Wizzard – “See My Baby Jive” Hungarian single cover
Sleeve for the Hungarian release on Pepita, licensed through EMI. Design by János Flohr (b. 1950). From Budapest Poster Gallery:
Flohr is a graphic designer, who worked in many fields of graphic design. He studied in the 1970s under Sándor Ernyei and József Finta. Initially he worked in the Kossuth Printing House’s reproduction workshop, but he soon got work as a graphic artist. He often designed posters and other type of advertisements for Hungaroton, Hungexpo, Magyar Hirdető and Medicor. He preferred to use photos on his compositions.
Kieselbach adds that he won the Best Poster of the Year award in 1983, and that he also worked on stamps and exhibition graphics.
In 1973, amidst his studies at the Budapest College of Applied Arts, Flohr designed this single sleeve for an early single by Wizzard. The English glam rock band was formed by Roy Wood, co-founder of the Electric Light Orchestra, in 1972. The typefaces originated in England, too: the aptly named Block is the creation of John Gorham (1937–2001). It here features in a multicolor application. The monolinear rounded sans used for the catalog number and “Stereo-Mono” is Michael Chave’s Pipeline. Both were issued by Face Photosetting in London in the early 1970s. The Pepita name is shown in Colin Brignall’s Countdown (Letraset, 1965).
