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Bratislavská lýra 1982 single covers

Florian Hardwig — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:54:12 +0000

Apart from the lyra logo in the top left corner, Zdeněk Hašler’s cover design for the 17th edition of Bratislavská lýra in 1982 is exclusively typographic. The main typeface is Othmar Motter’s lowercase-only Alustyle, set on an angle, with custom diacritics. Each of the three singles with songs from the Czechoslovak festival of popular music has stripes printed in a different color.

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Valérie Čižmárová – “Sunny” / “Čekám” (Panton, 1969) single cover

Christopher Bentley — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 13:57:01 +0000

Contributed by Christopher Bentley

From my record collection, this is the sleeve designed by André Černoušek for the debut single of Valérie Čižmárová, with her name set in Clarendon.

It’s a cover of Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny”, with lyrics by Ali Brezovský. The B-side has “Čekám” (“I Am Waiting”), with music by Mojmír Smékal, lyrics by Rostislav Černý. Both songs have instrumental accompaniment from the studio orchestra under Ivo Moravus. The record was produced by Ivan Štědrý, who also wrote the sleeve notes on the back cover. Recorded 26th May 1969 at Studio Smečky, Prague. Photography by Petr Polák. Gill Sans – and lettering based on it – is used as secondary typeface.

This basic design forms part of the d r uvádí (“d r presents”) series on Panton, featuring artists appearing at the Divadlo Rokoko (Rokoko Theatre), such as Valérie Čižmárová’s close colleague Jitka Zelenková and the composer of the music for Valérie Čižmárová’s second single, “Když mě chceš” (“When You Want Me”) and the other side to that record, “Proč se ti zdá” (“Why Does It Seem To You”) and the lyrics for the first of these, alongside Pavel Náhoda and solo for the second – Milan Klipec.

For details on Valérie Čižmárová’s life and work please visit the fan blog “Bananas For Breakfast”.

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Pavel Blatný – Dialogy—Studie album art

Robert Beatty — Wed, 15 May 2019 12:29:12 +0000

Album cover for a collection of compositions by composer Pavel Blatný on Panton Records performed by Gustav Brom Orchestra, Czechoslovak Radio Jazz Orchestra (JOČR), and Brno City String Quartet (Kvarteto Města Brna).

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