


A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., he worked for a time at MetaDesign in Berlin. 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.Ĭhristian Schwartz, a type designer and one of the founders of the type foundry Commercial Type, lives and works in New York. In 2014 he founded CSTM Fonts with Yury Ostromentsky. He has been very active as a consultant on Cyrillic since 2008. In 2007–2015 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 Afisha’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 Men’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 of 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. Kazimir typeface and Tele2 Typefamily, the CSTM Fonts’s latest releases, were among the winners of Granshan 2015. He is an author of several book series designs and logotypes.īoth 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. He is an author of: Permian typeface, Big City Grotesque and several other corporate typefaces.īefore 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 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. 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.

Later Ilya Ruderman graduated from Type & Media (Royal Academy of Art), the Hague, the Netherlands. Graduated from Moscow State University of Print (Graphic Design Department), where they took Alexander Tarbeev’s classes. Founders of CSTM Fonts (2014) type foundry and a new font distributor type.today (2016). They are both graphic and type designers. Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky (CSTM Fonts)
