Stone the Crows – Ode to John Law album art
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Ode to John Law is the second studio album by Scottish blues rock band Stone the Crows, released in 1970 by Polydor Records. The album design is by David Juniper, who also takes design credits for the band’s debut album from 1970 as well as for Led Zeppelin’s II from 1969.
For Ode to John Law, Juniper used a Surrealist painting by artist Leo Sauer for the front cover. The typography pairs two vintage typefaces, Reklameschrift Secession (before 1905, in all caps) and Windsor Elongated (before 1908, in all lowercase).
The gatefold features illustration in a style that was popularized by Sandy Hoffman, John Alcorn, Milton Glaser, and others.
Text on the back cover is set in the IBM Selectric version of Univers.
