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
DOS – oblikovalski presežek 2024 – for Dotless type
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