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Exhibition Slovak Design Award 2024 – Communication Design in Košice
Design without borders
DESIGN FORUM 2025. ILLUMINATED. History and future of Slovak lighting design
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
Aleksandra Stencel
Externá dizajnérka sklárne Rona, a. s., Lednické Rovne sa od roku 2013, sústreďuje na dizajn ručne vyrábaného skla a navrhovanie dekorov skla. Absolventka Akadémie výtvarných umení v Krakove (2012), v rokoch 2011 – 2012 absolvovala štipendijný pobyt v Ateliéri sklo na Vysokej škole výtvarných umení v Bratislave. Okrem dizajnu sa venuje aj vlastnej voľnej tvorbe v médiu skla a od roku 2014 spoločne s Patrikom Illom vytvárajú originálne autorské riešenia pod značkou ILLOLA. Tieto artefakty na hranici dizajnu a umenia využívajú dekor ako nositeľa emócie a významu, ako v projekte Secret Garden Continues.
