heleno

1973.

heleno-detail

1973. Shot by Shawn in store.

golden-earring-mad-love-detail

1977. Chances are, anyone with a logo like this plays a clear lucite guitar…


golden-earring-mad-love

bob-seger-back-in-72

1973. Design: Chris Wharf.

silver-album-cover

1976. This logo is great, and guess who get’s the art direction credit? Design: Philip Hartmann—as in Phil Hartmann!


silver-detail

esperanto-rock-orchestra

1973. Only art credit I could find is “Art Direction: Michael Doud.”

bette-midler

1973. Design by Loring Eutemey. Amazing illustration by Richard Amsel.

A couple very different bits of type for this singer. From 1979:


evie-never-the-same


evie-never-the-same-detail


and 1977:


evie-mirror


evie-mirror-detail


She had others, like this one from 1972

40-original-hits

1976.

kayak-phantom-of-the-night

1978. What really caught my eye on this one is the logo:


kayak-phantom-of-the-night_logo
They seem to have used this logo pretty consistently in various forms throughout their career. But the neon treatment on this one is what makes it.


And they had at least one other cool typographic moment:


kayak-merlin
That one’s from 1981.