Cleopatra’s Gallery “No Vacancy” Catalog

Dear Erin,
I would like to propose a structure for catalog. The title “no vacancy” immediately brings to mind apartment buildings and motels, both which have something in common with publications, that is, a group of numbered containers. Can the book folios mimic the placement of numbers on hotel room doors? To complete the metaphor maybe every page is filled, no blank chapter endings etc. It would be interesting to come up with a custom type face for the folios or some kind of revival, although based on the content it may be best to neutralize the typography. Obviously I am not suggesting the catalog mimic the visual language of apartments or motels, just references the structure.
Talk soon,
Sincerely
Peter

East Dev Catalog 2004

In all honesty I have forgotten why this catalog was made. We may have been between distributors and needed an item to bring in to meetings. The cover is silk screened on card stock and the interior is black on newsprint, 5 inches by 8 inches, as I recall, french fold with a clip binding. Low rent style as usual for a struggling music label failing to transition itself into the digital era.

At this point in the life of the label I started nudging the typography away from the Akidenz / Glypha dynamic duo to experimenting with system font friendly combinations since I foresaw more of our communications, if we were to survive, happening digitally.