1981-1995
I've been in a creative environment since I was a kid. My parents, me and my brother would go to the cottage and we were always fixing and improving things. Especially with my dad, who built a studio there, we were always creating something. My dad is a stone sculptor and later worked as a designer in a glass factory. That shaped and directed me.
1995-2006
I studied at the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Luhačovice, but I didn't want to focus only on glass, so I expanded my studies to the whole field of industrial design at the Tomas Bata University in Zlín. During my studies I had the opportunity to go on Erasmus to the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where I specialized in product and furniture design.
2006-2008
After school I went abroad to gain experience. And I was lucky. I worked in an architectural studio in Londrina, Brazil, then at CuldeSac design studio in Valencia, Spain, and finally for a few months at Art Lebedev Studio in Moscow.
2006-2012
While still at school I founded the blog DesignEast.eu, a platform aimed at popularizing design in Central and Eastern Europe, where I wrote about events and projects and organized exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. This project grew into a media platform that gained thousands of readers and to which many authors from different countries contributed.
2008-2016
I did my first purely self-employed work while I was still in school, and except for the period when I was 100% dedicated to Prototype, I never stopped. There have been countless projects over the years. From glass design to vases, tableware, lamps and various prototypes to lifestyle products under my own brand. For a while I worked with Flex/Cocoon on the design of beverage bottles for various European brands. In 2013, my KON glass collection, designed for SIMAX, won the prestigious GOOD DESIGN AWARD from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.
2014-2016
Within YSOFT BE3D I was responsible for the design of BE3D printers and all the external presentation of the company, including the design of presentation stands for trade fairs.
2016-2023
I co-founded Studio PROTOTYPUM. It was a dream. I wanted to build a design studio that would be on par with the Western ones, which I watched and was inspired by almost every day. I wanted to do things that help improve the environment around us. For a long time, we've been able to do that. It was a good team collaboration and we won several awards, including the GOOD DESIGN AWARD and the BigSee PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD. We enjoyed the work and the studio was growing under our hands — but COVID, inflation and the war in Ukraine changed the market so much that I decided to leave the studio.
2023-NOW
After Prototypum I returned to working under my own name. The studio is small on purpose - it lets me design for clients and produce and sell my own products at the same time. Vases, lighting, tables, modular panels: designed, printed and dispatched from one place, only in the quantities ordered. Today that means products on the market in 12 countries - and large-format printing as the next frontier.
