Talk Talk – The Party’s Over (1997 remaster) album art

Talk Talk is of course the British band with Mark Hollis who were active between 1981 and 1991. The Party’s Over was their first album, released in 1982. For the 1997 re-issues of their first four albums, the covers were slightly changed to have a matching design.

All their albums have a very stylish design with a colourful drawing and simple but recognisable lettering and layout, which was even stronger in this series of four re-issues.

For the covers of these 1997 re-issues, Univers Ultra Condensed was used. The band name and album title are in all-capitals on the front, back, and spine. The back cover have the track listing in Univers Ultra Condensed as well, but now in title case.

Univers Ultra Condensed is used even more. The inside of the booklet also has the band line-up, the band name and album title plus the year of release, and all song titles above the lyrics in all-capitals. Below each of the lyrics are the names of the people who wrote the lyrics and music, which are in title case. The text “lyrics reproduced by kind permission” is also in title case.

The drawing on the front was made by James Marsh. The original design was done by Bill Smith, the artwork for this re-issue by Rob Crane.

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