Sound Patterns album art
Contributed by Herb Lubalin Study Center on Oct 16th, 2022. Artwork published in
circa 1959
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A striking abstract cover designed by Ronald Clyne for Folkways Records’ release of Sound Patterns, featuring Folio Medium Extended. First issued in 1953 with catalog number FPX 130 and a cover set in caps from Lydian, the depicted cover is for a later release. There is no date stated (apart from the original 1953 release), but the new catalog number, FX 6130, is mentioned in an issue of HiFi & Music Review from September 1958. If this indeed is an announcement of the release with Clyne’s design, his use of this typeface is a very early one: according to an index card by the Bauer type foundry, Folio Medium Extended was first cast in 1959, and advertised in 1960.
