Evolution – two semestral work in the studio of Type design and typography at Prague’s UMPRUM academy. 19 typefaces, 127 fonts by 16 students.

The almost complete Briefcase team. Only Jana Horáčková is missing in the photo; Jana was involved in research work among tribal communities of the Alto Purus river basin in Amazonia at the time the phot was taken. Photo: Michal Šeba

1/Reformulate specimen I.: Jakub Samek displays a good sense of balance between the traditional and the calculated, between the banal and the thought-out. For him, the optical impression and aspiration for perfect legibility are more important than perfect consistency of individual characters, taking a free, but educated approach.
2/Ernesto Neto: The Reformulate typeface used in the poster for the exhibition “Blue Mist Gray Girls” – in Memoriam Miroslav Tichý in GASK (2011). Reformulate proves that even a non-proportional font, created using a very simple principle of shadowing, need not appear cold, drab and artificial.
3/Reformulate specimen II.

Jakub Samek (1988) is student of the Studio of Typography at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He is a co-founder of studio Mütanta (2011). Photo: Michal Šeba