STORM TYPE FOUNDRY

I thought it might be useful to describe the beginnings and development of my type founding and my way of becoming a type-designer out of a graphic designer. In 1991 I ended up my studies on the AAAD in Prague in the studio of prof. Jan Solpera. In those times my colleagues, young Czech graphic designers, and I witnessed the end of the analogue era in all parts of design. We used to hand our final layouts to a client or a printing factory as paper reflective collage or just outline drawing. When scans were needed, each slide had to be put in a transparent jacket marked by desired size and crop commands. When it comes to typography, we were limited to a short font list of a specific printer. The typefaces in phototypesetting technology were usually poorly rendered revivals of classical originals, whereas the display typefaces on matrices used in titling units were slightly better. These were built on the principle of a photographic magnifier machine, where the letters were placed on a..

Also known as: Storm Type

Primary location: Praha 6 Czech Republic