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
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
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