Billy Swan – I Can Help album art
Contributed by Garrison Martin on Sep 10th, 2018. Artwork published in
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Source: www.flickr.com Sony Music Entertainment. Scan: Leif Vidar Gullstad. License: All Rights Reserved.
Billy Swan’s debut album I Can Help from 1974, featuring the hit single of the same name.
Cover design by Bill Barnes and Julie Holiner, with photography by Ken Kim. The typeface is Blimp C (solid), designed by Seymour Chwast for Photo-Lettering in the late 1960s. The text on the sticker is in caps from an extrabold geometric sans, possibly Spartan Extra Black [or rather Airport Black, see comments]. Note the use of sign painters’ quotes.
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Judging from the appearance of those sign painters’ quotes, I’m guessing that’s Airport Black, not Spartan Extra Black, even though they do look very similar to each other.
Good call. Yes, the quote marks on the sticker are closer to Airport Black. Photo-Lettering’s adaptation of Spartan Extra Black follows the original metal design in this detail, so chances are we’re looking at some phototype version of Airport Black. Spartan Extra Black and Airport Black are so similar, I would assume that one is derived from the other.