Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Scattered blue and black dots, and concentric circles that read as grey dots float across a white field. The words PERSUASIVE PERCUSSION are printed in bold black type across the top edge, with VOLUME 3 and STEREO below. At top right under the title is the Command recors logo and RS 817 SD below. At bottom center is @ 1960 Grand Award Record Co., INC. New York, N.Y. and at lower right: Cover by Josef Albers
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- Josef Albers, German, 1888–1976, active USA, 1933–1976
- Client
- Command Records, Harrison, New Jersey
- Date
- 1960
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mathew Weaver in honor of Lenora J. and Robert J. Weaver
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on white wove paper, gate-fold cardboard, black vinyl 33 1/3 RPM record
- Dimensions
- Closed cover: 31.6 x 31.6 cm (12 7/16 x 12 7/16 in.)
- Open cover: 31.6 x 63.4 cm (12 7/16 x 24 15/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Record cover
- Type
- Record cover
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