Louis Armstrong – Louis “Country & Western” Armstrong album art
Contributed by Stephen Coles on Sep 12th, 2016. Artwork published in
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Source: garagesaleterritory.blogspot.com Photo via Objets Noirs, Choses Carrées (edited for clarity). License: All Rights Reserved.
Perhaps the strangest of Louis Armstrong’s many recordings*, and the design reflects that fact. Note the eszett used as an ampersand — a mistake we’ve seen before on phototype record covers.
* Critic Eugene Chadbourn is not a fan:
No rating system of any kind can really describe just what a total piece of crap it is. This is the last Louis Armstrong record anyone ever needs to get.
Source: garagesaleterritory.blogspot.com Photo via Objets Noirs, Choses Carrées (edited for clarity). License: All Rights Reserved.
1 Comment on “Louis Armstrong – Louis “Country & Western” Armstrong album art”
Judging from the fact that caps are higher than lowercase characters, this is probably Keyhole, which was the name of Formatt’s copy of Sintex.
The arrangement of the letters on a curving baseline suggests dry transfer lettering, and so does the repurposed eszett. These things are technically possible with phototype, too, but occur more naturally with glyphs that are applied individually, and aren’t entered via a keyboard.