Biography
David Březina is a Czech type designer and typographer. He got his first Masters degree in informatics at the Masaryk University in Brno. During the studies he spent a term at the Denmarks Designskole in Copenhagen, where he became intrigued by letterforms. In 2007 he graduated from the MA in Typeface Design in Reading (UK). From 2004 to 2007 he also ran his own design studio, with projects in graphic, web and interface design.
His interest in multi-script type design and typography of multilingual and complex texts manifests in an award-winning typeface family Skolar and Surat for Latin and Gujarati. He has type design experience with Cyrillic, Greek, Gujarati, Devanagari, and various extensions of Latin. During his time in Denmark, he has also designed the sans-serif Codan inspired by the city of Copenhagen.
He currently works as an independent typeface/graphic designer and as an associate with Tiro Typeworks (Canada). He is sporadic writer (TYPO magazine, iLT) and lecturer who hopes to do more book design.
Services
- typeface design: retail and custom typefaces, extensions to existing typefaces, non-Latin typeface design
- typography: classic, multi-script and otherwise complex typography and typesetting
- font development: OpenType features, VOLT, production, FontLab Python macros
- graphic design: complex visual styles, logo & lettering design
- type-related consultancy
References
- Tiro Typeworks (help with multiscript-typeface design for Microsoft, programming)
- Monotype Imaging (programming, staff training)
- TypeTogether (in-house and retail typeface design)
- Amberg Technologies (visual style & interface design, staff training)
Awards
David’s works were awarded at the international competitions Granshan 2009, Modern Cyrillic 2009, ED Awards 2008; exhibited at the International Biennial of Graphic design in Brno 2006 and 2008; and mentioned in periodicals and blogs such as Typo, 2+3D, idpure, ilovetypography.com, …
