Andrey Kudryavtsev
Andrey Kudryavtsev was born in 1980 in Irkutsk, Russia, near the beautiful Lake Baikal. He studied at the university as an aircraft engineer and worked for several years in his specialty.
After leaving to the advertising business he started designing fonts in 2008. He participated in Rodrigo Araya's RodrigoTypo foundry in Chile as a consultant and designer of the Cyrillic parts of several font families, and was shortlisted twice for the Typos Latinos Biennial. He created a font family for navigation in the historical part of his native city Irkutsk. He participated as a co-author of the Qwincey FY typefamily for the French foundry FontYou. His heading typeface Czarevitch was awarded the Glyphs prize at the Modern Cyrillic 2019 international competition. He was a co-author in the design of the universal font Onest for Moldova; the font won silver at the Sreda Design Festival in 2022.
[Andrey Kudryavtsev, June 2023]
