Hapshash Pink Floyd CIAUFO Psychedelic Poster

	£		199
	$		264

This is an original silk screen poster from the 1960's, advertising Pink Floyd at the UFO club London. Kept flat and in mint condition since then. It is in beautiful vivid orange, yellow, blue and silver metallic inks. Designed Michael English and Nigel Waymouth, the design duo known as Hapshash and the Coloured Coat.

Published by Osiris Visions. Incredibly rare. One of a small collection I recently acquired from a representative of the family of the original printer. Other posters available....... see pictures, and my other auctions.

Featured artists are Move, Julie Felix, The Who, Oz magazine, Jimi Hendrix, Tomorrow / Yes ...Frank Zappa etc. Discount given for purchase of more than one poster. List sent by return email.

Poster will be packed carefully, and shipped anywhere in the world. UK £5 USA £10 insured and trackable.

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Read this wonderful piece by Nigel Waymouth about Hapshash Posters When I teamed up with Michael English in late 1966, and formed Hapshash and the Coloured coat to produce posters for the UFO club, we had no idea how successful that partnership would be. At that time , Michael was working as a free lance graphic artist within the nascent counter culture, and I had opened up London's first psychedelic boutique, Granny takes a trip, designing the decor and some of the clothes. We were aware of each other's work but it was Joe Boyd and John Hopkins, the organizers of the UFO Club, who had the idea that our combined talents might produce something special for the club's posters. they were right. We hit it off immediately and over the next eighteen months we produced a series of posters and designs that defined the ideals and visions of that time as distinctively as any of the music or fashions. From the beginning we both understood what each of us had to offer and , in sharing our talents, we were certain that we could produce a style that was both unique and exciting. Michael's talent lies in his ability to balance an unrivaled attention to detail whilst creating the most fluid designs. I brought to the work a strong imagination bursting with romantic ideas and a facility for figurative drawing. We also had a very strong sense of colour, which was important , given the cost limitations and the strictures of the silk screen process. At a time when the prevailing fashion was for an indiscriminate use of rainbows and any clashing colour combination, we strived for maximum colour effect without sacrificing balance or harmony. To this end we introduced numerous innovations that have since become common practice. Expensive gold and silver inks had not been used much on street posters before we made it a regular feature of our designs . We also pioneered the technique of gradating from one colour to another on a single separation. The effects were startling, bringing an explosive vitality to the fly posters on the London streets. Nothing like it had been seen before or since. Looking at a whole block of some twenty or thirty of a single Hapshash poster was a powerful visual shock. It was not long before people began tearing some of them down in order to decorate their own walls. It was eye candy to match any psychedelic experience. In hindsight we now realize that what we had done was to bridge a gap between Pop Art and tagged graffiti. The posters often contained subversive elements, including sexually explicit graphics, mystical symbols and dissenting messages. We regarded each poster, whatever it was promoting, not only as an aesthetically pleasing design but also as a proactive concept. We got away with it because the posters were so charming to look at and the contents, including the words, required closer attention than people could give them at first glance. Our immediate audience was the younger generation, sympathetic to the spirit of the times but we also wanted to brighten the lives of people going about there everyday business on the gray streets of London. In October 2000, The Victoria and Albert Museum put on an exhibition of the Hapshash posters and designs, including many of the original artworks. These posters are now collectors items and fetch high prices at the auction houses. In 2001 the exhibition was extended before it went on tour. As Ted Owen and Denise Dickson wrote in their definitive study of psychedelic posters, "High Art", "they designed some of the most dazzling, beautiful and original psychedelic posters - as good as any thing produced in San Francisco and Detroit.