Aries: Explore Sound Cover


I believe this is a catalog for Aries Kits, a company which manufactured modular synthesizer kits during the late 70’s in Massachusetts. I love how the limitations imposed by 1970’s printing technology actually fostered good design in a lot of cases. I wonder if the designer put much thought into the layout of top portion; it looks very purpose-driven. That “Explore Sound” wire-frame logo was probably super high tech at the time.

I forgot where I found that image, any ideas? (Tineye was down at the time of this posting)

3 Comments

  1. Mackenzie says:

    They way he has his cabinet propped up on the keyboard is hilarious.

  2. fr says:

    Sweet! I bet that cool logo was a font. This would be right in that “wacky fonts widely available thanks to phototypesetting” period.

  3. The wireframe font is an old Letraset face called “Bombere” designed in 1973 by Carla Bombere.

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