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UFO Mark II

Poster
1967 (published)
Artist/Maker
Hapshash and the Coloured Coat (Design Studio)
Osiris Visions Ltd (publisher)
English, Michael (designer)
Weymouth, Nigel (designer)
Place of origin
London (published)

Colour screen-print poster advertising the club 'U.F.O. Mark II', London. Psychedelic design, a gold background with text in the bottom-right hand corner with venue details and 'ufo' lettered in pink and red swirling letters.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Entertainment & Leisure
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleUFO Mark II (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour screen print
Screen Printing
Brief description
Colour screen-print poster with a psychedelic design, advertising the club 'U.F.O. Mark II', London. Designed by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. Published by Osiris Visions Ltd, London, 1967.
Physical description
Colour screen-print poster advertising the club 'U.F.O. Mark II', London. Psychedelic design, a gold background with text in the bottom-right hand corner with venue details and 'ufo' lettered in pink and red swirling letters.
Dimensions
  • Height: 73.7cm
  • Width: 98.4cm
Dimensions taken from: Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'ufo' (In swirling letters, pink and red, across poster.)
  • 'ufo mk 2 / 31tottenham court rd.w.1. / 10.30pm.[arrow]morning. 8 week / season of friday nites.from / march 24.details IT and / melody maker.' (Text in white in bottom right corner.)
Credit line
"Always interested in lettering, the artists combine pop stripes with free form psychedelic lettering, printed in what was to become a characteristic use of metallic and Day-Glo inks. These two artists were introduced by Joe Boyd and began creating UFO posters together under the name Hapshash and the Coloured Coat."

Text by Julia Bigham
Bibliographic references
  • Christoph Grunberg, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era London: Tate, 2005. 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ISBN: 1854375954.
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1968 London: HMSO, 1969.
  • Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
Other numbers
  • OA 109 - Poster number
  • 17/A5 - V&A microfiche
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.39-1968

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Record createdNovember 13, 2006
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O129174/ufo-mark-ii-poster-english-michael/
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