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Granularity of Origin: Berlin Theses on Identity
Summer in Design Museum
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I Can’t Get It Out of My Mind: Contemporary Slovak Design in Vienna
Summer Exhibition at the Design Museum
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Lecture by Spanish designer Curro Claret at Slovak Design Center
Slovak Design Awarded Internationally 1.
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Design Work
QOD typeface for car licence plates
The QOD typeface, derived from geometrically constructed sans-serifs, features uniform stroke thickness and equally spaced characters. License plate typefaces must have easily distinguishable characters, so QOD letters are more angular, and numbers are rounded. Easily confused characters like B, S, and 8 or O, D, and 0 are emphasized for distinctiveness. Selective use of serifs (C, G, I, J, L, S, T, 1, 7) enhances uniqueness. QOD has three styles (A, B, C), each designed for different plate sizes. The typeface was created at the Department of Visual Communication, AFAD in Bratislava.
People of Design
Igor Didov
Po skončení Štátnej umeleckopriemyselnej školy, na ktorej zmaturoval v odbore Grafika, študoval v rokoch 1953 - 1958 odbor Dejín umenia a histórie na Filozofickej fakulte UK v Bratislave. Hneď po skončení štúdií pôsobil ako asistent na VŠVU v Bratislave, vedúci oddelenia ÚPV v SNG, pracoval na Povereníctve školstva a kultúry, neskôr ako riaditeľ Rady výtvarnej kultúry a výroby na Slovensku, v 70. rokoch bol riaditeľ Inštitútu priemyselného dizajnu a súčasne pôsobil ako pedagóg na SPŠ Technickej v Košiciach. Popritom aktívne realizoval vlastné návrhy pre priemysel, zapájal sa do súťaží a organizoval viaceré kolektívne výstavy autorov z oblasti úžitkového umenia, vrátane zahraničných.
