Speaker Samuel Čarnoký

Samuel Čarnoký is a graduate of the Studio of Visual Communication at the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University of Košice (2006) and has held a teaching position there since 2009. In 2015, he finished doctorate study at the Faculty of Arts in Košice and during 2013–2014, Samuel completed a study stay at the Studio of Type Design and Typography at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague (Czech Republic). In terms of graphic design, he focuses on type design, typography, and editorial design. He actively cooperates with LTTR/CORP on the creation of skeleton fonts with the digital tool LTTR/INK. He is the author and co‑author of the publications about typography in Slovakia — Fonts SK: Digitized type design in Slovakia; Neon Lights and Advertising Typography in Eastern Slovakia until 1989. He has been designing and publishing own typefaces under the type foundry CarnokyType since 2010. He was awarded the Slovak Design Award 2016 and 2018 — Communication Design.

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