Setup Type is a Slovak type foundry and design studio founded in 2009 by Ondrej Jób. The studio’s activities range from designing retail and custom typefaces, to branding, and lettering, as well as research and software development in the field of type design and typography.
Selected Clients
- Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava, Slovakia
- Apropos, New Zealand
- Brandspank, New Zealand
- Bratiska, Slovakia
- Bratislava Metropolitan Institute, Slovakia
- Čierne diery, Slovakia
- Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
- DixonBaxi, United Kingdom
- Echt, Slovakia
- Fontstand, Netherlands
- Go Bigname, Slovakia
- Lyra, Slovakia
- madebythe:, Slovakia
- Make Move Think Foundation, Netherlands
- Milk Design Directors, Slovakia
- Pergamen, Slovakia
- Rádio_FM, Slovakia
- RTVS, Slovakia
- Sagmeister & Walsh, United States of America
- Slovak Design Center, Slovakia
- Slovak National Gallery, Slovakia
- Snask, Sweden
- Typotheque, Netherlands
Publications
2021
- Woodkit, Designum 1/2021, Slovakia
2020
- Ondrej Jób, Design It! Magazine, Slovakia
2019
- A typeface can always say something new, HNmagazín, Slovakia
2018
- Typography & Type Design, IdN Volume 24 No. 6, Hong Kong
- Fonts SK, Slovenské centrum dizajnu, Slovakia
- Saving The Type That Leads Us Through Streets, Denník N, Slovakia
2017
- The Streets Are Loosing Their Identity, Pravda, Slovakia
- Typodarium 2018, Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz, Germany
View Full ListAwards & Recognitions
2020
- National Prize For Design: Manual Project, SCD, Slovakia
2019
- National Prize For Design: Fullove, SCD, Slovakia
2018
- Tatra Banka Foundation Art Award: Manual Project, Nadácia Tatra Banky, Slovakia
2015
- Favorite Typefaces of 2014: Woodkit, Typographica, United States of America
- National Prize For Design: Colorcode, SCD, Slovakia
- Modern Cyrillic: Woodkit, Modern Cyrillic, Moscow, Russia
- Certificate of Excellence: Woodkit, TDC, New York, United States of America
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View Full ListExhibitions & Residencies
2020
- National Prize For Design, SCD, Slovakia
2019
- COLORLOVE, Satelit, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018
- Liptovský Hrádok Digest, Rumanský Art Centre, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
- Fullart, Galéria Ľudovíta Fullu, Ružomberok, Slovakia
2017
- Regular Line 2017, The Laundry, San Francisco, United States of America
- Regular Line 2017, Residency, The Laundry, San Francisco, United States of America
2016
- Fulla — Inspirations And Interpretations, Galéria Ľudovíta Fullu, Ružomberok, Slovakia
View Full ListSpeaking & Workshops
2019
- Never Trust A Type Designer, Design It!, Slovakia
- Glyphs in Branding, Workshop, 436 Lab, Slovakia
2018
- Fullart PechaKucha Night, Galéria Ľudovíta Fullu, Ružomberok, Slovakia
2016
- PechaKucha Night Trnava Vol. 20, Publikum/Štúdio tanca a pohybu Alegria, Trnava, Slovakia
- PechaKucha At Fulla, Publikum/Galéria Ľudovíta Fullu, Ružomberok, Slovakia
2011
- TYPO Lectures II – Ján Filípek, Ondrej Jób – Founding Type Foundries, Ateliér tvorby písma a typografie UMPRUM/Tranzitdisplay, Prague, Czech Republic
View Full ListBroadcast
2021
- Radio Devín on the road: Diera do sveta, RTVS, Slovakia
- Evening Topic: Type Design And Typography, Rádio Devín, Slovakia
- TalkFlow Podcast: The job that almost no one does, Detaility, Slovakia
- Metropolis: Signs, RTVS, Slovakia
- Type and Book Design, SCD, Slovakia
- DESIGN CLUB – Ondrej Jób and Michal Tornyai, SCD, Slovakia
- Home Is Home, Rádio Slovensko, Slovakia