Welcome Cosmic Visitors
Poster
late 1960s (designed)
late 1960s (designed)
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This poster was designed by Nigel Waymouth and Michael English, together known as design duo Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. They created psychedelic posters for many of the English bands of the late 1960s and also designed for concerts held at the UFO Club and Saville Theatre, and for underground magazine Oz. Their artistic influences combined the melting rainbow colours of LSD visions with the decorative and eroticised designs of Art Nouveau, Indian and East Asian interests 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 | Welcome Cosmic Visitors (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Screen print on paper. |
| Brief description | 'Welcome Cosmic Visitors' poster, designed by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, late 1960s. Nigel Waymouth collection |
| Physical description | Screenprinted poster with gradient from left to right of orange to fluorescent yellow. Central background image of a UFO with person below, and an astrological zodiac wheel in blue, with typography below. Letters on either side of the central image spell the title. |
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| Credit line | Given by Nigel Waymouth |
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| Summary | This poster was designed by Nigel Waymouth and Michael English, together known as design duo Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. They created psychedelic posters for many of the English bands of the late 1960s and also designed for concerts held at the UFO Club and Saville Theatre, and for underground magazine Oz. Their artistic influences combined the melting rainbow colours of LSD visions with the decorative and eroticised designs of Art Nouveau, Indian and East Asian interests 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. |
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| Accession number | S.69-1978 |
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| Record created | February 22, 2010 |
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