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COMMON SPACE PLATFORM CONFERENCE
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
Pavel Blažo
Grafický dizajnér Pavel Blažo študoval v rokoch 1957 – 1961 na Strednej škole umeleckého priemyslu (prof. Fikari a Štrba). Po skončení štúdia pracoval v rokoch 1961 – 1969 v Československej televízii v Bratislave ako vedúci grafik. Kontaktoval „západonemeckú“ firmu Berthold, ktorá bola jednotkou vo výrobe zariadení pre „malú fotosadzbu“. Firma so súhlasom televíznych ekonómov priviezla kompletné zariadenie na fotosadzbu a bratislavské štúdio sa tým stalo priekopníkom v televíznej grafike. V roku 1969 bol z televízie za spoluprácu s Nemcami potrestaný a musel odísť.
