Y Casgliad / The Collection (1968

Inside the image.

A square album-cover design combines a faded central group photograph with large lettering and four smaller portrait panels along the bottom. In the main photograph, three people stand close together: a long-haired woman on the left, a fair-haired man in the centre holding an acoustic guitar, and a dark-haired woman on the right. They are shown from about the waist up against a soft, indistinct outdoor-looking background. The man wears a red top with a pale circular motif; the women wear light-coloured tops. The photograph is washed out and slightly hazy, with pale pink, blue, green and red tones.

A network of thick, squared-off blue and olive-green lines frames and partly overlaps the photograph. The blue line runs around the upper and left portions of the cover, while the green line forms a lower, offset rectangular path that crosses in front of the photograph and continues towards the bottom. Their rounded corners and uneven overlaps give the layout a layered, graphic structure. A pale grey-white ground fills the spaces around the image and carries faint, broad geometric marks.

The title dominates the top: “Triban” appears in very large, ornate blue lettering with a light outline and shadow, extending across the upper left and centre. Above it, smaller green text reads “HARMONI · HARMONY”. To the right, “1968-1978” is set in bold green numerals. Along the far left edge, narrow blue vertical lettering reads “Y Casgliad · The Collection”.

Four small, square portrait photographs sit in a row across the lower edge, each enclosed by a differently coloured frame: blue, green, yellow-green and blue from left to right. They show the long-haired woman, the fair-haired man, another woman in profile at a microphone, and a dark-haired woman in a light top. The portraits are monochrome or strongly tinted, with the frame colours showing through their pale backgrounds. The bottom panels partly cover the larger photograph and the green line. The overall treatment is a collage of photographs, bold display lettering and flat geometric framing; the images appear soft and somewhat faded.