Trust Elvis
1981
Designer
Paula Scher
DIMENSIONS
36 x 24 3/4 in. (91.4 x 62.9 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.2025.1540
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mirko Ilić
KEYWORDS
Entertainment, Man, Music, Portrait, White

Paula Scher based this poster for Columbia Records promoting Elvis Costello’s fifth studio album Trust on the photo of the British singer-songwriter on the album cover, designed by Barney Bubbles. But her vibrantly colored composition is appropriately more eye-catching and certainly more humorous than the cover; she emphasizes Costello’s eccentric personality as he peeps over the frame of his signature retro black-rimmed glasses, now with opaque color-blocked lenses, and presents the album’s title first, followed by his name in lettering of the same size, thus introducing the album with the phrase “Trust Elvis.

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