This small, hardboard book of 14 pop art-inspired games for two to play was designed by John Astrop and published by Kestral Books in 1980.

The front cover of this book contains an interesting assortment of four typefaces such as Antique Tuscan Condensed Shade for “The Pocket”, Circus for “Board Games”, Algerian (Letraset's version, which included the alternates used here) for the author’s name, and Windsor for the secondary text.

See the Peculiar Manicule for some sample pages from the interior.

Cover for a 7″ vinyl single of the playful pop song “Happy Time”, with the similarly poppy “Clipper 404” as the B-side.

“Happy Time” was popularized in Germany in the 1960s from being played while lottery numbers were chosen from a lottery machine on TV – hence the design’s number jumble and shape of the glücksschwein (lucky pig).

While the pile of numerals looks random at first, there are a few cleverly placed glyphs to emulate pieces of the pig’s anatomy: a sideways 8 and 3 for a snout and eyes, respectively, rotated 7 for an ear, and a 6 for a curly tail.