The Old Lime Green and Violet Mare
Monday, August 27th, 2012
Beatrice Kay Gay 90s, record cover
Last week Noreen brought bacon-flavored beer to the office. I can’t say it was wonderful. It tasted like beer that had some bacon strips in the bottle. She also had maple-flavored beer. I could have made that with a Sam Adams and bottle of Mrs. Butterworth syrup. Which leads me to one of my favorite idioms, Psychedelic Victorian. You take some upstanding Victorian typography and elements, and run them through an acid trip color system. It doesn’t hurt to exaggerate typographic flourishes and mustaches. The record covers suggest music such as Maple Leaf Rag sung by The Doors. But, most of it is just nice barbershop quartet and ragtime music. If you ask me, however, someone new and groovy should start singing some of those good old songs like Oh’ Susanna.
Beatrice Kay Naughty 90s, record cover
Beatrice Kay Naughty 90s, record backside
Boston Pops, record cover, 1964
Sture Johannesson Underground poster, 1969
Gebrauchsgraphik, November 1968
