STORM TYPE FOUNDRY - Key Persons


Jean Jannon

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-cutt...

Jiří Rathouský

Jiří Rathouský se narodil se 20. dubna 1924 v Praze. Grafický designér a typograf, který se věnoval široké škále výtvarných disciplín - knižní grafice, tvorbě firemní identity a vizuálního stylu významnýc...

Josef Týfa

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 h...

Justus Erich Walbaum

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 tim...

Rostislav Vaněk

Rostislav Vaněk (1945), typographer and graphic designer, who has worked in nearly all fields of graphic design. He worked on logos, posters, books, exhibitions, large visual communication projects (Pr...

Trivia Sans

Job Titles:
  • Vida

Vojtěch Preissig

Job Titles:
  • Graphic Designer
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 A...