Radek Sidun (1980) devotes himself primarily to fonts and typography. His graduation thesis at the UMPRUM Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design dealt with the issue of diacritics in world languages. As a result, he is a sought-after consultant to font designers and type foundries worldwide. He’s served as a pedagogue at the Type Design and Typography studio of the UMPRUM Academy in Prague. He lectures on contemporary typography and its recent history at the same institution.

Together with Tomáš Brousil, he founded Briefcase Type Foundry in 2012. He has received several awards for his projects, such as a Gold Medal at the European Design Awards 2013 and, lately, the Certificate of Typographic Excellence 2014 by the Type Directors Club for BC News, which he designed and edited. He is a member of the editorial team of the award-winning book TYPO9010 (2015), co-author of the book Jaroslav Benda 1882-1970: Typographic Design and Typeface (2019) and author of the publication Manual of Diacritics: Case studies of newly designed accents for contemporary typefaces (2021).

He regularly lectures at international and domestic design and typography festivals.

(Photo by Jan Pelikán)