Letter perfect

March 28th, 2009 in Jazz, Types and Fonts by lpcoverlover | 4 Comments

Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins and Frank Foster (1954)   Prestige 7053     Designed by the esteemed Reid Miles with Andy Warhol.   (Warhol’s mother actually supplied the hand-written script)   A lesson in graphic design.

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4 Comments

1. #1 Way Back Now! Lets Go... says:
   March 28th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

   Great music… cheap cover.

2. #2 Desiderio says:
   March 28th, 2009 at 9:39 pm

   I beg to differ. Less is more (though I think the “k” is somewhat squeezed).

3. #3 Von Denny says:
   June 21st, 2009 at 4:34 pm

   Just one of many notable example of Andy Warhol art where someone else actually did the work.

4. #4 Stephen Coles says:
   January 27th, 2011 at 3:20 pm

   Perhaps the model for this typeface.