Contributed by Stéphane Darricau
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Anna Monika Jost (b. 1944) is one of the many Swiss-born graphic designers who went to work in Milan during the 1950s and 1960s – this is a story that has been largely documented (notably at Zurich’s Museum für Gestaltung) and spawned a remarkable body of work by Jost and her colleagues Lora…
Contributed by Jae Ebey
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Front cover, featuring Allegro (import revision; Ludwig & Mayer, 1936) for Berry’s name and the album title. “With” set in News Gothic (regular; ATF, 1908) or a follower. Catalog number (bold) and “Hi—Fidelity¬ (regular) set in Spartan (Linotype) or similar.
Still of Berry with his…
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Loading screen for the ZX Spectrum video game The Bird and the Bees II: Antics
Bug-Byte Software was a UK software publishing house active at the end of the 1970s and the early part of the 1980s before it dissolved and was re-acquired and used as a brand label.
During its most popular and…
Contributed by Ian Fine-Free
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Here's another example of a font in use on a Percy Faith cover, as well as another example of a curly font. This time around the font is Photo-Lettering's Messick Exotic Bold (coupled with News Gothic). The album is a movie-music-themed compilation that was released exclusively through…
Contributed by Jeff Vorzimmer
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First edition (hardcover) by Bartholomew House, 1967, illustrated by Bill Wenzell. The illustrations on the front of jacket are by Roy E. LaGrone. Secondary typefaces include Craw Clarendon Condensed, Filmotype Harmony (or Photo-Lettering’s copy, Almadine Script), and…
Photo(s) by Bart Solenthaler on Flickr.
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News Gothic and Caruso Roxy for the album release of Sweet Charity, a musical comedy starring Gwen Verdon (1925–2000), by Columbia Masterworks.
No designer credited. The photograph is by…
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
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From Wikipedia:
Turning On is a collection of thirteen science fiction short stories by American writer Damon Knight. The stories were originally published between 1951 and 1965 in Galaxy , Analog and other science fiction magazines.
This is the first paperback edition,…
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
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I Am Somebody is the title of a spoken word album by Reverend Jesse Jackson that was released on Respect, a sublabel of Stax Records. It contains a recital of the poem “I Am – Somebody”. The cover typography by David Krieger of The Graffiteria features Folio in its mager and…
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Door to Door Orgy! is an adult novel by Cliff Jones, published in 1974 by Bee-Line Books.
Calypso is used for both the title and the author’s name. The tagline uses Helvetica. The text in the corner is in News Gothic.
This post was originally published at Fonts In Use
Contributed by Javi Gonzalez
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Percy Faith’s I’ll Take Romance is a 1969 easy-listening compilation album released on the Harmony Records label. The title and artist name are in Davison Spencerian with the song list in News Gothic. The cover photo was taken by Walter Swarthout.
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