Stark in use

Star Hawks (1979) and Star Hawks II (1981) by Gil Kane and Ron Goulart

Florian Hardwig — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 12:14:00 +0000

Two paperback volumes with reprints of the collected Star Hawks comic strips about the “peace-keeping agents of the Interplanetary Law Service”, with stories by Ron Goulart and art by Gil Kane.

The first one was published in June 1979 (Ace 78150-0, shown above), featuring a chromatic setting of Stark Raving, the shaded style of Phil Martin’s compact sans, released in the early 1970s through his Alphabet Innovations, next to Ed Benguiat’s ITC Bauhaus.

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Volume II followed in July 1981 (Ace 17272-0, shown below). The cover typography brings together the Shazam (shaded) and Love (medium) styles of True Critt, designed by Critt Graham and released by Headliners in 1970, supported by Helvetica Condensed.

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Ron Goulart died January 14, 2022, the day after his 89th birthday. Mike Glyer wrote an obit for File 770.

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Managing Political Risk Assessment by Stephen J. Kobrin

Florian Hardwig — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 11:37:00 +0000

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Phil Martin’s Stark (Alphabet Innovations) in use for a jacket design by A. Marshall Licht. While Stark was available in a ready-made shaded style named Stark Raving, the designer preferred to add a custom long shade. In the process, some of the rounded corners of the letterforms were cut, see especially O, C, A in the second line. Stark is a boxy sans in the tradition of gaspipe lettering. In its uppercase seen here with the minuscule construction for M and N, it resembles Futura Display. URW offers a digital version of Stark, covering its two solid styles.

Managing Political Risk Assessment: Strategic Responses to Environmental Change is a book by Stephen J. Kobrin, then Associate Professor of Management and International Business at New York University. It was published by the University of California Press in 1982, as volume 8 in the Studies in International Political Economy series, edited by Stephen Krasner.

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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Extra Width album art

Diego S. — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:06:30 +0000

Photo by Richard Kern

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