Andrew H
All four pieces are superb but Everyday Dust's contribution wins by the thickness of a piece of litmus paper as my favourite track.
Favorite track: Everyday Dust - Salt Crystallography 1915.
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I contacted Rupert, RJ, Steven and Alan on 10th October 2020, asking them to participate in this project. I allocated each of them the title of one of the stamps and specified that the resulting piece had to be exactly fifteen minutes in length. I also provided a link to an article about the scientific process involved. There were no other rules or information given other than the imposition of the title and track length.
Each artist was free to interpret the construction of the piece however they wanted.
I would like to express my respect and gratitude to the artists for their excellent work. I think it’s fair to adjudge this particular experiment as a resounding success.
The stamps, issued on 2nd March, 1977, were designed by Jerzy Karo and printed in photogravure by Harrison and Sons Limited, at the time, a major worldwide engraver and printer of postage stamps and banknotes.
The Royal Mail presentation pack was issued as pack number 92 and printed in Great Britain by Moore and Mathes (Printers) Limited.
There’s not much information readily available about Jerzy Karo. He wrote at least two books including Graphic Design: Problems, Methods, Solutions which was published in 1975. He also contributed to children’s educational picture books and designed a set of Polish public information posters which are difficult to find, but are worth searching out as they are quite beautiful. The Royal Mail presentation pack from March 1977 has no information about him other than his design credit.
The images in this book are used without permission but with gratitude to Mr Karo and the Royal Mail.
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I bought the album because I was hooked by the opening track. Its uplifting quality and tempo fit the 1979 new town utopia concept perfectly. The rest of the album - minus the closing track - came as a bit of a surprise however, with a very different atmosphere of doom and gloom. This was more fitting to the cynic of the new town - the Thatcherite’s mood perhaps, sounds befitting an Adam Curtis doc or Blade Runner. The 1st and 8th tracks - brutalist utopia - are the ones that will stick with m bedster
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Fantastic album, especially for those of us with hazy memories of Doctor Who, The Changes, Children of the Stones and terrifying public information films. roblove1
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