Buy Granny Takes a Trip and Join the Brain Drain!
Poster
1968 (designed)
1968 (designed)
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This poster was designed by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, known together as design duo 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 the 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 | Buy Granny Takes a Trip and Join the Brain Drain! (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Offset lithography on paper |
| Brief description | Poster for shop Granny Takes a Trip. Michael English collection. |
| Physical description | Printed poster. Marbled background, with psychedelic airbrush image of a woman in lingerie eating a banana, on a background of many images of the front of a train, in a circle. At the bottom is an illustration of a girl in green coat with thought bubble and typography. Two small black and white animals are at the bottom right. |
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| Credit line | Given by Michael English |
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| Summary | This poster was designed by Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, known together as design duo 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 the 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. |
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| Accession number | S.48-1978 |
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| Record created | February 22, 2010 |
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