The Große Düsseldorfer Kunstausstellung was a large art exhibition that took place at Düsseldorf’s Kunstpalast (Ehrenhof) from 9 April to 7 May 1961.

Wolf D. Zimmermann designed the key visual and brochure cover. He opted for a lockup involving seventeen times the letter D (or d), for Düsseldorf. Many of the featured typefaces were released in the decade before the exhibition, including Salto (Klingspor, 1952), Vendôme italique (Fonderie Olive, 1953), Pro Arte (Haas, 1954), Time Script (Weber, 1956) Folio schmalfett (Bauer, 1956), and Papageno (Bauer, 1958). The only typeface to appear twice, in upper- and lowercase, is Volta (Bauer, 1955).

The exhibition title at the top is added in Helvetica. I’m not quite sure if the elongated didone D really is from Onyx. And I didn’t track down the specific Bodoni (?) version.

Via Jens Müller, who praises Zimmermann as one of his favorite designers.

Papageno for Peter Pan: the oblique caps with the soft contours are from the only published typeface design by Richard Weber. The Bauer foundry in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, advertised their 1958 release as “eine fröhliche Schrift” (“a cheerful typeface”).

Tale Spinners for Children was the American name for a series of vinyl records with stories and novels adapted for young audiences. Originating in the United Kingdom as Atlas Tales-Spinners, these records were introduced to the U.S. under the United Artists Records label. From the back cover:

THE TALE-SPINNERS FOR CHILDREN introduces an exciting new concept on records for young people. Every album in the series combines three major ingredients: classic stories for all young people; a fine theatrical company plus a famous actor or actress playing the title role, and the music of the Hollywood Studio Orchestra providing the finest background possible. Through the magic of TALE-SPINNERS, young listeners are exposed to the finest literature, and a form of classical music pre-sented in a most attractive setting.

The Peter Pan record was issued in 1967, with cover art by Frank Gauna. The casual sans-serif caps are fairly similar to Catalina, a 1957 release by Headliners, but with a different R and N.

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It Ain’t Sanitary is a re-release of the 1971 compilation album Hungry by The Coasters, with a slightly rearranged track order. It came out in 1972 on Trip Records.

The amorphous caps on the cover are from Papageno. Drawn by Richard Weber, Papageno was first cast as metal type by the Bauer foundry in 1958. It’s here being used in alternating word colors, partly with contour, and wrapped around a giant mouth that seems to swallow the members of the R&B vocal group.

In 2005, Patrick Griffin made a digitization of Papageno named Gumball.

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On the back, the band name and the title are shown in Frankfurter. Unlike Papageno, it didn’t originate in Frankfurt, but rather at Letraset in London.

Sheltr is a cohousing project offering private rooms with shared living spaces. The company wants to be the sustainable answer to traditional housing by reducing people’s footprint, spending less money and having more fun. An all-inclusive rate provides people with hotel-like amenities, so they can live worry-free.

We chose G2 Ciao as the brand typeface. This quirky details of this non-traditional face by Gruppo Due provides a unique character. The distinctive numerals were perfect to subtly incorporate the brand identity in Sheltr’s signage. This allowed us to create a typographic key addressing the various locations while retaining the privacy of their location.

Sheltr’s perky logo was created using the Gumball, giving it a warm and inviting vibe, without taking itself too seriously.

The handwriting typeface is Golden Plains.