WORK

 

2019 –

– freelance type designer /

– freelance graphic designer

– co-founder Type Salon

– founder Dotless type

– Teaching Assistant @ Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana

– Teaching Assistant @ Faculty of Desgin (2023–)

 

2017 – 2019

Type designer @ Dalton Maag, London


2015 – 2016

Type designer @ Atlas Font Foundry, Berlin (Intern and Employed)


2012 – 2015

Freelance graphic designer and photographer

 

? : alja.herlah@gmail.com

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VOLUNTEER

 

2021

Experimental calligraphy, Tipo Brda @ Mestni muzej, Ljubljana
3 days long workshop (co-organiser)


2019

Type Days, @ Poligon – creative center.
4 days long type design workshop (co-organiser)

Tipo Brda 25th – Secesija Now @ Pliskovica
One week long type design workshop with the focus on art nouveau lettering made in Slovenia (co-organiser)


2018
Type Days Ljubljana, one week long type design workshop (co-organiser)

Tipo Brda Sign painting workshop, organizing & coordinating one week long workshop of signpainting and lettering (co-organiser)

Bolje na črnem, calligraphy workshop (co-organiser)

Typography meetup, Poligon, Ljubljana (co-organiser)


2017
Type Days Ljubljana, one week long type design workshop (co-organiser)

Tipo Brda Sign painting workshop, one week long workshop – signpainting and letterin (co-organiser)


2016

Tipo_čvek, talks in the field of typography (co-organiser)

EXHIBITIONS


2022

Wesna typeface @ Mestna hiša, Ljubljana

 

29 črk za 25 let, Tipo Brda @ group exhibition, Figovec, Ljubljana 

 

2021

Plecnik typeface @ Plečnikova hiša, Ljubljana

 

Plaktivat Solidarnost competition posters, Figovec outdoor, Ljubljana

 

Plaktivat Solidarnost competition posters, Gin&Juice bar, Ljubljana

2020

 

Stay Sane Stay Safe

(poster as part of the whole exhibition)

 

@ 3 sec. gallery, Breda, The Netherlands

 

Tam Tam covid poster @ Slovenia (poster exhibited in Murska Sobota)

 

2019

What are your beliefs?

@ Ulična Galerija, Layerjeva hiša Kranj

 

Tipografija študentov ALUO in NTF @ NUK, Ljubljana (typeface exhibited among other projects)

 

2018

Pangramme:learning type design @ Museum für Drukkunst, Leipzig, Germany (typeface Alica as part of the whole exhibition)

 

2017

Pangramme:learning type design @ ATypI, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada (typeface Alica as part of the whole exhibition)

Pangramme:learning type design @ Biennal of Graphic Design of Chaumont, France (typeface Alica as part of the whole exhibition)

 

2016

Pangramme:learning type design @ Fine Art and Design School Amiens, France (typeface Alica as part of the whole exhibition)

 

Pangramme:learning type design @ Lorraine Fine Art School, Metz, France (typeface Alica as part of the whole exhibition)

 

2015

Bodi črka – postani beseda @ Vodnikova domačija, Ljubljana (part of type design/typography/calligraphy  student exhibition University of Ljubljana)

 

TALKS

 

2020

Festival Indigo @ Ljubljana (presenting new typeface Spektra with Type Salon)

 

TYPWKND @ online festival ((presenting new typeface Spektra with Type Salon)

 

TYPOGRAPHY DAY 2020 @ Amman, Jordan (presenting new typeface Univerza Sans)

 

Typographics @ online (part of online feedback Alphacrit by Alphabethes, not actual talk!)

 

2016

Tipogovori @ Vodnikova domačija, Ljubljana (presenting my work as type designer)

 

2015

Zakaj še ena? @ Kreativna Zadruga Žalec (presenting typeface Alica)

 

TEACHING / WORKSHOPS 

 

2019 –

Teaching assistant @ Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana

 

2022

Adobe Illustrator @ University of Ljubljana, 3-days workshop for students

 

Adobe InDesign @ University of Ljubljana, 2-days workshop for students

 

2021–22

The alphabettes mentorship program (mentor to MB)

 

2020

How to shape your Latin? @ Alharf House, Amman, Jordan

 

Summer type design workshop, ALUO, Ljubljana (Gerry Leonidas as mentor, I was assistant)

 

2019

Type Days Ljubljana, Ljubljana (mentoring 5-days-long workshop) 

Secesija Now, Pliskovica (co- mentoring 5-days-long workshop) 

 

2018 

Type Days Ljubljana, Tipo Brda

(mentoring 5-days-long workshop) 

 

AWARDS

 

2024

Brumen Biennial of Slovenian Design 2024, award for typeface Wesna

 

 

Brumen Biennial of Slovenian Design 2024, recognition for the lettering Film Bar

 

 

 

2022

Brumen Biennial of Slovenian Design.

Typeface Univerza Sans

Typefaces Spektra & Plecnik


 

 

 

 

 

Special mention, Granshan, 12th Typeface Design Competition 2021/2022

 

2021

Modern Cyrillic 21: 

Spektra Cyrillic on of the winners

Plaktivat: poster design competition (one of finalists)

2017
PRINT Typography & Lettering Award: Best in Class winner in the Student Typeface Design category

18849-Print-Type-BEST

2016
Pangramme: The Jury’s Selection

 

EDUCATION

 

2013 – 2016

Masters’s degree
Thesis: Theory of The Stroke in Designing Non-Latin Typeface Family

Graphic and interactive communications @ Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, Ljubljana

2009 – 2013

Bachelor’s degree
Thesis: Development of Serif and Sans Serif Typeface on The Same Skeleton

Graphic and interactive communications @ Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, Ljubljana

 

TRAINING

2019

Arabic Type Design Workshop, Beirut, Lebanon

2018

Brush lettering, All eyes on type, Rotterdam

2017

Arabic Lettering @ Amsterdam, Lara Caplan and Kristyan Sarkis

2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Tipo Brda, one week type design workshop

2016
Bilingual Arabic & Latin Monogram Design, @ Typo Berlin, Tarek Atrissi

Ligatures @ Typo Berlin, Marko Jovanovac

 

TypeCooker Sketching Session @ Typo Berlin
Erik van Blokland, Paul van der Laan