Svetlin Balezdrov is a graphic designer and university lecturer who lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has been working in the field of coin design since 2021. Svetlin has created coin designs for Bulgarian National Bank, the National Bank of Estonia, and the Slovak National Bank.
Svetlin is the founder of the design studio – balezdrov.com and co-founder of the platform for free fonts – npoekmu.me. Svetlin is an associate professor at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia – nha.bg
svetlin.balezdrov@gmail.com
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Awards
2024
1st prize for the two-euro coin for 500 years of Estonian as a written language.
2nd prize for the two-euro coin for 500 years of Estonian as a written language.
1st prize for an artistic design of a commemorative silver coin “125 Years of Emergency Medical Care in Bulgaria”
1st prize for an artistic design of a commemorative silver coin “175 years since the birth of Ivan Vazov”
3rd prize for an artistic design of a commemorative gold coin “St. Patriarch Euthymius of Tarnovo”
2023
1st prize for the silver collector coins for the Hanseatic town of Tartu
2nd prize for the gold collector coins for the Hanseatic town of Tartu
1st prize (co-author) for an artistic design of a commemorative silver coin “Bulgarian pupe”
1st prize for an artistic design of a commemorative copper coin “125 years since the birth of Pancho Vladigerov”
2022
1st prize for an artistic project of a commemorative silver coin “100 years since the foundation of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee”
1st prize for an artistic project of a commemorative gold coin “100 years of the Faculty of Theology”
2nd prize for an artistic project of a commemorative silver coin “Medieval Bulgarian Rulers • Tsar Mikhail III Shishman”
3rd prize for an artistic project of a commemorative silver coin “Bulgarian Revival • 200 Years since the Birth of Nayden Gerov”
2021
1st prize for an artistic design of a commemorative silver coin “Tsar Kaloyan” from the series “Medieval Bulgarian Rulers”