Hapshash and the Coloured Coat with the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids
Poster
1967 (designed)
1967 (designed)
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This poster and record cover was designed by design duo Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, for their first music album Hapshash and the Coloured Coat featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids. 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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| Parts | This object consists of 4 parts.
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| Title | Hapshash and the Coloured Coat with the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Screen print on paper; Paper, polythene and glue; Red vinyl, offset lithography on paper, glue. |
| Brief description | Psychedelic poster advertising an album by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat with the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids, with the album, both designed by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, 1967. Michael English collection |
| Physical description | S.37-1978 (poster) Printed poster. Psychedelic poster,with background of night sky gradating into silver. A pegasus with chariot in lower half, in gradient of yellow to orange, with four people on chariot. Title of band near top. S.37A-1978 (record covers) Cardboard record sleeve with gloss coating. Illustration on front has a yellowish hue featuring a face with glowing rays coming from it, and clouds and cartoonish people around the edges. Back cover is similar image, in slightly redder colours. Black border on both sides with typography on front with title, and song titles on back. S.37B-1978 (record covers) White square paper sleeve for protecting record inside carboard case. Central circle has transparent polythene to enable viewing of record inside without removing from sleeve. S.37C-1978 (phonograph records) Red vinyl circular 12" record, with black circular labels in middle printed with typography. |
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| Production type | Artist's proof |
| Credit line | Given by Michael English |
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| Summary | This poster and record cover was designed by design duo Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, for their first music album Hapshash and the Coloured Coat featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids. 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.37&C-1978 |
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| Record created | February 23, 2010 |
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