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Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic is the twenty-third studio album by American recording artist Prince, who was at the time going by the unpronounceable “Love Symbol” (as shown on the album cover). Released on November 9, 1999, by NPG Records and Arista Records, the album was issued shortly after the release of The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale (1999). It includes several guest appearances, including by Gwen Stefani, Eve, and Sheryl Crow; Prince also completed a cover of Crow’s 1996 single “Everyday Is a Winding Road”. A pop and R&B album, it departs from the soul genre found on Prince's previous efforts.

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The Gold Experience is the seventeenth studio album by American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Prince. It was credited to his stage name at the time, an unpronounceable symbol (shown on the album cover), also known as the “Love Symbol”.

The album was produced entirely by Prince and released on September 26, 1995, by NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album charted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on the Top R&B Albums. The singles “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”, “I Hate U”, and “Gold” charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at numbers 3, 12, and 88 respectively.

Package design by Michael Van Huffel and Amanda Costanzi, with art direction from Prince.

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Text that bookends the video for “Mary Don’t You Weep”, released in 2018 a few months after Prince’s death.

From Prince’s estate:

The messaging in this video links thematically to Prince’s past activist work in Baltimore in 2015 and the resulting riots that ensued in the city and beyond. That year, Prince released a protest song titled “Baltimore” – along with an accompanying documentary style video – directed squarely at the need for more compassion and peace, an ever-present theme he echoed through his career. The “Baltimore” video ends Prince’s quote “The system is broken. It’s going to take the young people to fix it this time. We need new ideas, new life…”., which Prince delivered during an impassioned speech at his 2015 Rally 4 Peace concert. This video begins with that same quote, a symbolic reminder underscoring Prince’s earlier messaging and a timely reflection on the need for positive change. Directed by filmmaker, Salomon Ligthelm through Stink Films, and shot in New York City, the video pays tribute to the scores of teens and children affected by gun-related violence every year in the USA.

Text is set in Alias Harbour Bold.

Since 2019, Catalogue Général (Jean-Marie Courant & Marie Proyart) have been designing the books of the “Icônes” series, directed by Jean Cléder and Emmanuel Tibloux and published by Éditions Les Pérégrines. Ten volumes have been released so far, each with a specific typographic treatment for the titles on the front cover.

Introduced to music by his father, a pianist, and his mother, a jazz singer, Prince was a precocious musician. A talented multi-instrumentalist, he landed a contract at the age of eighteen to become a songwriter, composer, performer and producer in his own right. A real workaholic, he quickly became a major musician and singer who turned the music industry upside down.

Fascinated by his charisma and his genius, Gerald Petit retraces the construction of this prodigious destiny and takes us along in the wake of this artist who never ceases to surpass himself and multiplies his wanderings between a public confirming his aura and a critic sceptical by dint of his unpredictability.

Gerald Petit offers a fine analysis of the strategy of conquest of this beast of the stage who, relentless businessman by day and creative machine by night, is constantly on the lookout and never misses an opportunity to perform.

Prince was published by Éditions Les Pérégrines in April 2022. The book has 156 pages and measures 120×192 mm. Kellar (Apex Type Foundry) is paired with Adobe Caslon (Carol Twombly).

Title page

Interior spread

A dream project to design Prince’s memoirs lead to early discussions about what would be the right typographic voice for Prince. Depending on the era, he had an amazing gift to transform and reinvent himself.

Pialat, by Commercial Type, was a typeface we had admired for a long time after first seeing it in the pages of the New York Times’ T Magazine. We decided it was perfect for this. The proportions of the letterforms, and the subtle flares channeled the 70s in our opinion, when Prince was first launching his career and influenced by Funk. The decadence of the thick-and-thin contrast spoke to Prince’s fascination with all things sensuous that he would then tap into over his entire career. Unfortunately Prince died before this book was published but we would hope he would have approved of this choice. For the body text we selected Gerard Unger’s Amerigo. The angular sharpness of the face, even at a small scale, to us channeled Prince from the 90s and some of the typography from the albums of that era. It’s such a robust and readable typeface despite its edgy characteristics and we always wanted an excuse to use it in a project.

Echoes Of, Lord Funk, and Cyril K performed a live show and concert honoring Prince’s career as part of the Free Your Funk series at La Bellevilloise.

République Studio’s use of Monaako Script (Altiplano) embraces the typeface’s 15-degree rational schematization of calligraphy and its non linear typesetting potential.

“Little Red Corvette” is one of Prince's most timeless hits. The single was released in Germany with the above single sleeve in 1983 along with the B-side “All The Critics Love U In New York”.

Prince's name looks to be set in Extrabold Russell Square by John Russell, originally released by VGC in 1973. A-side title is set in all-caps Futura.

Released in 1978, For You was Prince's first LP. He was 19 years old upon its release. The album received a mixed critical response and was seen as a commercial failure. The self-titled Prince (1979) would prove to be much more successful.

The front cover uses Huxley Vertical by Walter Huxley, originally released by ATF in the 1930s. Photo by Joe Giannetti. Art Direction by Jeff Farmakes.