David Březina—multilingual typography & typeface design

Bibliography

Articles for TYPO magazine

TYPO is a Czech-English magazine on Typography and visual communication. Most of the following articles has been translated from Czech to English (or vice versa) by the author himself.

  • TYPO 41: “Celeste”. Prague, 2010. — a short review of Celeste typeface by Christopher Burke.
  • TYPO 39: “Tomate & Lavigne Display”. Prague, 2010.
  • TYPO 36: “Klimax”. Prague, Jul 2009. — a short review of Klimax typeface by Ondrej Jób.
  • TYPO 36: “Odile & Elido”. Prague, Jul 2009. — an in-depth review of a serif Odile and sans Elido by Sibylle Hagmann.
  • TYPO 35: “MATD 2008”. Prague, May 2009. — a presentation of the MATD 2008 graduates’ typefaces.
  • Co-authored with: Vlachou, Irene. TYPO 33: “Maiola”. Prague, October 2008. — an in-depth review of Maiola typeface by Veronika Burian.
  • TYPO 33: “Symposium of the Brno Biennial”. Prague, October 2008. — a brief report from the symposium.
  • TYPO 31: “Greta”. Prague, June 2008. — an in-depth review of Greta typeface by Peter Biľak.
  • Typo 30: “Reading 2007: Skolar & Surat”. Prague, January 2008. — a presentation of the MATD 2007 graduates’ typefaces.
  • TYPO 29: “Non-Latin Typefaces”. Prague, November 2007. — an illustrated review of the “Non-Latin Typefaces” exhibitions and conference held in the St Bride Library in London and at the Department of Typography in Reading.

Articles online

  • Co-authored with: Pecina, Martin. Písmová anatomie 1.0 (Type Anatomy 1.0). Brno, 2008. http://typomil.com/anatomy/ — a visual overview of a typeface terminology and anatomy. The bilingual text was initially meant as a complement to Typo magazine typeface reviews. It introduces several improvements in comparison to other type-morphology diagrams.
  • On diacritics. 2009. Edited by John Boardley. http://ilovetypography.com/2009/01/24/on-diacritics/ — an article explaining the fundamentals behind the use and design of Latin diacritical marks. It has been translated to Russian by Vasily V. Melenchuk.

Academic papers

  • General issues in multi-lingual typography. The University of Reading, 2007.
  • Reflection on practise. The University of Reading, Reading, 2007. Download in PDF
  • The evolution of the Gujarati typographic script. The University of Reading, Reading, 2007.