Modula? Modula? Wherefore art thou, dude?

April 15, 2013 4:29 PM

Who or what was Modula? Not the typeface, or the programming language, but the album cover designer of such bizarre creations as Fleetwood Mac's "Mystery to Me" and Camel's self-titled album. Numerous google searches turn up nothing.
posted by Chrischris to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

I would assume that it was a design firm similar to Hipgnosis.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:38 PM on April 15, 2013

I just searched "MODULA AND FLEETWOOD MAC" in Nexis for you in "News, All, English" and came up with exactly zero results.

Annoyingly in Google Books searches, "Modula-2" was, yes, a programming language from about the time PASCAL was popular.

This is frustrating, as this is a good question.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 4:46 PM on April 15, 2013

FWIW, they (?) seem to have specialized in airbrush paintings. Other covers: Fleetwood Mac's Penguin, Curved Air's Air Cut, and Camel's Mirage and The Snow Goose.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:51 PM on April 15, 2013

Best answer: The book "The Album Art of Steve Hardstaff" says "Two recent graduates from the University of Liverpool, Pete Fulwell and Jim Masson, were providing a similar service but with a broader catchment area. We joined forces and continued operations as Modula." via Google Books
posted by kmennie at 4:56 PM on April 15, 2013 [6 favorites]

Best answer: (Here is a 2008 article about Hardstaff in which Modula is accidentally referred to as Modular)
posted by kmennie at 5:04 PM on April 15, 2013 [3 favorites]