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Jamaican reggae group Roots Radics was formed in 1978. Their 1984 album Roots Dub Style was released on the Canadian Scorpio label. The uncredited cover shows Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I – worshipped as messiah by followers of the Rastafari movement – flanked by four Lions of Judah. The title…
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Fonts from the Flea Market #1460
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich are an English rock band formed in Salisbury in 1964. This compilation album released in 1981 brings together twelve of their greatest hits, including “Zabadak”, their…
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The debut album by Jamaican reggae singer Jennifer Lara (1953–2005) was recorded at and released by Studio One in 1981. For the cover typography, designer O’Neil Nanco worked with Letraset’s Manuscript Capitals , using both forms for the letter R.
Hailing from Kingston, Jamaica, Nanco studied Advertising…
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Dutch sticker from around 1980, advertising “Stabil Oil for active motors”, using Letraset’s adaptation of Dynamo (1930). The letter I was sliced, turning its semi-seriffed top into a dot.
This post was originally…
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Kölsche Mösche (“The Cologne Sparrows” in the local dialect) is an alias used during carnival by the Quartettvereinigung Rheinland 1919. The men’s choir led by Heinz Eckert (1929–2015) recorded a couple of albums in the 1970s. This…
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Can’t Conquer Rasta is a 1977 studio album by I-Roy (1942–1999). It was recorded with the Aggrovators as the backing band – featuring Sly & Robbie on drums and bass – and released on Bunny Lee’s Justice label. The B-side has dub versions of all six tracks.
The uncredited cover design uses Letraset’s Lazybones…
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Denby Medium was my weapon of choice as font for my first 16mm short film, Board Game, made in 1985. I loved the old world classic style that, I now think, I subconsiously associated with the ITC Souvenir font used in JAWS (I may be projecting wishful thinking there).
I purchased two giant sheets of Letraset…
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Amenophis were a German prog band who in 1983 released their only album in the original line-up. Unlike the rise of neo-prog at the time, this is pure symphonic prog.
The LP was released privately in an edition that cannot have been more than a few thousand copies. It was released on CD in the 1990s.
Besides loving the…
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The Working Brain is an introduction to neuropsychology, written by Soviet psychologist A.R. Luria as a concise adjunct volume to his magnum opus, Higher Cortical Functions in Man from 1962. It was translated to the English by Basil Haigh for Penguin Books in 1973. Shown here is the…
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Zelená kuchyně (1988) by Jan Jeník, Václav Větvička, and Sergej Michajlovič Skornjakov, with illustrations by Edita Plicková
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Czechoslovak publisher Lidové nakladatelství brought out a series of nature books in their Edice Planeta…
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Fonts from the Flea Market #1447
Sleeve for a French single by German singer Mary Roos (b. 1949), released in 1971 by CBS Records. Zipper is used in all caps, and Pump Bold in all lowercase letters. Both typefaces were designed by Bob Newman…
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Friseurteam Iris is a hair salon on Grünberger Straße in Berlin’s Friedrichshain quarter. The sign above the graffiti-covered shopfront combines a bichromatic all-caps setting of Cabaret (Letraset, 1980) with…
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Paperback edition, February 1989
A rare sighting of Obliq , a Letraset release from 1984, used in both of its weights for a science fiction novel by Hal Clement (1922–2003):
The Riddle of Enigma Years of exacting study were coming…
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Ragtime
From Paul Dini & Chip Kidd’s Batman Animated (1998):
These imaginatively rendered title cards were a high point of each Batman episode. While some (like “Harley’s Holiday” and “Time out of Joint”) were character portraits, most often the cards depicted an emotional impression of…
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1983 album by Sly & Robbie and the Taxi Gang, released on their own Taxi Records.
The open letterforms casting a perspective shadow are from Alpha Sunrise, the dimensional style of Hiroshi Yamashita’s typeface family. “Taxi Gang” is in Letraset’s Revue. “Taxi Connection” appears to…
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An album from the legendary Wackie’s record label based in the Bronx, active in the late 1970s and 1980s. Helmed by Lloyd Barnes, it became an important place for roots reggae and dub productions with many artists coming from Jamaica to get the special Bullwackie…