Psychedelic Alice in Wonderland 2010 calendar
Oct 24
John Coulthart created a cool psychedelic calendar based on Alice in Wonderland.
Instead of rehashing old work for a CafePress calendar design, I thought I’d try something new. I hadn’t done any artwork for myself all year, everything I’d been working on was a commission of some sort. In addition to that, I’d spent a large portion of the year delving deeper into the psychedelic music of the late Sixties, especially the wealth of obscure British bands to be found on the seemingly endless series of compilations which have trickled out over the past two decades. Everyone is familiar with Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit but, as I’ve noted before, themes from, and allusions to, the Alice books run through British psychedelia to an even greater degree. The Beatles put Lewis Carroll in their pantheon of influences on the cover of Sgt. Pepper, and Wonderland’s atmosphere of Victorian surrealism chimed perfectly with a resurgence of interest in Victorian art and design.
After mulling over ideas, he picked up one of his Lewis Carroll volumes and looked at the chapter list and noticed it has 12 chapters. Then it hit him, 12 chapters, 12 months, and the psychedelic Alice in Wonderland calendar was born!
The CafePress calendar page for would-be purchasers is here.
via: johncoulthart.com
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