Móda Magazine
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2022

Cover: Offset, 877C + Black,  Chromolux 220 g
Inside: Digital, CMYK, Offset 70 g
Machine As Medium Symposium, 2023
New Haven, CT, USA

Identity for Yale CCAM (Centrum for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale)
 
Móda Magazine
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2022

Móda is a visual narrative that represents the fashion of Czech and Slovakian women during Communism between 1948 and 1969. After World War II, the Communist regime behind the Iron Curtain struggled to provide enough textiles and clothing for its people. Industrial recovery in Czechoslovakia lagged behind Western Europe, yet people were still inspired by Western fashion until the Soviet occupation in 1969, when life became more restrictive. During this period, when new styles were hard to come by, magazines like Žena a život or Praktická žena offered patterns for making garments at home. Móda seeks to illustrate this time, highlighting gestures, costumes, and clothes sewn by today’s mothers and grandmothers.

Cover: Offset, 877C + Black,  Chromolux 220 g
Inside: Digital, CMYK, Offset 70 g
Size: 34 x 25,5 cm — Size of the original magazines from which the content had been scanned.  
Stravastraat typeface

Designed and drawn with Una Maria Magnusdottir. Published in De Gids, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2023.
Yale Norfolk School of Art, Making Light
New Haven, CT, USA, 2024

Color drawing / Poster, A1
CCAM Studio Fellowship Exhibition 2025
Poster
Kijk Publication
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023

Offset: 801 U, 802 U, 803 U, 805 U
500 Copies, Sewn Bound
In Collaboration with Maximage.
Typefaces 2022—2023
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show Identity 2023
Designed in collaboration with Jungeun Yang and Yoohee Cha.
Dear Amelia
Herb Lubalin Lecture Series, Cooper Union, New York City, 2025

Dear Amelia is a series of letters written by Tomáš Hlava addressed to a typeface designed by Stanley Davis, named Amelia. It describes how the world got to know her for the first time, shaped by cases of plagiarism and its appearance on the famous Yellow Submarine album cover, and Hlava’s personal encounters—leading to a journey to Davis’s hometown, There, through a series of coincidences, Amelia the typeface and Amelia the person begin to blur.
Tomáš Hlava
There must be a better way to make a living
New Haven, CT, USA, 2025
Yale Norfolk School of Art, Making Light
New Haven, CT, USA, 2024

Drawing, 4 tabloits
Amelia. Saugerties, New York, Saturday October 5th
Publication, Letter Size, CMYK, 250 Pages, Perfect Bound

'Dear Amelia' is a series of letters written by Tomáš Hlava in 2024 to a typeface designed by Stanley Davis in 1963. Named Amelia, after his first-born daughter, it was submitted for the VGC Phototypesetting competition in 1965 and selected as the winning typeface; this is how the world got to know her for the first time.

Given the context of the time, the new technology of phototypesetting, and the blurred boundaries of censorship in the type design field, Amelia's strokes were copied and resold by other type foundries. Davis didn't know his typeface had been published until he saw a TV promo for the film Yellow Submarine. “That was a double whammy for an avid Beatle fan,” Davis said. “Bitstream and Linotype stole my Amelia,” he added in a rare interview in 2002.

Since 2018, Hlava has been encountering and uncovering the mystery Amelia is wrapped in. Dear Amelia' is an attempt to (re)connect these personal and typographic histories through the epistolary form. In these letters he describes how people got to see Amelia for the first time, the plagiarism the type foundries committed, his first encounters with Amelia in the Czech Mountains, and the moment he got to know her name. Later, he writes about the moment he decided to go to the place where Stanley Davis lived, Saugerties in upstate New York. There, through a series of coincidences, Amelia the typeface and Amelia the person begin to blur. Did he find her, is she alive, and does she know anything about this?
Housing Connectitut: Designing Healthy and Sustainable Neighborhoods, Yale School of Architecture, Yale School of Management, Yale Law School

Offset, 16,5 x 21,5 cm, 200 Pages, CMYK, Thread Sewn, 500 Copies, Munken Print White 80 g, Cottage 220 g

New Haven, CT, USA, 2024
I am Alan Turing
Machine As Medium Symposium, 2023

New Haven, CT, USA

Part of the the I am Alan Turing identity for Yale CCAM (Centrum for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale)
Housing Connectitut: Designing Healthy and Sustainable Neighborhoods, Yale School of Architecture, Yale School of Management, Yale Law School

Offset, 16,5 x 21,5 cm, 200 Pages, CMYK, Thread Sewn, 500 Copies, Munken Print White 80 g, Cottage 220 g

New Haven, CT, USA, 2024
ABCFWGX, Graduation Project
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023

Dimensional typographic works that explore physical limitation, form, arrangement, and context as tools that question the edges of typographic principles. These works present a  possibility from which typographic language (letters) can be extracted or generated, and new alphabets might be designed. Sculptures from various materials, projection and roof installation.
All you need is Amelia
Karaoke, Yale School of Art, 2023
Danarti Magazine, Front cover
Tbilisi, Georgia, 2023

In the fall of 2022, We, as a class from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, went to Georgia for six weeks residency program. We produced one issue of the local Danarti Magazine which was dedicated to the phenomena of Budka—DIY architecture born in Georgia during the so-called Transitional Period of Post-Soviet countries. This issue was completely collated, designed, and edited by us. Cover and backcover designed in collaboration with Susu Lee.

Offset, CMYK, A3, 500 Copies
Designed and printed in Tbilisi, Georgia
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduations Show Identity 2023
Designed in collaboration with Jungeun Yang and Yoohee Cha.

Poster in the center of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
StanFree, Typeface
Revival

Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2024
Majorca
Custom typeface drawn for the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show Identity 2023

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023
The Communal Mind
128 pages, Silkscreen
Machine As Medium

Identity for CCAM (Yale Centrum for Collaborative Arts at Media)
New Haven, USA, 2023
CCAM Illuminaitions 2025
Animation Reel
Scrambled Eggs
New Haven, CT, USA, 2024

Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 discuss the changing nature of romantic love and relationships. Speaker 1 believes that romantic love is a practical and simple thing, while Speaker 2 thinks it’s an illusion. Speaker 1 argues that romantic love is about being with someone you like and finding comfort in their company, while Speaker 2 believes that it’s an unrealistic and often harmful concept.

On February 25th Sunday, Julio took me for breakfast to Georgies Diner in West Haven. Little did he know I was recording. Two months later, I designed one section in his thesis from what was exchanged over the table.

Typeset in my Times Regular, drawn in spring 2024.
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show Identity 2023
Designed in collaboration with Jungeun Yang and Yoohee Cha.

Daily Programme
Offset, CMYK 4/1, Biotop 100 g
Potatoe Typeface. Designed and drawn in Jungmyung Lee’s class. Published in De Gids, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2024.
ABCFWGX, Graduation Project
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023

Dimensional typographic works that explore physical limitation, form, arrangement, and context as tools that question the edges of typographic principles. These works present a possibility from which typographic language (letters) can be extracted or generated, and new alphabets might be designed. Sculptures from various materials, projection and roof installation.
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduations Show Identity 2023

The graduation show is the Rietveld largest annual event, and it seems to fall like a meteor out of the sky—a palpable silence as it approaches, ending in a bang. The campaign is, ultimately, a graphic translation of a general graduation years ‘vibe’. It begins outside of the school and continues into the interior, guiding a visitor through the many graduation works. 

Designed in collaboration with Jungeun Yang and Yoohee Cha.
Supra Sheet, Crop of the back side

During our department’s six-week residency in Georgia, we came across the country’s many traditions related to food. From our very first meeting, to our last farawell, our gatherings took place around the georgian feast called Supra. Our underfined printed matter can serve as a tablecloth, wrapping paper, or a as a tool of distribution including talks we had about the meanings and social functions of Supra in Georgia. Designing and public baking in collaboration with Jana Sofie Liebe and Uma Naddermier in spring 2023.

Offset, Mixed 877 U, Biotop 100 g, 46 x 56 cm
library.tomashlava.com
Personal Catalogue
Móda Magazine
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2022

877 C + Black,  Chromolux 220 g
ABCFWGX, Graduation Project
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023

Dimensional typographic works that explore physical limitation, form, arrangement, and context as toold that question the edges of typographic principles. These works present a possibiity from which typographic language (letters) can be extracted or generated, and new alphabets might be designed. Sculptures from various materials, projection and roof instalation.
Danarti Magazine, Back cover
Tbilisi, Georgia, 2023

Offset, CMYK, A3, 500 Copies
Designed together with Susu Lee. Printed in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Scrambled Eggs
New Haven, CT, USA, 2024

Typeset in my Times Regular, drawn in spring 2024.
I Walked All The Streets of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023

I walked all the streets of Amsterdam is a book about designer Nanna Due's personal project where she decided to walk all the streets in Amsterdam. The book consists of an interview and her personal photos. Reading the book it is ambiguous whether she walked all the streets or not–but does it really matter? Made in collaboration with Nanna Due in 2023.

10,5 x 14,8 cm, BW, Chromolux 220 g, Holmen TRDN 70 g
I am Alan Turing
Machine As Medium Symposium, 2023

New Haven, CT, USA

Part of the the I am Alan Turing identity for Yale CCAM (Centrum for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale)
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduations Show Identity 2023
Designed in collaboration with Jungeun Yang and Yoohee Cha.

List of graduating students, Floor Plan
Offset, CMYK 4/1, Biotop 100 g, Pirelli from Jung-Lee Type Foundry in use.
Times

In 1994, Mike Parker wrote an essay, 'Starling Burgess: Type Designer?', published in the Printing History Journal. The text reveals the biography of an American well-known engineer, yacht designer, and poet. Little information on Burgess survived from that period more than 90 years ago, with the rest being protected from being seen. Was Starling Burgess the original designer of Lanston No. 54, whose qualities are recognizable in the world wide known Times New Roman? Times is a typeface designed by Tomáš Hlava, based on Lanston No. 54.
Housing Connectitut: Designing Healthy and Sustainable Neighborhoods, Yale School of Architecture, Yale School of Management, Yale Law School

Offset, 16,5 x 21,5 cm, 200 Pages, CMYK, Thread Sewn, 500 Copies, Munken Print White 80 g, Cottage 220 g

New Haven, CT, USA, 2024
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduations Show Identity 2023
Typefaces
Drawn, 2020—2024

From left to right: Times, Gefko, Korbik, Korbik Raw, NIA, Roof Lines, Roof, Majorca, Stravastraat, Potatoe Typeface, Woodstock, YELLOW, Floorplan, Amelia Regular, Brighton, Bug Amp Horizontal, Bug Amp Vercal, Bug
CCAM Symposium: Illuminations
New Haven, 2025


Paprika!
New Haven, CT, USA, Fall 2023

In collaboration with Youngjin Park
Jumping Jacks
Identity, Prague, 2021

Set in Aach—typeface found in Otl Aicher’s home in Rotis, Germany as a part of sketches for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games identity. The typefaces was found and later digitalized by Simon Knebl who later added Czech diacritics for the project. 
Brighton Typeface

“The air marker is one of the simplest and least expensive aids to air navigation in common use in the United States, but it is at the same time one of the most effective and necessary, particularly so far as the private or itinerant flyer is concerned.”

Digitalised from U. S. Civil Aeronautics authority, Civil Aeronautics Bulletin No. 12, AIR MARKING, October 1, 1938

Yale Norfolk School of Art, Making Light
New Haven, CT, USA, 2024

Back side of the poster
Cooked and drawn in Jungmyung Lee’s class. Published in De Gids, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2024.
Supra, Back side

During our department’s six-week residency in Georgia, we came across the country’s many traditions related to food. From our very first meeting, to our last farawell, our gatherings took place around the georgian feast called Supra. Our underfined printed matter can serve as a tablecloth, wrapping paper, or a as a tool of distribution including talks we had about the meanings and social functions of Supra in Georgia. Designing and public baking in collaboration with Jana Sofie Liebe and Uma Naddermier in spring 2023.

Offset, Mixed 877 U, Biotop 100 g, 46 x 56 cm
I am Alan Turing
Machine As Medium Symposium, 2023

New Haven, CT, USA

Identity for Yale CCAM (Centrum for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale)
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduations Show Identity 2023
Designed in collaboration with Jungeun Yang and Yoohee Cha.

List of graduating students, Floor Plan
Offset, CMYK 4/1, Biotop 100 g
Behind the State Capitol

Drawn on A2 sheets, later scanned and digitally reprinted in the original size
Bug Nap, Typeface
Designed for horizontal writing only
Amsterdam, 2022
Woodstock Typeface, Selected Letters

Designed for Turning History Online Identity
Prague, Czech Republic, 2022
Offset Posters 
Publication, 2022

Multiple spot colors, Browsed by Joos Wiersinga (Head of the offset printing workshop at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie)
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show Identity 2023
Designed in collaboration with Jungeun Yang and Yoohee Cha.
Could you pass me the spoon, please?
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023

Could you pass me the spoon? is a book involving four cooking sessions with myself and students from the graphic design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. It uses cooking as a tool to create space for discussions—about designing, food and other everyday life topics. What becomes clear is the way we talk, what we talk about and what our interests are. It resulted in a series of publications. Each of the dinners are transcribed and typeset in a typeface, designed by the person who was invited to cook.
Machine as Medium Symposium
CCAM, 2023
I Walked All The Streets of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023

I walked all the streets of Amsterdam is a book about designer Nanna Due's personal project where she decided to walk all the streets in Amsterdam. The book consists of an interview and her personal photos. Reading the book it is ambiguous whether she walked all the streets or not–but does it really matter? Made in collaboration with Nanna Due in 2023.

10,5 x 14,8 cm, BW, Chromolux 220 g, Holmen TRDN 70 g
Kijk Publication
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023

Offset: 801 U, 802 U, 803 U, 805 U
500 Copies, Sewn Bound
Behind the State Capitol
Page 171, A2
The Communal Mind
128 pages, Silkscreen
Kijk Publication
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2023

Over the years, the works and tools published by the Swiss design studio Maximage have found their way onto the bookshelves of the Offset & Print making workshop, at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Joos often refers to certain pages from the publications of Maximage as examples and inspirations for works made in the workshop. Maximage’s work demonstrates how a practice of a graphic designer can develop and be defined through an intense connection to making and experimenting. The following pages feature an interview typeset on offset printed gradients, designed and produced in June 2023 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in collaboration with Maximage and Tomáš Hlava.

Offset: 801 U, 802 U, 803 U, 805 U
500 Copies, Sewn Bound
Gefko Typeface
Yale School of Art, 2023
Without Title
Silkscreen, 1189 mm x 5046 mm
Without Title
Silkscreen, 1189 mm x 5046 mm
Maximage Color Combinations,  Reprinted
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2021

The book is an extended version of the Maximage Color Combinations CMYK edition. It was an offset printing experiment focused on expanding the existing color combinations by adding new combinations. These new color combinations were printed on the left pages of the original book; the non-printed pages, after having its original spine cut open. Only one offset plate was used for the entire process. All 260 colors are printed from a few spots and two process colors with the principle of adding colors on top of the cylinder while printing. Finally, the book is bound again in the original order of the Maximage book. There are mistakes such as paper stuck in one of the cylinders, the colors not meeting at the right spot, the sheets getting dirty from the floor, or some fingerprints close to the edges. There is beauty in these mistakes, their structures, and the originality of the process. 

Offset, Mutliple spot and process colors
One copy, 240 pages
Turning History Online
Identity, Prague, Czech Republic, 2022
Stravastraat typeface in use

Designed and drawn with Una Maria Magnusdottir. Published in De Gids, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2023 by Floor Koomen.
Rietveld Thesis Presentation
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2021

Thesis presentation for 21 selected students from the Academie. For the first time that year, students refused to participate in the competition and decided not to select anyone as a winner. In that context, the presentation has been typeset only in 21 points, only in lowercase and always in the center across all the media. The presentation also consist of wooden prizes with a height of 21 centimeters, used A4 with its 21 centimeter width, and aligned all of them equally next to each other.
Rietveld Thesis Presentation
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2021

Thesis presentation for 21 selected students from the Academie. For the first time that year, students refused to participate in the competition and decided not to select anyone as a winner. In that context, the presentation has been typeset only in 21 points, only in lowercase and always in the center across all the media. The presentation also consist of wooden prizes with a height of 21 centimeters, used A4 with its 21 centimeter width, and aligned all of them equally next to each other.
Amelia Regular

Specimen, Yale School of Art, 2023
Danarti Magazine
Tbilisi, Georgia, 2023

Offset, CMYK, A3, 500 Copies
Designed and printed in Tbilisi, Georgia
In collaboration with Susu Lee
Offset Posters
Multiple spot color
Rietveld Thesis Presentation
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2021
Rietveld Thesis Presentation
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2021
Milk Shake
Poster, A3
Prague, Czech Republic, 2022
Gefko, Designed in 2023
Tbilisi, Georgia
Concept sketch developed in Tomáš Celizna's class at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. An exhibition catalogue reimagined in the format of a swatch—transforming the act of selecting and comparing into a direct commentary on competition and evaluation.
Poster for Yale School of Art, Art and Activism
Stan Free in use, 2025
Offset Investigation

Slowing down and disrupting the process of developing the plate.
Gold 871 U, Green 802 U
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show Identity 2023
Designed in collaboration with Jungeun Yang and Yoohee Cha.
Maximage Color Combinations,  Reprinted
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2021

Offset, Mutliple spot and process colors
One copy, 240 pages
Times, Typeface Revival

In 1994, Mike Parker wrote an essay, 'Starling Burgess: Type Designer?', published in the Printing History Journal. The text reveals the biography of an American well-known engineer, yacht designer, and poet. Little information on Burgess survived from that period more than 90 years ago, with the rest being protected from being seen. Was Starling Burgess the original designer of Lanston No. 54, whose qualities are recognizable in the world wide known Times New Roman? Times is a typeface designed by Tomáš Hlava, based on Lanston No. 54.

Maximage Color Combinations,  Reprinted
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2021

Offset, Mutliple spot and process colors
One copy, 240 pages
Korbik Raw
Typeface, Drawn in 2020
The Communal Mind
128 pages, Silkscreen
The Power of Beauty
Silkscreen, 80 pages,  1 x 1,5 cm

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2021
Offset Posters
Multiple spot color
The Power of Beauty
Silkscreen, 80 pages,  1 x 1,5 cm

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2021
Without Title, Folding Book, 2021

Winegeek Logo
Prague, Czech Republic, 2020
Medium

Identity for Medium—A heavyweight T-shirt to lighten your head.
Made in EU from 240g recycled cotton.
Prague, Czech Republic, 2022
Medium

Identity for Medium—A heavyweight T-shirt to lighten your head.
Made in EU from 240g recycled cotton.
Prague, Czech Republic, 2022
Milk Shake
Poster, A3
Prague, Czech Republic, 2022
Winegeek
Identity, Prague, Czech Republic, 2020
Yale CCAM
Poster, 2024, StanFree in use
The Power of Beauty
Silkscreen, 80 pages,  1 x 1,5 cm

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2021
Jumping Jacks 
Identity, Stamp, 30 x 70 cm
Silly Amateurs Don't Cry
Kobrik in use on a spread with César Rogers

Published by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2022