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Tomato Kosir

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Location

Kranj, Slovenia

Doing Business As

Tomato Kosir s.p.

URL

http://www.tomatokosir.com

Creative Fields

Design, Art Direction, Typography

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Graphic designer, typographer, photographer and amateur pole bean cultivator. Even though the family was quite concerned, he was as a two and a half year old boy, more interested into newspaper headlines and signs in hospital waiting rooms, than walking and picking his nose, much more suited for a boy of his age. It was around that time that his first typeface with 25 characters was created. It was drawn in the air with his fingers and did not remain on that medium for a very long time. Two months later, his second typeface made of crayons remained on the table until lunchtime. With his third typeface, made of potato dumplings, he poisoned himself in kindergarden at age of three. From that time on, he was taken care of by his grandmother, uncle, German shepherd Rina and a flock of white hens. When four he used one of them as a house pony and broke its wing. He never forgot that chicken stew. He is a vegetarian and his work are often reminiscent of those white hens..

E-mail:

tomato@tomatokosir.com

Address:

Tomato Košir
Britof 141
4000 Kranj
Slovenia, EU

Awards:

2001
2nd student prize Certificate of Typographic Excellence TDC47
Type Directors Club, New York

2002
Golden MM for promotional gift of Ministry of Culture
Marketing Magazin, Ljubljana

2003
Special prize MM for an Annual report of Ministry of Culture RS, Marketing Magazin, Ljubljana

2004
Silver award for the student calendar of the Youth service, Kranj
Slovenian advertising festival, Portorož

2006
Best designed book award for the Oxford English-Slovene Dictionary
21st Book Fare, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana

2007
Brumen award for the best designed book collection Laughter, undertones.
3rd Biennal of Slovene Visual Communications, Ljubljana

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