Nioki & Tipometar

In 2006, Tipometar launched a project called ‘Cyrillic As A Gift’ (Ћирилице на поклон) with the aim to provide all those who want to use the Cyrillic alphabet on computers with quality typefaces, for free! The realization of this project was funded by the Ministry of Culture of Serbia.

Every year, Tipometar organizes the production of a new set of Cyrillic and Latin fonts by different authors, and distributes them through their site. Fonts families from the previous years are:
Resavska BG, Resavska BG Sans, Adamant BG, Neoplanta BG, Lovely BG, Platan BG

The newest addition to this wonderful collection is my type family, Nioki!

The versions of Nioki which have been made available through this project include the basic Latin and Serbian Cyrillic characters, and are not full versions of the type family (which caters to a larger number of languages) – hence the addition of BG to the name.

The font family Nioki BG comprises of the following 3 fonts:
Nioki BG Regular, Nioki BG Italic, and Nioki BG Bold
Click and download them – they’re free!
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Nioki BG is a family of linear sans-serif fonts, meant for use in larger text sizes. The characteristics of these fonts are subtle curved strokes and protruding terminal endings. The simplicity of the letter forms suit the needs of contemporary graphic design, and will look great on posters and packaging design, while their playful character makes them suitable for larger sizes in publications such as childrens’ books. The fonts contain all basic Latin letters and punctuation, as well as letters for the Serbian Cyrillic and Latin. They are available in OpenType format, which is recognized and used by all contemporary operating systems and programs.

Nioki is a type family I began during my studies at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, and was one of my graduation projects. Since then, I continued to develop it in my spare time and during the TipoBerba and TypeClinic workshops. Prior to its release through Tipometar, I worked closely with my  mentor Olivera Stojadinović for final tuning. Nioki is still a work in progress – I created it using Multiple Master technology in FontLab (which you can see a little preview of here) which enables the creation of a large range of weights simultaneously…

More coming soon!
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Sneak Peek: Nioki Font Family

TipoBerba 2012

TipoBerba 2012 // Cyrillic Type Design Workshop
TipoBerba 2012 was the 2nd Cyrillic Type Design Workshop, organized by Tipometar, and funded by the Ministry of Culture of Serbia. The workshop lasted ten days and was held in the village Tršić – the birthplace of Serbian linguist/language reformer, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. For more information (and a look at all the posters) check out the TipoBerba Behance page. More in Serbian here and here.

Vedran Eraković, Jana Oršolić and Borut Vild gave lectures about various aspects of design – and presents! The booklet below is a type specimen for Balkan, a new typeface system by Nikola Djurek and Marija Juza, which consists of Latin and Cyrillic scripts.

TipoBerba 2011 Exhibition – Posters from last year’s workshop were displayed during Vuk’s Fair.

Stop! Hammer time! When we weren’t working, we spent most of our time fearing for our lives (the woods of Tršić are home to one of the Serbia’s most notorious serial killers – Tkač).

Featured!

Pretty cool! TypeClinic was featured on Design:Related and Behance.

TypeClinic Workshop

TypeClinic // International Type Design Workshop
The 5th International Type Design Workshop, TypeClinic (previously TipoRenesansa) was held in the Trenta Valley, Slovenia, from the 19th-26th of August. During the workshop, I continued to work on my graduation font Nioki, using Multiple Master in FontLab. If you are interested in participating in the 6th (winter) workshop, send an email to tomato@tomatokosir.com. Squirrel nipples!

Inex Film Fest Off

Inex Film – an abandoned building in Karaburma, Belgrade – has been occupied for the last year by a self-organized collective of young creatives who were in desperate need of a space to work, exchange ideas and organize non-proftit activities and cultural events. The idea behind the Inex Film Fest Off was to gather creatives from various fields (music, video, illustration, fine arts, etc) and help raise funds for further renovation in an event which consisted of a number of exhibitions, concerts and parties. For more info click here, and here. I exhibited my Imprint Shadow Ladies series, which can also be seen in this post. Click on the photos below to see some snippets of the exhibitions / studio spaces.

Belgrade Design Week

The year 2011 marked the debut of BDW’s new project, 100% Future Serbia, which presented almost 150 Serbian designers in 115 shop windows – a unique design exhibition unlike anything previously held in Belgrade. This year, for the second time, visitors and passers-by were able to see the exhibited designs while walking from Kalemegdan to Slavija in over 100 shop windows. My illustrations were exhibited in the National Library of Belgrade, which was the main venue and where all the conferences were held. For a better look at the illustrations, click here. For more information about the project, the designers and photos of all the exhibited works, visit the official BDW website. If you wold like to see photos of my shop window from last year’s event, click here.

FeMikser

Femikser was a program within the Mikser Festival in Belgrade, which consisted of a number of different events. It was (and is) an extension of the Femix project, which specializes in the promotion of female creativity in various fields (poetry, music, film, street art, etc) – for more info click here.
I took part in the street art section of the program – along with Dina Bralović, Marica Kicušić, Marija Grujić, Ivana Radić, and Olgica Terzić. Click on the photos below for a closer look.

AniFest 2012

Mister Sloff was selected for the 11th AniFest in Teplice, Czech Republic – and I was invited to go for a few days! Teplice was lovely and the festival was great – I had the opportunity to see a lot of great films and the Laika Studio lecture – which was amazing! We got to see behind-the-scenes unofficial shots of how Coraline and ParaNorman were made – and how much work goes into one frame when making feature-length puppet films. Respect! We got to hold the puppets as well!

Spray Paint Quickie