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Septet – The New Sound of Art Van Damme / Columbia Records, 1964
Cover photo by Fred Schnell, Globe

Licia Albanese in Highlights from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly / RCA Victor, 1954

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 / Decca Records, 1951
Cover art by Erik Nitsche

Erroll Garner / Columbia Records, 1953

Ellis in Wonderland / Columbia Records, 1956
Cover photo by Phil Stern

Luther College Choir in Europe / RCA Victor, 1967

Kostelanetz – Carmen / Columbia Records, 1955
Photo (left) by Krieger
Photo (right) from the book, ‘La Fiesta Brave,’ The Art of the Bull Ring, Barnaby Conrad

Frank Rosolino – I Play Trombone / Bethlehem Records, 1956
Leichman & Seide

Cuttin’ The Boogie: Piano Blues and Boogie Woogie, 1926–1941 / New World Records, 1977
Cover art by Alexander Calder, ‘Horizontal Spines’; sheet metal, wire and rods, sheet aluminum
Cover design by Elaine Sherer Cox

Rodgers & Hart – Percussion & Strings / Time Records, 1960
Cover design by Burt Goldblatt
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A mix of bold graphic, typographic and/or photographic album covers from the 1950s and 1960s; well, with the exception of one 1970s cover I slipped in the set.

>> See previous album cover features here + flickr

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Editor’s note:
This marks the final post of this nature on AQ-V as I have decided to wrap up this enjoyable four year long chapter of blogging and move toward other projects. This decision comes after much consideration. I will be making a formal announcement sometime next week.

Thank you for a great run!
–Amy

Winning mark by Takeshi Otaka

Mark initially selected as winner, by Isao Nishijima

by Keijo Ito

by Tadashi Ohashi

by Yusaku Kamekura

by Tetsuo Katayama

by Koji Kato

by Ikko Tanaka

by Kazumasa Nagai

by Masayoshi Nakajo

by Tomokazu Nishiwaki

by Yoshio Hayakawa

by Toshio Fukuda

by Iwao Hosoya

by Ryuichi Yamashiro

by GK Industrial Design Office

by KAK
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Featured above is a heft of seventeen bold graphic logo marks by various and significant Japanese designers. They represent entries in the Osaka Expo ’70 competition and are sourced from Trade Marks & Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs, part of a comprehensive hardback set featuring thousands of modern logos. The series is edited by notable Japanese graphic designer Yasaburo Kuwayama, published in 1973.

The marks above appear in the exact order as they do in the book with the winning mark by Takeshi Otaka in the lead. (This logo was previously published in Sandi’s Logo Collection, 1969 post plus my Expo ’70 – Osaka, Japan post here on AQ-V.) And the initial winning mark by Isao Nishijima following.

>> More classic logos on AQ-V

–Amy

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