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Cabaret Voltaire – Micro-Phonies

Author: Colin | Published: 7/11/09

Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies

Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies

Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies

Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies

Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies

Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies

Artist Cabaret Voltaire
Title Micro-Phonies
Label Virgin/some bizarre
Year 1984
Designer Original artwork: Phil Barnes, sleeve design: Neville Brody
Music Cabaret Voltaire
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Notes We hang our collective head in shame. It’s taken us over two years to feature something by Neville Brody. Then again, in our defence, it’s not the work he’s most famous for. Micro-Phonies though is an absolute beauty with its hints of wayward surgical procdures, gunsights and typesetting. That recurrent elastoplast shape really reminds us of the shape used by Matthew Barney in the Cremaster Cycle. Some ’80s graphic design looks all too steeped in that decade’s questionable values, but this transcends its time. And you have to love that font.

(This post is for Gutterbreakz)

See also: Neville Brody and Fetish Records (Feuilleton)


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