Althea & Donna – “Uptown Top Ranking” / “Calico Suit” German single cover

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

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The German sleeve for Althea & Donna’s 1978 hit single “Uptown Top Ranking” features four typefaces that were all available from Letraset at the time. None of them was an original creation by the English manufacturer of dry transfer lettering, though: Kabel Black (“Top Ten in England”)…

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⇾ Congrats to my Friend Gavin Strange for 25 Years of Jamfactory

Gavin Strange celebrates 25 years of creating under the name of Jamfactory. Wow. And Yay!

I’ve been celebrating as of late, as at the start of the month on the 6th February, it was exactly 25 years since first registering my domain name jam-factory.com, which means it’s been a quarter of a century making stuff under the name of “Jamfactory”! I put together a wee video edit, cataloguing 25…

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