Krasen Krastev is a graphic designer and typographer, born in 1971 in Sofia. In 1997 he graduated Illustration and Print Graphics (MA) at the National Academy of Arts. From 2001 to 2003 studied Graphic Design (MA) at AKV St.Joost, Breda, the Netherlands. And during 2003-2004 studied TypeMedia (MA) at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands. In 2017 – 2018 he is in Expert class Type design at Plantin Institute of Typography, Antwerp, Belgium.

AWARDS:

1st place, e-learning category for www.heriquest.com (International Web Festival, Albena 2006)
Special Award for Best Usability for www.heriquest.com (International Web Festival, Albena 2006)
The Grand Prize – Site of the Year, and golden umbrella statue for www.heriquest.com (International Web Festival, Albena 2006)
2nd place, category Education and Science for www.heriquest.com (BG site 2006)
3rd Place (Audience Award), Travel & Tourism Category for www.heriquest.com (BG Site 2006)
4th place, Art and Culture category for www.heriquest.com (XVIII International Forum Computer Space 2006)
Special e-Games Award for www.heriquest.com (XVIII International Computer Space Forum 2006)

EXHIBITIONS:

n Plantin’s footsteps (ATypl, Antwerp / Belgium, 2018)
Bulgarian font design 1950-2016 (Shipka 6, Sofia, 2016)
New Bulgarian Typography (Sofia, 2013)
Alphapretations (Sofia, Dusseldorf / Germany, Malmü / Sweden, 2012)
Type and Media collective exhibition (Moscow / Russia, 2006)
Type and Media collective exhibition (ATypl, Prague / Czech Republic, 2004)
Type and Media collective exhibition (Meermanno Museum, The Hague / The Netherlands, 2004)
Type and Media collective exhibition (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague / The Netherlands, 2004)
Post St. Joost open air (Museum De Beyerd, Breda / The Netherlands, 2003)
Items’ Selection (Netherlands Architectural Institute, Rotterdam / The Netherlands, 2003)
Explosition, (Local 1, Breda / The Netherlands, 2002)

PARTICIPATIONS:

Master Class in Graphic Design (Presentation, Sofia, 2018)
Bulgarian Cyrillic: National Identity (Presentation, National Academy of Arts, Sofia, 2016)
Letters within corporate symbols (presentation, ING Creative Festival, Dubai / UAE, 2016)
Creating characters (ING Creative Festival, Dubai / UAE, 2016)
Bulgarian Cyrillic: identity in progress (presentation, Typo Berlin, Berlin / Germany, 2015)
Typographic Dialogue (Presentation, Типофест / Sofia, 2014)
Hospitype (font workshop, Dubai / UAE, 2012)
Bulgarian Cyrillic and Small Letters (Presentation, Sofia Design Week, 2011)
Lettering of letters (font workshop, Sofia Design Week, 2011)

CLIENTS AND COOPERATIONS:

38 T-shirts, Ancient Stadium of Plovdiv, Bureau Plantage (Herard Hadders), credissimo, Dutch Type Library, Ethnographic Museum of Open Etar, FireFly Branding, helpkarma, Linotype, Martin Major, Monotype, Poststudio, Typos, Traast + Gruson, Typotheque, Inspiro Foundation

THE DESIGN:

Visual rhetoric achieved with love.