The BC Exalt typeface, created originally in 2014 as Filip Kraus's master's thesis, has an intriguing backstory. In this interview, Filip reflects on the origins of BC Exalt, delving into his creative process and the specific design choices that shaped the typeface. We discuss its place in the field of type design, where countless new fonts emerge. Despite being officially released in 2024, BC Exalt has made its way into various projects over the past decade and has already been unexpectedly used in different contexts.
A custom typeface for fine metal processing, engravings at small sizes.
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As a new type of residential unit, the development of prefabricated housing estates also brought with them a negative phenomenon in the form of worsened orientation. The mutual similarity of the prefab buildings, the large distances between them, ground floors consisting of identical housing units instead of storefronts, frequent dead ends and the general blurring of the term “street” contributed to significant disorientation in these neighbourhoods. The developers of the Jižní Město II housing estate in Prague were the first to actively address this problem in practice. They succeeded in imprinting a uniqueness on a fundamentally monotonous environment not only with an unusual urban design but primarily with a comprehensive and highly sophisticated orientation system – one of a kind in the context of Czechoslovak housing estates.
