The Face? New Socialist?

no to both. the face isnt straight enough, new socialist is too detailed and playful. but brody could be the designer.

so what about Hard & Heavy ?

> for the cover and or logo of a magazine in the 90ies (or end of the 80ies)

news & politics? lifestyles? style & fashion?

i would say either lifestyle or style & fashion from the picture i have in my head. i know, my memories are so precise! ;)

brody was right, i did some google-search on typophile and found it.. the tricky thing is, it was a face-cover, but the typeface was in a headline, not in the logo.

http://typophile.com/node/17631

“Two months later, the typeface later named Industria appeared in the magazine.” - but industria on myfonts, designed by brody, isnt an exact fit - too round. is it possible to buy this typeface (ELECTRO)?

thank you for your help again, david.

any idea if the ELECTRO-typeface is available digitaly?

No. Sorry.

hmm.
1. is there a similarly condensed typeface in this style available digitaly?
2. whats your take of loosely basing a font on those letters for a personal project? im not nearly good enough to make a professional typeface anyway, so the biggest it could be would be a freefont (but i wouldnt have a problem not releasing it). it would just fit a project i had in mind for months. maybe asking mr. brody would be a way.

shall i start a new thread for this in the appropriate forum?

A font like this is extremely easy to slap together. I did a similar one last century (my first and only typeface) based on the lettering of a thriller by Mark Folsom. I think I called that one “Folsom”. It may still be around on the web (although that was in its infancy at the time). Don’t have it anymore myself, sorry…