About Chicago House
Chicago house was born in a dark room. In 1984 Frankie Knuckles was spinning reel-to-reel edits at The Warehouse and Trax Records was pressing 12-inch singles onto thin black vinyl. The look that grew around it was never designed — it was photocopied: Xerox-grain flyers, smudged sleeve type, the acid-house smiley burning yellow in a strobe-lit black club.
- Origin
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Era
- 1950–1990 (this brief: 1984)
- Key figures
- Frankie Knuckles · The Warehouse · Trax Records
- Movements
- Chicago house · acid house · acid-house smiley
Chicago House design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
Archivo BlackHeadings
Hanken GroteskBody
Space GroteskMono
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