Cover concept: Kevin Parker
Artwork and design: Robert Beatty

Photo: Ian Lanius. License: All Rights Reserved. Artwork by Ian Lanius.

To me, this Magno Sound & Video logo is a quintessential use of Microgramma. Paired with a Midtown Manhattan address set in Helvetica, it gives me the feeling that there's something cool, exclusive, expensive and high-tech behind that label. Visions of woodgrain and brushed metal. The waveform in the O is a great addition.

Photo: Ian Lanius. License: All Rights Reserved. Artwork by Ian Lanius.

The Magno Video logo, however, is a completely different look. More of a feathered hair and satin jacket vibe. It's very similar to the Original New York Seltzer label design from 1981. I originally suspected that the address was set in Cooper Black Italic, but that's not the case. Any help in identifying would be welcome.

Designed by Margret Larsen, art director at the Joseph Magnin department store in the late 1950s to early ’60s. The illustration is by Betty Brader and depicts Larsen herself. (See a photo that seems the likely source image.)

Geezer’s Gallery dates this ad 1958, as shown by the Art Direc­tors and Artist Club of San Fran­cisco. See more from the campaign (albeit in poor reproductions) on their page.

Official Rolling Stones letterhead on a letter from Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol, dated April 21, 1969, regarding the creation of the album art that would become the cover of Sticky Fingers.