I was in high school in 1981, and I got a part-time job shelving books at the branch library in Nashville. We kept back issues of magazines and that’s where I discovered Rolling Stone. While I was in the back reading about The Doors, I noticed the magazine’s masthead was drawn in 3D, which I thought was very cool. Inside were more examples of dramatic lettering.
Jim Parkinson was the guy responsible for much of the hand-lettering for the magazine. Parkinson is interviewed in this months Creative Characters newsletter from MyFonts. Check out the article for more about Rolling Stone, Abraham Lincoln Paulsen, and failing the Fuzzy Rabbit Test.
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