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Front cover, featuring the firemen with their instruments. Group name set in Tuscan Egyptian (Vanderburgh-Wells, 1877); album title and catalog number set in Karnak (Black Condensed; Ludlow, 1936). “GOOD TIME JAZZ” set in a yet-unidentified ornamental Tuscan typeface – seems to be a more decorative…
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A late 1980s guide for how to play the didgeridoo.
The bold, unconnected casual face used for “Didjeridu” is Hand-Drawn No. 5 , an early Letraset original for which the designer is unknown. Roger Excoffon’s Mistral (also offered by the dry transfer company) is used for the secondary…
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Melodies is Jan Hammer Group’s second studio album, released in October of 1977 via Nemperor Records and distributed by Columbia Records.
Helvetica is used on the front cover with tight kerning. The band's name is stylized using a drop cap on each line. The back cover also…
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Opening credits
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Aaahh!!! Real Monsters is an American animated television series developed by Klasky Csupo for Nickelodeon. [...] The show focuses on three young monsters—Oblina, Ickis, and Krumm—who attend a school for monsters under a city dump and learn how to frighten humans. Many of the episodes…
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Predator is the third book in Wilbur Smith’s Hector Cross series, co-written by Diana Thomas under the pen name Tom Cain, and published by William Morrow in 2016. The first-edition jacket was designed by Richard L. Aquan using Shàngó Gothic Medium for the author names. The title…
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The Muppet Show Book was published in 1978 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. The book adapts material from the first two seasons of The Muppet Show, with illustrations by Tudor Banus.
The main text font used throughout the book is ITC Souvenir. The characters’…
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The New Mystery is an anthology of short stories by 42 different writers, edited by Jerome Charyn and published in 1993 by Penguin Books under the Dutton imprint. The jacket was designed by Dean Motter, with illustrations by Vidal Centeno.
The title is primarily in stretched Arcadia,…
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MovieCorder Model 126
The MovieCorder is a line of compact VHS camcorders that was produced in Japan for Realistic, a consumer electronics brand by retailer RadioShack. It was launched around 1987.
The logo uses oblique Lee (VGC, 1972) in CamelCase and with added stripes. The typeface…
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Chameleon is a 1972 album by the Four Seasons, notable for being their only album with Motown and the only one featuring Demetri Callas on guitar; Callas had replaced band co-founder Tommy DeVito in 1970 but left in 1974, replaced by Don Ciccone and John…
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A fine Use of all-caps West Nouveau Didot for the cover of The Mean Machine, an album by jazz organist Jimmy McGriff (1936–2008) released on Groove Merchant in 1976. Printed in pale violet and yellow, the curly letters nicely echo the ornamentation on the musician’s…
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A.R. Luria’s The Mind of the Mnemonist was first published in English by Basic Books in 1968. This is the cover of the first paperback edition, issued by Discus Books in September 1969.
The exciting and bewildering inner world of an ordinary man endowed with extraordinary mental…
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The Mind of a Mnemonist presents the psychological case of Solomon Shereshevsky, a.k.a. “S.”, a man with highly advanced memory.
From the inner flap:
This brilliant study by the renowned Russian psychologist explores the inner world of a rare human phenomenon – a man who was…
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The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta (August 1975). The small type (and the text typeface) is De Vinne.
West Nouveau Didot is a typeface drawn by Dave West and added to the catalog of Photo-Lettering by 1971.
In August 1975, it was used in all caps for The Fantastic…
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Trevor Dearing (1933–2023) was a Charismatic Anglican priest who wrote eighteen books, including this one about miraculous healing through faith. For the cover, designer Cynthia Sahlman build a wall of type from the Heavy and Regular weights of ITC Serif Gothic. The display typeface by Herb…
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Cover of issue 1. Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed is used for the cover text.
Mermaid was an American adult magazine first published in 1962 by Geemil Publications (not be confused with another adult magazine also called Mermaid , published from 1958 by Garden of Eve Publications).
The…
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Creating with Paint, 1967, with illustrations by Peter Landa
Gonzales El Royal (Sample unavailable)
Can you bear more Caruso Roxy? Here’s another Use – it’ll be the last one from my side for a while, promised.
It’s my personal favorite: a series of creative activity…
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Whoa, Nelly! (DreamWorks Records, 2000)
The Canadian pop star Nelly Furtado used a logo that appears to be based on the caps of Caruso Roxy. It can be seen in her first four albums, from 2000 to 2009. “I’m Like A Bird,” the lead single from her first album, won a Grammy…
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Dust jacket of the hardback edition by Bartholomew House, 1969, with Helvetica caps for the credits
Capitalizing on the success of Coffee Tea or Me? (1967), Bartholomew House followed up with Tender Loving Care. The uninhibited memoirs of two air force nurses. This “adult fiction” is credited…
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Benard Glemser’s novel about prospective stewardess Carol Thompson was originally published by Random House as Girl on a Wing in 1960, with a much classier cover. It 1963, it was made into a movie entitled Come Fly With Me and re-issued by Bantam as The Fly Girls. In 1969, Bantam brought out a…
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Sonny Terry (1911–1986) was a blues musician from Greensboro, Georgia. Playing the harmonica, he formed a duo with Piedmont blues–style guitarist Blind Boy Fuller, and later with Brownie McGhee. Half of his 1963 album Sonny Is King features McGhee, the…
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Good Taste Is Timeless is the fifth studio album by the Holy Modal Rounders, a psychedelic folk band formed in 1963 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It was released in 1971, three years after The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders. The cover art is by Michael…
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The text on the balloon (“HAPPY BIRTHD”) might be in all-caps Franklin Gothic Wide.
This box set with twelve 7″ records containing a total of fifty party playtime songs was released on Playhour, a sublabel of Pickwick Records, and advertised in 1970.…
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This vinyl record from Grand Prix Series Records contains various country and western songs, as sung by Texas Jim Robertson. It is unknown when this album – let alone design – was released. The Encyclopedia of Country Music dates it to the late 1950s, whereas the Goldmine Record…
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“Ne Gledaj Me Tako I Ne Ljubi Me Više” single, Jugoton, December 1975, with the title set in caps from Futura Light
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Bijelo Dugme (transl. White Button) is a Bosnian (formerly Yugoslav) rock band, formed in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and…
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Gene Russell (December 2, 1932 – May 5, 1981) was an American pop, jazz, and soul keyboardist and the founder of the 1970s Oakland-based label Black Jazz Records. Born in Los Angeles, he began studying piano at a young age and later attended Juilliard. Throughout his career,…
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Cover of the mono release, with the number (LM-2896) at the bottom, in Akzidenz-Grotesk
Julian Bream (1933–2020) was an English classical guitarist and lutenist. In the fall of 1965 he recorded an album with his interpretation of the Lute Suites that Johann…
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If ever an album cover said 1968 release, this is definitely one of them!
The band consisted of Steve Soles, Eric Kaz & Artie Traum. The album is primarily psych pop rock, but very good tunes, and some great musicianship.
The typeface chosen…
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Western Birds. An Audubon Handbook by John Farrand Jr. helps readers identify “the over 460 species of birds regularly found east of the Rockies.” It is a lengthy yet compact softcover of 416 pages, 1,314 photographs, and 100,000 words. Published in 1988 by McGraw-Hill,…
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Minnie ’n Me: Songs Just for Girls album cover (1990), ft. the italic and roman styles of ITC Century Bold Condensed for secondary text
From The Disney Wiki:
Minnie ’n Me was a 1990s merchandise branding program from the Walt Disney Company featuring the comic character Minnie…
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An early use of Spring from July 1970, for the Fall/Winter 1970 edition of Spiegel’s mail order catalog. The claim reads “great things are happening at SPIEGEL”, in red letters, set right-aligned with one word per line.
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