The art of the 45 RPM record label
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Being an avid record collector — and I mean collector in the squirrel sense of the word and not the Sotheby’s sense — I thought I would try to assemble an exhibit of record label art worthy of a Taschen coffee table book. And since the LP format is already grossly documented, I chose the large hole, seven-inch “45″ label instead. In this exhibit, I show-off around a hundred or so quirky, interesting, beautiful, absurd, and otherwise notable 45 rpm record labels from my personal collection ranging in date from around 1955 to 1982. Though there are a few famous names here, the focus of this exhibit is on design and typography–not the significance of the artist or song.
More at: http://www.norelevance.com/current-exhibits/45-rpm-record-label-designs/
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The labels on the 45s were half the fun of collecting them! 
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