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Design in the Fight for a Better World
Granularity of Origin: Berlin Theses on Identity
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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
Martin Benka
Význnamný slovenský maliar, činný aj v oblasti grafického dizajnu a typografie pochádzal z Kiripolca. V Hodoníne sa učil za maliara natierača potom v rokoch 1906 – 1909 pracoval vo Viedni a súkromne študoval maliarstvo u E. Neumanna, neskôr v rokoch 1910 – 1914 študoval u Aloisa Kalvodu krajinomaľbu. Od roku 1918 začal vytvárať pre svojich priateľov a známych exlibrisy, v ktorých využíval vlastné kreslené písma. V roku 1926 začal pracovať pre Československú obec sokolskú, jeho spolupráca trvala 12 rokov. V tom istom roku začala aj jeho spolupráca s Maticou slovenskou, ktorá trvala takmer až do Benkovej smrti.
