King Crimson – Red album art
Filmotype Holly was used on the cover of King Crimson’s 1974 album Red. From Wikipedia:
During the mixing stage, ideas for the album’s title and artwork were discussed. The needles on the meters on the studio’s mixing desk were observed to be “bouncing and crashing sharply into the red”; for Wetton, this symbolised the direction of the band’s music and was to influence the planned front cover of Red. However, EG [the band’s management] suggested that a group photograph would be easier to sell, particularly for the American market. EG director Mark Fenwick pitched to hire John Kosh, who subsequently commissioned Gered Mankowitz to produce photographs of the meters (for the album’s back cover) and the group, but tensions within the group led to each member being photographed alone and being combined into a composite. The resulting cover’s chiaroscuro style has been compared to that of the Beatles’ 1963 album With the Beatles […]
Text on the back cover appears to be set in some wonky phototype version of Futura Bold. The album was released on Island Records in the UK. The images show the US release on Atlantic Records.
