Miles Davis – We Want Miles
Contributed by Matthijs Sluiter on Jan 27th, 2018. Artwork published in
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We Want Miles is a double album with recordings from Boston, New York and Tokyo, by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, released by Columbia Records in 1982. Cover photo: Yoshihisa Yoneda.
The W/W image rhyme is completed by changing Miles’ M for a flipped W. The cover type was manually slanted (and made more bold?). It is derived from a bold extended style of one of the early-20th century grotesques from Germany, probably Aurora-Grotesk (Annonce) or Venus.
The red text on the back was set in a yet unidentified geometric sans serif with a straight-legged M.
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1 Comment on “Miles Davis – We Want Miles”
The unidentified font looks almost like Sol Hess’s Twentieth Century, with the exception of the straight-sided M. I wonder if it ever came with the straight M as an alternate?