Profile
Stefan Willerstorfer Designer
I was born in Vienna (Austria) in 1979 and I studied design in Austria, in the Netherlands and in England. In The Hague (NL), at the Royal Academy of Art (Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten – KABK), I completed the Type Design course »Type and Media« with a Master of Design degree (MDes). At the University of Reading (UK) I completed the course in Information Design with a Master of Arts degree (MA), with Distinction.
The design of and with type, as well as the design of corporate designs and of publications where typography plays a major role (books, forms, catalogues, magazines, newspapers, etc.) are my great passion.
Awards
Grand Prize of Applied Typography 21 (2011)by Japan Typography Association, Tokyo
Communication Arts Award of Excellence (2011)
Tokyo TDC Award Nominee (2011)
Joseph Binder Award in Bronze (2010)
Ernest Hoch Award (2006)
Eulda – European Logo Design Award (2006)
Typefaces
Acorde (2005-2010)Work featured in
Applied Typography 21
Japan Typography Association (Editor)
(2011). Tokyo: PIE International, Inc.
ISBN 978-4-7562-4083-5
Communication Arts – Typography Annual 1
Acorde, Stefan Willerstorfer
(2011). Menlo Park: Coyne & Blanchard, Inc.
ISSN 0010-3519
DA Mitteilungen
Stefan Willerstorfer – The making of Acorde
(2011). Vienna: Design Austria
ISSN 1022-9566
Typo 41
Martin Tiefenthaler – Typedesign and Austria
(2010). Prague: Vydavatelství Svět tisku
ISSN 1214-0716
Periodicum
Christian Gutschi – Vielgesichtiges Schriftbild
(2010). Vienna: Egger & Lerch
Joseph Binder Award 2010
Acorde, Stefan Willerstorfer
(2010). Vienna: Design Austria
ISSN 1022-9574
The Font Feed
Yves Peters – Malabar, Premiéra, and Acorde
win at Joseph Binder Award 2010
(Nov 22 2010). Web: fontfeed.com
I Love Typography
Stefan Willerstorfer – The making of Acorde
(Oct 10 2010). Web: www.ilovetypography.com
Graphische Revue
Christian Gutschi – Acorde: Charaktervoller Alleskönner
(2010). Vienna: Gpa-Djp
4c Magazin für Druck & Design
Rainer Scheichelbauer – Typo-Akkord aus 14 Tönen
(2010). Innsbruck: Industriemagazin Verlag GmbH
MyFonts Blog
Joshua Lurie-Terrell – Stefan Willerstorfer’s Acorde,
A New Humanist Sans
(Aug 23 2010). Web: blog.myfonts.com
fonts/1993–2007/AUT
Andreas Pawlik, Martin Tiefenthaler (Editors)
(2007). Vienna: Minimal
ISBN 978-3-900896-04-1
Eulda 06 – European Logo Design Annual
(2006). Milan: Eulda Books
ISBN-10: 88-7075-083-3
Typefaces by Austrian Designers:
Stefan Willerstorfer – Turntable, Satzspiegel
(2004). Vienna: Design Austria
Exhibitions
Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo (2011)
Tokyo TDC Awards Exhibition 2011
TypeGallery at TypeCon, Los Angeles (2010)
Showcase of New Typeface Design
default #01 at MAK –
Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna (2007)
Presentation of Austrian Type Designs
Brno (2004)
Special exhibition: Austrian Typography
Memberships
Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI)Design Austria (DA)
Society for News Design (SND)
Typographic Society Austria (tga)
Designing
I live and work in Vienna as an independent designer. My activities reach from various type design and graphic design projects to freelance work at the studio of the worldwide active newspaper designer, Prof. Rolf Rehe (Design Research International, Vienna). I contributed to projects for the following national and international clients in the media industry: Axel Springer AG, Styria Medien AG (Vecernji list, Zagreb), Mittelbadische Presse (Offenburger Tageblatt), Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, and Hessische Allgemeine.
Teaching
I have been teaching »Design and Typography« at the Höhere Graphische Bundeslehranstalt in Vienna since September 2009. Furthermore I have given classes and lectures at the University of Reading (R. Summer School, UK), at the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum in Graz (Austria), at the Master Class of the Höhere Graphische Bundeslehranstalt in Vienna and at the Advertising and Design Academy of WIFI Tirol in Innsbruck (Austria).