Ilya Ruderman & Yury Ostromentsky
(both *1979) graduated from Moscow State University of Print in 2002, where they had studied with Alexander Tarbeev.
Three years later, Ilya also graduated from Type & Media at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He taught Type & Typography at the British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow (2008–2015), and served as art director at the news agency RIA Novosti. His typefaces from these years include Permian and Big City Grotesque (both 2009) as well as the Cyrillic version of Typotheque’s Lava (2013). Meanwhile, Yury was editorial designer and art director of Big City magazine from 2004 to 2012. There he introduced his personal lettering style which later became the base of his typeface Pilar (2015).
In 2014, Ilya and Yury launched their foundry CSTM Fonts, and one of their first releases was their own Kasimir (2015). They co-founded font distributor type.today in 2016. Among their most recent commissioned works are LL Akkurat Cyrillic (2016), LL Brown Cyrillic (2017), and LL Unica77 Cyrillic (2018), all released in 2019, as well as LL Circular Cyrillic (2017).
Ilya Ruderman & Yury Ostromentsky
(both *1979) graduated from Moscow State University of Print in 2002, where they had studied with Alexander Tarbeev.
Three years later, Ilya also graduated from Type & Media at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He taught Type & Typography at the British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow (2008–2015), and served as art director at the news agency RIA Novosti. His typefaces from these years include Permian and Big City Grotesque (both 2009) as well as the Cyrillic version of Typotheque’s Lava (2013). Meanwhile, Yury was editorial designer and art director of Big City magazine from 2004 to 2012. There he introduced his personal lettering style which later became the base of his typeface Pilar (2015).
In 2014, Ilya and Yury launched their foundry CSTM Fonts, and one of their first releases was their own Kasimir (2015). They co-founded font distributor type.today in 2016. Among their most recent commissioned works are LL Akkurat Cyrillic (2016), LL Brown Cyrillic (2017), and LL Unica77 Cyrillic (2018), all released in 2019, as well as LL Circular Cyrillic (2017).