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Radek Sidun

Radek Sidun (b. 1980) wrote a graduation thesis at the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (UMPRUM) (Graphic Design and Visual Communication, MgA. 2010) on diacritics in world languages. He has worked at Cornel Windlin's Zurich studio for two years. He is currently based in Prague, where he is an associate editor of Komfort magazine and teaches at the Type Design and Typography studio of the UMPRUM Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design.

Designer at the Suitcase Type Foundry of RePublic (a 2004 revival, done with Tomas Brousil, of Public by Stanislav Marso, 1955. Note that Public was used to set the text of a Czechoslovak Communist party newspaper, Rudé Právo). At Briefcase, he published BC Alphapipe and BC News (for which he received a TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence 2015).

Diacritics link. Type design and typography web site.

At ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, he spoke on typefaces for television, in which he gave an overview of Czech television type from the 1960s until 2018, showing original typeface designs, archive materials, current approaches, rare videos, and type in motion.

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