Latest news
Jozef Bajus: An Example at the Intersection
Lucia Mišeková: Working With Type Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult
The new exhibition dizajn.sk is open! Thank you for being there with us!
Newsletter
Exhibitions
Exhibition Slovak Design Award 2024 – Communication Design in Košice
DESIGN FORUM 2025. ILLUMINATED. History and future of Slovak lighting design
Design without borders
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
Ladislav Gatial
V roku 1945 skončil stolársku školu A. Nejedlého v Prievidzi, v roku 1949 Majstrovskú stolársku školu v Prešove a v roku 1962 absolvoval SPŠD v Spiškej Novej Vsi. V rokoch 1951 až 1979 pracoval v podniku Tatra nábytok v Pravenci a bol jeho najvýraznejšou osobnosťou v rámci nábytkového dizajnu. Pre podnik navrhol viac ako polovicu produkcie: stoličky, čalúnené sedacie súpravy a iné druhy nábytku. Jeho stoličky sú minimalistické, odľahčené, ale zároveň maximálne funkčné.
