09/10/2024
🟡TYPOFIX team🟡
Filip Blažek & Radek Sidun
main researchers
Filip Blažek (1974) is a graphic designer, typographer, teacher and writer. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Charles University in Prague. Since the mid-1990s, he has been focused on Czech typeface design and typography and has lectured on these topics at UMPRUM and at ARCHIP, as well as at numerous Czech and international conferences. He is actively involved in graphic design in the , which he founded in 2002. He is the author of the publications Practical Typography (2000, together with Pavel Kočička) and T ypokniha (2020, 2022) and has contributed to numerous other publications and periodicals.
Radek Sidun (1980) devotes himself primarily to fonts and typography. His graduation thesis at Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze dealt with the issue of diacritics in world languages. As a result, he is a sought-after consultant to font designers and type foundries worldwide. He’s served as a pedagogue at the Typosemestr Ateliér studio of the UMPRUM. He lectures on contemporary typography and its recent history at the same institution. He co-founded and run the Briefcase Type Foundry since 2012. He has received several awards for his projects, such as a Gold Medal at the European Design Awards 2013 and, lately, the Certificate of Typographic Excellence 2014 by the Type Directors Club for BC News, which he designed and edited. He is a member of the editorial team of the award-winning book TYPO9010 (2015), co-author of the book Jaroslav Benda 1882-1970: Typographic Design and Typeface (2019) and author of the publication Manual of Diacritics (2021). He regularly lectures at international and domestic design and typography festivals.
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