doc. MgA. Radek Sidun
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doc. MgA. Radek Sidun
1980, Turnov
sidun.cz
A typographer and graphic designer, he graduated from UMPRUM’s Studio of Graphic Design and Visual Communication (2004–2010). He has been teaching and conducting research at UMPRUM since 2013. He began as an assistant at the Studio of Type Design and Typography (2013–2017), which he subsequently co-led (2017–2019). From 2016 to 2019, he served as Head of the Department of Graphic Design. In 2019, he completed his habilitation and was appointed Associate Professor.
From 2019 to 2023, he served as Vice-Rector for External Relations and International Cooperation at UMPRUM. He initiated the establishment of UMlab, a platform fostering collaboration between the university and industry, contributed to the development of cooperation with the Association of Industrial Design, and helped establish a student internship programme. He also founded UMPRUM Online and contributed to the preparation of the exhibition Design and Transformation, which formed part of the Czech Republic’s international presentation in Brussels.
Since 2023, he has been working at UMPRUM as a research fellow. He leads Typofix, an international typography research project supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR), involving experts from numerous European countries. His long-term work focuses on research, teaching, and the development of typography and type design. He regularly lectures at universities in the Czech Republic and abroad, as well as at international professional conferences.
Together with Tomáš Brousil, he founded Briefcase Type Foundry in 2014. 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.