Speaker Radek Sidun

Radek Sidun (1980) devotes himself primarily to fonts and typography. His graduation thesis at the UMPRUM Academy
dealt with the issue of diacritics in world languages. As a result, he is a sought-after consultant to font designers and
type foundries worldwide. He’s served as a pedagogue at the Type Design and Typography studio of the UMPRUM Prague.
He lectures on contemporary typography and its recent history at the same institution. He co-founded run the Briefcase
Type Foundry since 2012. He has received several awards for his projects, such as a Gold Medal at the European Design
Awards 2013 and, lately, the Certificate of Typographic Excellence 2014 by the Type Directors Club for BC News, which
he designed and edited. He is a member of the editorial team of the award-winning book TYPO9010 (2015), co-author
of the book Jaroslav Benda 1882-1970: Typographic Design and Typeface (2019) and author of the publication Manual
of Diacritics: Case studies of newly designed accents for contemporary typefaces (2021). He regularly lectures at
international and domestic design and typography festivals.