About

Setup Type is a Slovak type foundry and design studio founded in 2009 by Ondrej Jób. The studio’s activities include designing retail and custom typefaces, digitization of historical typefaces, branding, and lettering, as well as research and software development in the field of type design and typography.

Ondrej Jób is a type designer based in Bratislava, Slovakia. He holds MA degree in graphic design from Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia (2008) and in type design from Type and Media masters program at The Royal Academy of Arts (KABK) in Den Haag, the Netherlands (2009).

  • Selected Clients

  • Publications

    • 2024
      • Sans In Use, victionary, Hong Kong
    • 2023
      • .NOTDEF GLYPH I LOVE YOU, Bastarda Type, Colombia
    • 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
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  • Awards & Recognitions

    • 2024
      • Art Prix: Lúčnica. Colaboration: Matej Klíč/MADE BY VACULÍK, Zlatý klinec, Slovakia
    • 2022
      • National Prize For Design: UK Sans, SCD, Slovakia
    • 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
    • 2014
      • Favorite Typefaces of 2013: Odesta, Typographica, United States of America
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  • Online

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  • Exhibitions & 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
      • Made In Slovakia At Fula, Residency, Vytvorené na Slovensku, Slovakia
    • 2015
      • To The Runway!, Galéria Ľudovíta Fullu, Ružomberok, Slovakia
      • Made In Slovakia: Čičmany, Residency, Vytvorené na Slovensku, Slovakia
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  • Speaking & 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
      • DizajnDesign & Urtd, University of Žilina, Slovakia
      • TypoTopo, Workshop, OZ Poster/FreeDom Gallery, Báhoň, Slovakia
    • 2010
      • PechaKucha Night Bratislava Vol. 12, Punkt/MMC, Bratislava, Slovakia
    • 2009
      • Ondrej Jób, Ján Filípek – Type and Media 08/09, Academy Of Fine Arts And Design, Bratislava, Slovakia

  • Broadcast

    • 2023
      • Design at Any Cost / 30 Years of NCD, SCD, Slovakia
    • 2022
      • Design at Home, RTVS, Slovakia
    • 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