monsters and comic book characters and can often be seen hiding amongst the images. |
| Associated object | E.1703-1991 (Source) |
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| Accession number | E.813-2014 |
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| Record created | August 21, 2013 |
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