Record Cover, Tsunami: In a Name, Not Living, Bossa Nova

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1993	Work on this object began.
1995	We acquired this object.
1996	We photographed this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
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Record Cover, Tsunami: In a Name, Not Living, Bossa Nova

This is a Record cover. It is dated 1993 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is offset color lithograph on cardboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Gift of Steve Raskin, Ion Design.

Square album cover with the word “shocks” capitalized in a classic style typeface split into two symmetrical rows, each with three letters. The letters are formed through shadows, giving an appearance of 3-dimensionality as if raised or embossed. The letters are broken up with “SHO” on the top line and “CKS” beneath, filling the object's surface. All letters are capitalized, “H” and “K”are depicted with raised pyramid-like peaks at the top and bottom of each character 3-d effect creates shadows revealing a serif-looking font. Triangles comprise the ends of letters between thin straight lines. The cover appears as almost a topographical landscape with letters formed by the raised shadows. A “light source” is seemingly in bottom left corner, where the shadows are cast to the right, get darker from left to right, strongest in the top right corner surrounding the “O” The object is filmy white, with shadowy lettering, giving an almost eerie feel. The shadows appear in varying monochromatic cool grey and blue-black tones.They appear softly shaded, as if smudged pencil or charcoal. A thin white border surrounds the object.

Album Cover, Shocks
offset lithograph.
Courtesy of ESP Institute.
s-e-2555

Its dimensions are

18.4 x 19.8 cm (7 1/4 x 7 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Imprinted on verso, lower left corner in red: design by steve raskin and john pamer

Cite this object as

Record Cover, Tsunami: In a Name, Not Living, Bossa Nova; USA; offset color lithograph on cardboard; 18.4 x 19.8 cm (7 1/4 x 7 13/16 in.); Gift of Steve Raskin, Ion Design; 1995-108-1-b

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DzWZ/
Accession Number 1995-108-1-b
Object ID 18649841