Planet P – Planet P Project
Planet P is the debut album of Planet P Project, “a pseudonym used by American rock musician Tony Carey for his science-fiction themed, progressive rock/space rock music.” — Wikipedia
The cover shown above uses Augustea Open. Its wedge-shaped quotation mark was repurposed as double hyphen. Unlike in the original type design by Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese, the N has serifs at the top left and bottom right. It’s not clear if this is a modification made by the graphic designer, or if there was a phototype version with this detail. Soon after its release in 1983, the album was retitled Planet P Project. The adjusted cover shown below now features Augustea Open with unseriffed apexes, and slightly condensed letterforms.
The track list on the back cover is set in OCR-A. With its monospaced, machine-readable glyphs, it starkly contrasts with Augustea’s chiseled capitals which reference lapidary inscriptions from the Golden Age.
Art direction by Richard Seireeni, with cover graphics by George Snow.
The lines “Produced by Peter Hauke for Rockoko Production Inc.” are made with an embossing tape label maker. Such letterforms were later made into a digital font by Just van Rossum as FF Dynamoe.
