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Address
Cinege ut 1-3., A.
Budapest,
1121
HU
Company Name
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Company Type
Design
Languages
English, Hungarian
Born
1976
simonpeterbence@gmail.com
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Graphis ArchivesBiography/Work Experience
Peter Bence, Simon is an Adjuct Professor at the Moholy–Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. He is an independent graphic artist, designer, typographer living in Budapest. Peter has twenty years of experinece in the design-education. His Doctoral Program (DLA) is experimental typography, concrete poetry, researches around the issue of readability-legibility.
Philosophy on Work
His research lead him to the border-territory of literature, visual art and design. He is experimenting with interaction between picture and type (analysing connecting points, blending the borderline, re– and transcoding the letter–form) to release verbal elements from their syntactic and semantic relations.
Professional Specialties
Typography, Branding
Awards
• PERU DESIGN BIENNIAL, Typography category: 1ST PRIZE (2023, Lima, Peru) • POSTERISTS IN THE WORLD, Typography category: 1ST PRIZE (2022, Peru, Cusco) • XIX. Hungarian National Graphic Design Biennale Grand Prize of the Hungarian Art Academy (Hungary, 2014) • Golden Drawing–Pin Award, Hungarian Drawing-Pin Association (Hungary, 2012) • Pro Typographia Award, Hungarian Professional Press and Paperworks Association (Hungary, 2007) • The World Biennial of Student Poster, Academy of Arts (Novi Sad, Serbia, 2004)
Graphis Awards
• Silver Award – Graphis Poster Annual 2021 • Silver Award – Graphis Poster Annual 2021
Proudest Achievements
• XX+2 symposion, typographische gesellschaft austria (Raabs, Austria, 2022) Exhibition • Wroclaw Type Forum (Poland, 2018) invitation for lecture presentation • BRNO BIENNIAL, Off Program (Brno, Czech Rep., 2014) invitation for lecture presentation, Analysis of Type Interferences
Education
• 2022 Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Doctoral dissertation (Doctor of Liberal Arts) • 2012 – 2015 University of Pécs, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts – Doctoral School (DLA Program) • 1999 – 2004 Hungarian University of Fine Arts / Faculty of Graphic Design / Faculty of Visual Arts–lecturer
Area of Expertise
typography, experimental typography