Donika Venkova – Donika Venkova album art
This contribution is being compiled on Donika Venkova’s seventy-sixth birthday of 19th November 2023 and features her eponymous debut LP from half a century ago.
Her name for the front cover is set in Futura Black, in Latin script in the top right-hand corner and in Cyrillic script in the bottom left-hand corner. It would appear that the initial Д in “Доника” has been adapted from the Latin A, with the cross bar whited out and with a pair of “feet” added. Further thereto, the Cyrillic И is a Latin N flipped vertically, the rest of the name consisting of glyphs shared with Latin script. The “BTA 1639” is, like the main subsidiary text on the rear cover, set in Edel-Grotesk and also the track-listing has been set in an X-shaped form by means of indentation. Credits and other small text on the back are in Literaturnaya.
This occasion has been celebrated with a post at “Girls of the Golden East”.
3 Comments on “Donika Venkova – Donika Venkova album art”
Same year, similar design concept: Inside Out by Bohannon. Given the physical (+7000 km) and political distance between the designers’ countries it is likely nothing but a a sign of the Zeitgeist that both albums feature a similar idea.
Well, that’s the year to which this contribution has been altered, my originally having it two years previously. I’m afraid that makes my new page at 'Girls Of The Golden East’, linked from the Blog post mentioned, look a bit silly, as that was to mark the 'Golden Anniversary’ of the album. At any rate, I was glad that my font-identification was correct in one of the three cases for this Bohannon album. But Baby Teeth is one of the more memorable font names and is very distinctive.
Regarding your remarks on the similarity of cover design I can see what you mean and maybe I’ll keep my eyes open for other examples of that basic design concept from 1975 (or 1973!).
Oops, that was my mistake. I found an April 1975 date on the Discogs platform, but failed to realize that this refers to a later export version. The record indeed was first released in 1973, as you had stated, and with this cover art. I have changed back the date. Apologies!