Group 180 – Terry Riley portrait concert poster
A poster for Hungarian ensemble Group 180’s performance of Terry Riley’s (at the time) complete works, designed by one of the performers, composer Béla Faragó.
The “wanted” poster-style heading (perhaps the Old West was a Hungarian audience’s nearest point of reference to Riley’s home of California?) is set in Stencil, the subheading in Univers Condensed Italic, and the date and venue set in a mix of Eurostile [or rather Microgramma, see comments] Bold Extended (numbers) and ITC American Typewriter (letters). A close look suggests creative solutions for missing letters were called for.
The image of Riley is the cover of his LP Happy Ending, which uses hand-drawn bubble lettering along the lines of West Bubble Gum, Kabel, and what appears to be Unicorn Open.
2 Comments on “Group 180 – Terry Riley portrait concert poster”
Those numbers aren’t in Eurostile Bold Extended; they’re actually in Microgramma. Here’s a link to a comment that shows an animated gif of these differences: fontsinuse.com/uses/43436/i…
Fixed.