About Jan Tomas
Jan Tomas is a multidisciplinary designer, creative director, typographer, and motion designer working with typography as a spatial and time-based system. For more than twenty five years, his internationally recognized practice has explored advanced typographic systems, brand strategy and identity, and visual communication across print, screen, and space.
His early typefaces for animated media were published by Linotype and later included in the Monotype Library, marking an important milestone in digital type design. His work has received international recognition, including recognition from Mercedes-Benz, the League of Historical Cities, the Type Directors Club, and the AGI Poster Competition, as well as selections and awards at the International Biennial of the Poster in Mexico, the Bolivia Biennial, the Brno Biennial, and the Golden Bee Biennale in Moscow. His work has been exhibited at DDD Gallery in Osaka, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, and internationally across Europe, the United States, and Asia.
Future Typo
Future Typo is an ongoing research platform initiated in 1996. It investigates how letterforms evolve from static signs into volumetric structures capable of motion, transformation, and physical presence. Operating across print, animation, digital art, digital sculpture, and spatial form, the project positions typography as an architectural and kinetic system.
What began with experimental typefaces for digital media has developed into a multidimensional design language that integrates motion, structure, sound, and space. Future Typo expands typography beyond reading into experience, exploring how form can shape perception, environment, and interaction.
Through exhibitions, publications, lectures, and digital editions, Future Typo contributes to contemporary discourse in type design, motion design, brand systems, and visual communication.
Jan Tomas Studio
Jan Tomas Studio operates as an independent design practice focused on brand strategy, visual identity, and high-level visual communication. The studio collaborates with international clients on complex brand systems, typographic solutions, and motion-based visual environments, translating conceptual clarity into scalable design structures across print, digital, and spatial contexts.
Academic Engagement
Since 2015, Jan Tomas has led university courses, invited lectures, and workshops internationally across Europe, the United States, and Asia. His academic work is practice based and research led, integrating studio process, iterative critique, and interdisciplinary experimentation in visual communication, typography in motion, spatial form, and emerging technologies.
Course contexts include motion design, brand design, UX/UI and interaction design, digital visual language, creative AI, exhibition and venue concepts, fashion innovation design, and interior design.
He supports students in developing authorship, creativity, conceptual clarity, and professional readiness, connecting research, design decisions, and presentation to real world contexts while maintaining a critical and ethical approach to technology and AI in contemporary design practice.
He has extensive experience in intercultural academic engagement in design and innovation across Europe, the United States, and Asia, bridging cultures through contemporary visual communication.
Philosophy
His work is defined by conceptual clarity combined with technological precision, creating visual systems across print, screen, and space. He designs at the intersection of typography, motion, branding, and technology, treating the letter as structure, movement, and spatial logic. Sound functions as part of the work’s architecture, shaping rhythm, pacing, and perception alongside form.
Intercultural experience has shaped his understanding of visual language, storytelling, and communication across diverse contexts and media. From early 2D animation to 3D systems for AR and VR environments, his practice blends aesthetic exploration with strategic brand development, consultancy, digital products, and emerging technologies. Future Typo reflects this vision as a platform where original design meets digital experimentation, physical production, and evolving media.
Reflections
To create is not to impress.
It is to open. To search. To share. To inspire.
To reveal what matters
without needing to perform.
To inspire is not to instruct.
It is to witness. To listen.
To nurture someone else’s courage to try,
to fail, and to find their voice.
The full reflection is available on Medium and in the book Here and Now on Apple Books.
Selected Clients
Accenture
Mercedes-Benz
Deutsche Bahn
Linotype
Monotype
Scott Sports
All works presented on this website are authored by Jan Tomas. Intellectual property rights are held either by Jan Tomas individually, by Jan Tomas Studio, or by Future Typo, depending on the context of creation. All content has been created independently and is not produced on behalf of, or under, any current or previous academic employment.