70’s Sci-Fi logos and magazine design

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Going through a couple of recently acquired Mediascene magazines today from the late 70’s and I was struck by how much more imaginatively designed the headers on some of the articles were. A lot of them riffed off of film or comic logo design of the age but were mini works of art in themselves. I’ve included various shots of comic logos from ads in the mags too.

 

Olly Moss (again) Resistance 3 designs

Traveling past London Bridge station today I spotted a huge banner of Olly Moss’ Resistance 3 design, two poster designs are below.
And here’s a great little trailer inspired by his designs too
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The Death Set new album & single artwork

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Remember the iconic artwork for the first Death Set record back in 2009? One of my favourite covers of the year and their new releases are high on the list for 2011 as well. Another blend of B&W collage with yellow and red, this time coming on like Richard Hamilton meeting Eduardo Paolozzi. Below are the album and singles, front and back, plus a tour poster I found featuring additional artwork. Buy ’em all here.



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JG Thirlwell artwork

A couple of projects JG has been involved with recently have really caught my eye on the artwork front, both have a medical angle and lean on the black, white and red colour palette.

The first is Manorexia‘Dinoflagellate Blooms’, a double disc pack with X-rays and syringes. Click for larger versions. Buy it from JGT’s site here. It’s a double CD with regular and 5.1 surround sound version.


The second is a lovely 4 track 10″ under the name Hydrose Plus, a collaboration with Fred Bigot. The cover shows a face from a medical encyclopedia in profile but when you take the clear vinyl 10″ out of the sleeve you realise that the eyeball is printed on the label and fits perfectly into the eye socket on the front. Not only that but you also get an insert with the inside of the face cut away.

Buy it directly from the label here.

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