Radek Sidun

Radek Sidun devotes himself primarily to fonts and typography. His graduation thesis at the UMPRUM Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design dealt with the issue of diacritics in world languages. As a result, he is a sought-after consultant to font designers and type foundries world over. He’s serving as a pedagogue at the Type Design and Typography studio of the UMPRUM Academy in Prague. Together with Tomáš Brousil he founded Briefcase Type Foundry in 2012. He is also a member of editorial and design team of the TYPO9010 book. He has received several awards for his various projects, such as a Gold Medal at the European Design Awards 2013, lately the Certificate of Typographic Excellence 2014 by Type Directors Club for BC News which he designed and edited. He become the Graphic designer of the year 2015 at the Czech Grand Design Awards.