In 2014 he founded CSTM Fonts with Yury Ostromentsky. He has been very active as a consultant on Cyrillic since 2008. In 2007вЂ“2015 he has also supervised the curriculum in type and typography at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. In 2005-2007 he was art director for AfishaвЂ™s city guidebooks, following which he was art director for RIA-Novosti, a news agency, for several years. After completing the program, he returned to Moscow, where he has collaborated for a number of media: Kommersant, Afisha, Moskovskiye Novosti, Bolshoi Gorod and MenвЂ™s Health Russia. He has a MA degree in type design from the Type & Media program at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague (2005). He is a graduate ofВ the Moscow State University of the Printing Arts (2002), where his graduation project was done under the supervision of Alexander Tarbeev. Ilya is a type and graphic designer and teacher, lives and works in Barcelona. The Cyrillic extension wasВ drawn byВ Ilya Ruderman (CSTM Fonts) inВ 2015. The typeface is available in nine weights, with italics, each with five sets of figures. ByВ theВ way, the web-site ofВ type.today isВ set inВ Graphik. ItВ isВ suitable forВ display purposes asВ well asВ for text sizes, captions andВ forВ such specific tasks asВ navigation systems andВ map-making. The low contrast and large x-height give the typeface great versatility. TheВ heavy end ofВ the family isВ inspired inВ part byВ Paul RennerвЂ™s Plak, aВ relatively obscure display typeface cut only inВ large sizes.ДЇirst drawn asВ theВ house style forВ Schwartzco Inc., itВ was further developed forВ CondГ© Nast Portfolio andВ later forВ Wallpaper* and T, the New York Times Style Magazine. These influences included Neuzeit Grotesk, Folio, Recta, andВ Maxima. TheВ lighter weights were influenced by the less popular sans serifs that many European foundries released toВ compete with Futura, Helvetica andВ Univers, theВ juggernauts ofВ 20thВ century sans serifs. Graphik was inspired byВ theВ appealing plainness seen inВ many ofВ the less common 20th century European sans serifs andВ inВ theВ hand-lettering ofВ classic Swiss Modern posters.

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