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 in Nové Hrady Castle, the place where a part of the depository of old prints of the National Museum Library is kept, in the summer of 1999. Thanks to the understanding of the librarian Petr Mašek we were allowed to study and photograph four rare volumes from Baskerville's printing office, dating from about 1760. We se…
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-cutter in Paris. From 1610 he worked in the printing office of the Calvinist Academy in Sedan, where he was awarded the title "Imprimeur de son Excellence et de l'Academie Sédanoise". He began working on his own alphabet in 1615, so that he would not have to order type for his printing office from Paris, Holland and Germa…
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 book culture and typography, professor Milan Hegar, 1976-1982).
The artwork of Otakar Karlas is based on type: it is unique thanks to the respect and tribute it pays to the homage of Czech typography. His style is precise, well-planned, economical, and modest. His implemented works stand out by their concentrated f…
Yvonna graduated from the University of Economics in Prague. She worked as financial analyst and financial director in international companies before she joins our team. Nowadays Yvonna works as economic advisor and accountant for a few freelancers.
Rudolf Koch's contribution to modern typography could be regarded as celebration of good old calligraphic school, comparable to Oldřich Menhart's or Herrmann Zapf's approach.
He's the author of one of the most beautiful blackletter typefaces, the feather-light "Frühling". Since it was never published in digital form, we took the liberty to draw our own paraphrase, adapted to computer technology, including numerous swashes, ligatures and alternates as OpenType functions. We could work without respect to metal li…
Hardware/software expert, database systems specialist and coordinator. Libor was involved in czech computer business since early nineties, nowadays he works as freelanced programmer for various companies, including Storm Type Foundry.
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 Arts, Architecture and Design, after finishing his studies in a specialised studio of decorative architecture directed by Professor Bedřich Ohmann, he left for Paris, where he worked as an apprentice in Alfons Mucha’s studio. He also studied the technique of colour etching and copperplate engraving with Emile Delaun…
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 2003. The focus of his work as a designer is on lettering, which to him is not only a means to express a verbal message, but also the most effective artistic-emotive element. His activities encompass graphic design, book graphics, posters, logotypes, graphics in architecture and stamp design. He designs typefaces and…
Studies:
1981-85 High school for arts and crafts, Prague
1985-91 The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, prof. Jan Solpera
Pedagogic activities:
1991-95 assistant of prof. Jan Solpera at the Type & Typography studio, AAAD Prague, and also in 2002-03.
2003 - 2008 head of Type & Typography studio, The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
Business:
1993-4 founded Storm Type Foundry
2004 opened the first Czech online font shop www.stormtype.com
Besides that he does alot of graph…
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 he worked for various export companies in Prague as commercial designer, and contributed significantly to cultivation of corporate style in 50s and 60s. In the half of 60s he focuses more on type design and wins several contests announced by state type foundry Grafotechna. Throughout his whole career Týfa designed hun…
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 time, at the beginning of the 19th century, when Caspar David Friedrich paints his snow-covered graves with forked, mutilated trees, Justus Erich Walbaum sits quietly in his Weimar workshop, establishing the German branch of Neo-classical typography. Beside Didot and Bodoni, Walbaum seems to stand rather on the margin of…