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      <title><![CDATA[Pulp – We Love Life album art]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/4/stephen-coles">Stephen Coles</a><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/4885/pulp-we-love-life-album-art"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/14831/upto-700xauto/69b3ce7f/1/jpeg/3767122418_12e366ff4b_o.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lodieu/3767122418/in/set-72157622791438082/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Image via Emmanuel Lodieu</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31516/untitled-louis-john-pouchee"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/1/761/440/4/570e205e/untitled-louis-john-pouchee.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1160/univers"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/13/1160/400/4/6a4a90a5/univers.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>For Pulp’s final album in 2001, Peter Saville contrasted two very different typographic styles — intricate floral letters cut by hand into wood, and plastic label tape stamped by a machine.</p>

<p>The large letters come from at least two designs (the ‘P’s are from different alphabets) in a decorative wood type<strong> <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31516/untitled-louis-john-pouchee">series</a></strong> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pouch%C3%A9e">Louis John Pouchée</a> foundry who was active in the early 1800s. As far as I know, no one has digitized these alphabets and they can only be seen in their original form in <a href="http://imimprimit.com/i-m-imprimit-printing-typography/fine-editions/ornamented-types/"><em>Ornamented Types: Twenty-three alphabets from the foundry of Louis John Pouchée</em></a>, a 1990–94 printed specimen published by I.M. Imprimit with a very limited edition, or as reproductions in Nicolet(t)e Gray’s <em><a href="http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/typemaking/history/type-scholars/gray/index.html">Nineteenth Century Ornamented Types and Title Pages</a> </em>where Pouchée’s type is attributed to the Wood &amp; Sharwoods London foundry. You can also see some glimpses of the I. M. Imprimit specimen in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJjKJgvb-A">this clip</a> from the film <em>Typeface</em>.</p>

<p><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31514/lettres-ombrees-ornees">Lettres Ombrées Ornées</a> is a similar design but is based on a slab serif model and is much less varied in its ornamentation.</p>

<p>“We Love Life” is made not with a font, but with a labeler (such as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYMO_Corporation">DYMO</a>) that stamps letters into plastic tape. But global promotional materials used various fonts derived from these label machines, including <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/2471/ff-dynamoe">FF Dynamoe</a> and <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/6486/chromosome">Chromosome</a>,</p>

<p>Printed credits:<br />
Design: Howard Wakefield and Marcus Werner Hed<br />
Art direction: Peter Saville and Jarvis Cocker</p><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/4885/pulp-we-love-life-album-art"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/14825/upto-700xauto/69b3ce7f/1/jpeg/Pulp-We_Love_Life-Trasera.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/4885/pulp-we-love-life-album-art"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/14828/upto-700xauto/69b3ce7f/1/jpeg/4322188086_4ac90124ae_o.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39774626@N03/4322188086/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Photo by Bas van Vuurde</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>According to <a href="http://www.pulpwiki.net/Pulp/WeLoveLifeAlbumArtwork">PulpWiki</a>, non-UK versions of the album have autumnal colors rather than green.</p><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/4885/pulp-we-love-life-album-art"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/14829/upto-700xauto/69b3ce7f/1/jpeg/%24T2eC16h,!wsE9suw0QRuBRkTwghc8w~~60_57%20%281%29.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574989137&toolid=10001&campid=5337101836&customid=&mpre=http://www.ebay.com/itm/PULP-WE-LOVE-LIFE-AUSTRALIAN-PROMO-POSTER-Alternative-Rock-Post-Punk-Music-/380641423350" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rover.ebay.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>Australian promo poster using Chromosome.</p><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/4885/pulp-we-love-life-album-art"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/14830/upto-700xauto/69b3ce7f/1/jpeg/2000s-0106.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://www.poprockposters.com/index.php/DECADES/2000s/2000s-0106" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.poprockposters.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>Promo poster using the FF Dynamoe font rather than physical label tape.</p><br/><a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/4885/pulp-we-love-life-album-art"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/14833/upto-700xauto/69b3ce7f/1/jpeg/pulp-we-love-life-swedish-poster.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=4&pub=5574989137&toolid=10001&campid=5337101836&customid=&mpre=http://www.ebay.com/itm/PULP-2001-WE-LOVE-LIFE-SWEDISH-PROMO-POSTER-/190545907604?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c5d6bcf94" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rover.ebay.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>Swedish promo poster also using FF Dynamoe.</p><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://www.fontsinuse.com/uses/4885/pulp-we-love-life-album-art">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>Stephen Coles</author>
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