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Design in the Fight for a Better World
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
DESIGN FORUM 2026: New Materialists
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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
Štefan Klein
Štefan Klein (1959) is an industrial designer and a constructer. He has designed more than 20 vehicles for various Slovak as well as international manufacturers – motorcycles, buses, diggers, locomotives and others. He received the attention of the world public with his “flying car“ project when he introduced it at a prestigious SAE Aerotech Expo in Montreal and at the Pioneers Festival in Vienna (2014). He created the first version of the aeromobile as a part of his thesis 25 years ago. The serial 03 version is currently being prepared for series production. Š. Klein is a head of the transport design department at the Academy of fine arts and design in Bratislava. He cooperates with leading automobile brands such as Audi, VW, BMW, Ford, Renault and Škoda. His students hold important positions in European motor manufacturers. In 2015 he was awarded the Honors of Ľudovít Štúr by the Slovak President and in 2016 he received the Award of the Ministry of culture.
