Talking Heads – Fear of Music album art
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Fear of Music is an album of Talking Heads released in 1979 on the Sire label. It reached #21 in the US and #33 in the UK.
The cover was designed by band member Jerry Harrison, with art direction from John Gillespie, featuring an embossed metal diamond-plate texture that was conceptualized by Tina Weymouth’s architect brother, Yann. The artwork has been included in the permanent collection of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art).
The front cover is set in Artisan, one of the custom typefaces that IBM commissioned for their Selectric typewriters. In a 2017 interview for Album Cover Hall of Fame.com, Spencer Drate recalls that he “worked with David Byrne to design the entire typography treatment for the album cover and inner sleeve. […] The original covers were printed with a ‘dayglo’ special green color for the type, which was an extra great design touch.”
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