Until recently the story of his type face ended with mediocre digital versions, which did not get at the root of its inspiration. Our pursuit of this paramount body type face of the 20th century began ...
The engraver Jean Jannon ranks among the significant representatives of French typography of the first half of the 17th century. He was born in 1580, apparently in Switzerland. He trained as punch-cutt...
born 26th of December, 1956 in Prague. Studies: Secondary School of Printing in Prague, dpt. of design for print, 1972-1976; Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague; (specialised studio of b...
Studied at the dept. of typography of prof. Jan Solpera at Prague's AAAD (1994-2000), earned experiences in czech magazines (Živel, Navigátor, Reflex). Graphic designer and typographer. Marek is a co-a...
Accomplished Czech graphic designer, painter, illustrator, typographer and teacher. Vojtěch Preissig was born on the 31st of July, 1873, in Světec near Bílina. In Prague, he studied at the Academy of A...
Jiří Rathouský se narodil se 20. dubna 1924 v Praze. Grafický designér a typograf, který se věnoval široké škále výtvarných disciplín – knižní grafice, tvorbě firemní identity a vizuálního stylu významnýc...
Born 1939 in Jindřichův Hradec. Studied at the Art School in Prague (1954-58) and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (1959-1965); at the latter institution he taught from 1973 to...
Trained as a graphic designer and freelance illustrator, I started to make fonts for my own books in the early 90s, but in early 20s, as there are already plenty of nice fonts everywhere, I’ve partly m...
In 1988 Yvonna graduated at the University of Economics in Prague. From 1990 till 2003 worked as financial analyst and financial director in several international companies. Since 2004 till present tim...
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In terms of type design experience, Josef Týfa was self-trained. As inspirative sources he indicated Jaroslav Benda, modern graphic design and architecture. After his studies at school of advertising h...
Rostislav Vaněk (1945), typographer and graphic designer, who has worked in nearly all fields of graphic design. He worked on logos, posters, books, exhibitions, large visual communication projects (Pr...
The lack of emotions gave rise to desperate Romanticism, which did not manifest itself in book typography at all, as if the division of work in art had marked the industrial revolution. At the same tim...
