Stjepan Fileki

Born on May 8, 1928 in Zemun, Yugoslavia. Graduated from Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade.

Professor at the Faculy of Applied Arts in Belgrade (now retired). He lectured Calligraphy (history and practice), Theory of Form and Typography at art academies in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Priština and Sarajevo.

Involved in book design (for national and foreign publishers), design of newspapers and magazines, stamps, banknotes, commercial and art graphic.

He created letterforms for transfer system. Active in typeface design. Writes on Cyrillic, organizes presentations and exhibitions concerning with Cyrillic in country and abroad.


Awards:

Award of London Ex Libris Society (1995)

Award for Typography on Grifon contest (1995)

Golden Shakle, for contribution in culture (2003)

Vuk's Award for contribution in culture (2004)

Several awards at book fairs at Beogradu, East Berlin, Frankfurt and Moskow.


Exhibitions:

Tršić, Valjevo, Toronto, San Francisco, Pettenbach-Austria


Transfer system faces:

Cyrillics: Gondolier , Helvetica , Univers .


Typefaces:

Cyrillics: Gjotaku, Ukrasna, Kapitala, Minuskula, Staroslovenski, Politika.

Reconstructions of old scribed and incised Cyrillics: Miroslav, Milutin, Tipik, Inok Sava

School handwritting Cyrillics: 4 fonts

Latin: Alexander script

Cyrillics & Latin sets: Neoplanta, Akademija, Profil, Neven

Cyrillics based on existing latin typefaces: Garamond, Herold, Univers, Albertus.

 



Tadeuša Košćuška 52
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
fileki@tipometar.org