Sauber Script

Michael Hochleitner is an Austrian type designer, a founding member of Vienna-based design studio and foundry Typejockeys. Founded in 2008, Typejockeys has worked in the field of type design, lettering and design with type since then. Aside from Sauber Script, Hochleitner was behind such distinguished type families as Ingeborg, Henriette, as well as custom typefaces for Austrian Post, mobile phone and broadband internet provider 3 (Drei), and the City of Graz.

Professional type design, lettering and design with type: that’s the field of work in which the Vienna-based studio and type foundry operates day by day. Their credo is ‘Always work and think whole-hearted — with or without serif’.

Since 2008, the small and independent Austrian foundry creates big type families, like Ingeborg and Henriette, or display fonts for their casual collection: Typejockey’s Shots. Several of them were awarded by notable institutions, including Type Directors Club New York and European Design Award.

Typejockeys developed custom type for OMV, Austrian Post, mobile phone and broadband internet provider 3 (Drei), the City of Graz and others. They work on environmental projects such as signage for buildings, architectural branding or park house orientation, draw logotypes for agencies or publishing houses and create letterings of all kinds.

Ilya is a type and graphic designer and teacher, lives and works in Barcelona. He is a graduate of the Moscow State University of the Printing Arts (2002), where his graduation project was done under the supervision of Alexander Tarbeev. He has a MA degree in type design from the Type & Media program at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague (2005). After completing the program, he returned to Moscow, where he has collaborated for a number of media: Kommersant, Afisha, Moskovskiye Novosti, Bolshoi Gorod and Men’s Health Russia. In 2005-2007 he was art director for Afisha’s city guidebooks, following which he was art director for RIA-Novosti, a news agency, for several years. In 2007–2015 he has also supervised the curriculum in type and typography at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. He has been very active as a consultant on Cyrillic since 2008. In 2014 he founded CSTM Fonts with Yury Ostromentsky.

Typefaces by Ilya Ruderman: BigCity Grotesque Pro, Kazimir, Kazimir Text, Navigo, Permian (a typeface-brand for the city of Perm) and Cyrillic versions of: Austin, Dala Floda, Graphik, Marlene, Moscow Sans (as a consultant), Typonine Sans, Thema.

Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky (CSTM Fonts)

They are both graphic and type designers. Founders of CSTM Fonts (2014) type foundry and a new font distributor type.today (2016).

Graduated from Moscow State University of Print (Graphic Design Department), where they took Alexander Tarbeev’s classes. Later Ilya Ruderman graduated from Type & Media (Royal Academy of Art), the Hague, the Netherlands. After graduation he was a tutor of Type&Typography course at British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow (2008-2015), was an art-director of information agency RIA Novosti. He is an author of cyrillic versions of such typeface as Lava, Graphik, Neutraface and others, that was made for such studios as Typotheque, Commercial Type, Typonine and House Industries. He is an author of: Permian typeface, Big City Grotesque and several other corporate typefaces.

Before 2013 Yury Ostromentsky worked mostly as an editorial designer and art-director of BigCity Magazine, where he used his personal lettering, that was the base of the Pilar typeface, released by CSTM Fonts last year. He is an author of several book series designs and logotypes.

Both typefaces of Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky were the winners of such type design competitions as Modern Cyrillic 2009, Modern Cyrillic 2014, Granshan 2011, European Design Award 2012. Kazimir typeface and Tele2 Typefamily, the CSTM Fonts’s latest releases, were among the winners of Granshan 2015.