Berliner Philharmoniker – The Planets by Gustav Holst album art
The Berliner Philharmoniker under conductor Herbert von Karajan (1908–1989) performed Gustav Holst’s The Planets in January 1981. The recording was released by Deutsche Grammophon, with a cover design by Werner Koberstein and art direction from Lutz Bode.
The montage of the Saturnian system is a composite of several images taken by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft during its Saturn encounter in November 1980. It’s not correct in scale or perspective. The moon at the top left is Dione, the one in the center is Mimas with its prominent Herschel crater, and the larger one to the right is Tethys. The reddish one at the bottom left is Titan, and the remaining one should be either Enceladus or Rhea.
Multiple editions have been released over the years, in various color variants. The primary typeface for all of them is American Gothic. This variation on Engravers Gothic [edit: rather Copperplate Gothic, see comments] was drawn by Vladimir Andrich for Alphatype in 1967.
3 Comments on “Berliner Philharmoniker – The Planets by Gustav Holst album art”
I always thought American Gothic was based on Copperplate Gothic. Basically, Copperplate Gothic with lowercase added. I don’t see the connection with Engraver’s Gothic.
You’re right, of course. Slip of the keyboard – I meant to write Copperplate Gothic. Engravers, copperplates, … it’s all too closely related.
Ah—thought that might be the case.