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David Bowie – Hunky Dory album art

Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Jan 8th, 2014. Artwork published in
December 1971
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David Bowie – Hunky Dory album art 1
Source: www.nacionrock.com License: All Rights Reserved.

Zipper (Letraset, 1970) in use for the UK cover of Hunky Dory, the fourth studio album by David Bowie, released on 17 December 1971 on RCA Records.

The cover was designed by George Underwood, featuring a photograph by Brian Ward. “Originally shot in monochrome, the image was recoloured by illustrator Terry Pastor, a partner at Covent Garden's recently initiated Main Artery design studio with George Underwood.” – Wikipedia

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David Bowie – Hunky Dory album art 2
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1 Comment on “David Bowie – Hunky Dory album art”

  1. Sarah Hyndman of Type Tasting has a series of typographic T-shirts. One of them features a glyph set of Zipper, arranged as on a Letraset sheet, with some glyphs missing. The missing ones spell out David Bowie, Hunky Dory, 1971, Changes, Life on Mars.

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