Archive for 'Typographic'


The Panama Affair, 1971

Cover design by Ted Menten.






Great type. No design credit but it was probably a Russian designer, since this was “Printed in The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.”



And love the blank back:




Cover design by Griselda Ohannessian and Charles Kaplan.


Cover by Lynn Martin.
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Love this bizarro color palette. And liked the abstract composition before I realized it said “Mill”. Probably a series?

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I also like how the inside is two columns.


Church up the street had a rummage sale, and I found this great series. Uses overprinting to good effect.

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A small art catalog of cowboy paintings.

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Language in Society, 1965

Proto-punk typography. And I love the blank back.

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The Jazz Scene, 1961

Great typographic cover by Alan Fletcher. Always interesting to find a cool Penguin from prior to their more well-known layout configuration. Oh, and of course, yay overprinting!

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