Birth: 19th of July 1962, Dorog, Hungary
"I like to form identity of my clients’ firm, product or service solidly with them. (It is a trusted liaison, means we are on the same side.) I am lucky because the clients look for me as yet. There are many of them whom we think together 20 years now."
Professional qualificaton:
1980 – István Tömörkény Secondary Art School, Szeged (H)_sculpture
1987 – Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (H)_Graphics (Art work)
1987 – Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (H)_Graphic design elective course, 1 year
1988 – Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (H)_Graphics master course, 1 year
Awards:
2011 – Golden Drawing Pin Prize – for graphic design excellence in the past years
2012 – Munkácsy Mihály-Prize
Individual exhibitions:
1996 – Béla Bartók Cultural Centre, Gallery B, Szeged (H)
2010 – University of Szeged, Congress Centre, Szeged (H)
Grouped exhibitions (selected):
Since 2002 – Dáblin, Szombathely (H)
2002 – Vigadó Gallery_Trakta (Cakes and ale), Budapest (H) [Élőfejek (Living Heads) group]
2004 – Meermanno Museum_Bookmark, Den Haag (NL) [Csatai Péterrel és Szegi Amondóval]
2007 – Typosalon and Hungarian Type Society_Kassák 120, Budapest (H)
2007 – Society of Hungarian Graphis Designers and Typographers_Helvetica in Hungary, Budapest (H)
2008 – Design Terminal_In Competition: a magyar design a világpiacon, Budapest (H)
2008 – MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) and Schule für Gestaltung Ravensburg_Curious: Searching and stepping over borders, Budapest (H)
2010 – Klingspor Museum_Type in good shape, Offenbach (D)
2010 – BITS MMX (Bangkok International Typographic Symposium)_Type doesn’t grow on trees, Bangkok (TH)
My fonts used by others:
Since 2005 – Logos for Twilight book series (USA, H) – Zephyr
2005 – Punctum Magazin (H) [Terv (Plan) Visual brigade] – several
2005 – Items Magazine (NL) – several
2005 – Typo Magazin (CZ) [Filip Blažek, Pavel Zelenka] – several
2005 – Creative Review (UK) [Gavin Lucas] – Plexo
2005 – Le Monde Diplomatique (Hungarian edition) [Tamás Seres] – Tyrnavia
2007 – Simon Loxley: The Secret History of Letters (Hungarian edition) [Plusminus] – several
2008 – G4 Magazine (PL, CZ, SK, H) [Plusminus] – Minerva Modern
2008 – Expo Zaragoza – Identity for Hungarian national pavilion (E) [Job Art Studio] – FM Aqua, FM Éva
2008 – The New York Times Magazine (USA) [Go For It Design, Nancy Harris Rouemy] – Incognito, Zanzibar
2010 – Hungarians in Bauhaus, Pécs (H) [Zsolt Czakó] – Dessau
2010 – Brush’n’Script book (D) [Verlag Hermann Schmitt, Mainz] – Zanzibar
2010 – Tipoirka (Typonotes) (H) [Ferenc Nádai] – Feniks
Job experience:
Job Art Studio – designer, art director
Hungaria national identity (Mac-Line Hungary and ITD–Hungary), Expo Zaragoza 2008–identity for Hungarian pavilion (Ministry of Economy and Transport), identity for University of Szeged, Magellan/Median/United/BikePositive brand identities (Cseke), EDF Démász brand and firm identity, Est.tv (program and magazine) identity...
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Fontana and Fontmunkások Type Foundries – co-founder, type designer
47 fonts/font families on hand
Available:
www.fountaintype.com,
www.t26.com,
www.internationalhouseoffonts.com,
www.psyops.com,
www.myfonts.com (in progress),
www.veer.com,
www.fontshop.com
Membership:
Hungarian Type Society – co-founder, member
http://typesociety.hu
Society of Hungarian Graphic Designers and Typographers
www.matt.org.hu
Art camps, symposions:
Experimental Graphic Art Camp, Makó, 1989 and 1990 (H)
Bibliography:
Typo Magazin #16 (CZ) – Krisztina Somogyi: Hungaricums – Type Designers from Hungary (Typografové z Madarska), 2005
Plusminus online magazine (H) [Krisztina Somogyi, Zsolt Czakó]
www.plusminus.hu
Simon Loxley: The Secret History of Letters (Hungarian edition) [Plusminus]
Digitart Magazine #7 (H) – Róbert Kravjánszki: Gábor Kóthay, 2004
