Takehisa Kosugi – Catch-Wave album art
Contributed by Robert Beatty on Dec 9th, 2023. Artwork published in
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Artwork for Catch-Wave, an album of solo improvisations for violin, electronics, and voice by Fluxus artist Takehisa Kosugi. The cover features a vibrating op art treatment of a photo by Tamotsu Fujii designed by Aritsune Terada & Shizuo Ishizuka. Released on CBS/Sony Records in 1975.
The title is set in caps from the left-leaning Alfereta. The artist’s name uses Futura Bold.
“Sounds speeding on lights” appears to be Trade Gothic. The other fonts on the back cover including the Japanese ones are unidentified.
3 Comments on “Takehisa Kosugi – Catch-Wave album art”
The overall Japanese text at the back cover is Nāru, and the vertical text at the middle is Sūbo.
The two bold looking kana text is set in Shaken’s Typos (タイポス) series with the boldest weight being used “タイポス 1212”. It is evident from the vertical dakuten marks.
Thanks so much! You’re really clearing out our backlog of unidentified Japanese typefaces.
In Shaken’s online archive, I can see various styles under the name タイポス: 35 TY35A, 37 TY37A, 45 TY45A, 411 TY411A (all from 1969), 44 TY44, 66 TY66, 88 TY88 , and 1212 TY1212 (all from 1972). Are these all members of the same series? I’m asking because some look quite different from the others, in terms of contrast.
Typos originally is a serif and sans serif kana typeface. The strokes of each kana may differ depending on the variant (especially the serif/mincho styles). The associating kanji used for typos are Ishii Mincho for serif and Ishii Gothic for sans serif.
Try reading this article and the subsequent digital interpretations of this typeface for reference.
ryougetsu.net/sho_typos.html