Vikki Carr – Superstar album art
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Vikki Carr’s Superstar is one of the four(!) albums the singer released in 1971.
The design of the album is very straightforward and no-frills. There are no additional photos beside the portrait provided on the front cover. There are no liner notes or taglines. I cannot help but feel that the album’s aesthetic took some cues from Carole King’s Tapestry, a hit album released earlier that year whose “So Far Away” is covered by Carr.
The majority of both the front and back cover is done in varying weights of Virginia. The remaining songwriting, publishing, and manufacturing information is in Helvetica. Virginia’s alternate lowercase a is used for the artist name and album title.
Ivan Nagy is credited for the cover photo, but no credit is given to any designer.
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