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Boredoms – Wow 2 album art

Contributed by Frank Grießhammer  on Jun 29th, 2024. Artwork published in
October 1993
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Boredoms – Wow 2 album art 1
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Wow 2 is a live album by Japanese experimental noise rock band Boredoms, produced by John Zorn and released in October 1993 on his Avant Records.

The cover uses Zuzana Licko’s Totally Gothic caps – stretched by roughly 130%, and outlined to make them quite a bit heavier. The colorful stripes around the type are also all outlines of Totally Gothic, I am counting at least 25 stroke applications.

The stroke treatment makes Totally Gothic look a bit like graffiti – an unexpected transformation!

Design by Tomoyo T.L, with typography by Lisa Wells.

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The rounded sans used for the Japanese text on the spine card (a.k.a. obi) is unidentified. [edit: it’s , see comments]
Source: www.hhv.de HHV. License: All Rights Reserved.

The rounded sans used for the Japanese text on the spine card (a.k.a. obi) is unidentified. [edit: it’s Sūbo, see comments]

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2 Comments on “Boredoms – Wow 2 album art”

  1. MrRifleman says:
    Aug 8th, 2024 12:56 pm

    The rounded gothic in the obi strip is Sūbo (スーボ) by Shaken (写研). The weight used is the BSU Variant.

  2. Florian Hardwig says:
    Aug 9th, 2024 9:24 am

    Added! Thanks for your help.

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