Masaryk University
“Prague is a gothic city, Olomouc a baroque one, Brno is the city of functionalism. We are determined by our environment to seek beauty in simplicity and purposefulness,” Mikuláš Bek, the rector of Masaryk University in Brno, said in May 2017. Together with the brief that defined Muni as a truly modern institution, functionalism has thus become the focal point of the new identity. The interwar avant-gardes correspond not only to the time of establishment of the university, but also to the democratic values that the country’s second university represents today, as well as to its position of a younger, rather sassy sibling, who brings change relying on new technologies. Thus, the logo is an interpretation of the inscriptions on buildings of Brno’s luminary architect Bohuslav Fuchs, the work of the designer Ladislav Sutnar or the ever-living legacy of the Bauhaus. The custom typeface Muni, which forms the basis of the entire style, is monospace (i.e., it preserves the same space for all letters, wide “m” or narrow “i”): the tool for coding but also a sign of a certain democratic equality and universal educational base. The form follows function not only in the simplicity of lines and the absence of decorations (e.g. symbol) but mainly by creating a unified system for nine faculties and their departments.
2017 Marek Pistora, Michal Nanoru, Aleš Najbrt
Production estimated up to 14 days, the possibility of printing sizes S to XL
price 400 CZK
