Speakers
ATypI Lisbon 2006
| Tim Ahrens | Peter Bain | Phil Baines | Andrew Barker | Paul A Barnes | Mark Barratt | Peter Bartl | Aura Beckhöfer-Fialho | John D. Berry | Roger Black | Filip Blažek | Frank E. Blokland | Erik Brandt | David Cabianca | Marina Martins Chaccur | Barbara S Chaparro | François Chastanet | Albert Corbeto | Jo De Baerdemaeker | Catherine Dixon | Dino Dos Santos | Richard B Doubleday | Carima El-Behairy | Veronika Elsner | Javier Errea | J. Victor Gaultney | Oleg Genisaretskiy | Verena Gerlach | Ted Harrison | John Hudson | Anthony Inciong | Mark Jamra | R. K. Joshi | Lars Kähler | Ben C Kiel | Eric Kindel | Gerry Leonidas | Julia Lila | Ellen Lupton | Thomas Maier | Sergey Malkin | Peter K Martin | Henrique Nardi | Raquel Pelta | Luciano Perondi | Antonio Perri | Thomas Phinney | Andreu Balius Planelles | Jean François Porchez | Mark Porter | Vitor Quelhas | José Maria Ribagorda | Jay Stephen Rutherford | Jose Scaglione | Christian E Schwartz | Dawn Shaikh | Fred Smeijers | Miguel Sousa | Erik Spiekermann | Klaus-Peter Staudinger | Adam Twardoch | Gerard Unger | Petr van Blokland | Massimo Vignelli | Tiffany Wardle de Sousa | Petra Weitz | Gisela Will | Jürgen Willrodt | Yuri Yarmola | Mathias Zimmer-Goertz |
Tim Ahrens
Just Another Foundry | United Kingdom
Tim Ahrens has studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe and Typeface Design in Reading, UK. He lives in Oxford and works as a type designer and architect. His designs are published by Linotype and his own label, Just Another Foundry.... [More]
Peter Bain
Principal Incipit | USA
Peter Bain is principal of Incipit, a New York-based studio whose practice includes wordmarks, digital typefaces, handlettering and typographic design. His projects have been recognized by the AIGA and the Type Directors Club. He has collected, curated, and written on letterforms; and devoted his attention to the areas of blackletter and display phototype at lectures both in the US and London. Bain has been a Madison Avenue type director, and has been on the faculty of Parsons/The New School for Design and Pratt Institute in New York. He is currently in the MFA Design/Visual Communications program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.... [More]
Phil Baines
Professor of Typography: UAL:Central Saint Martins | Designer & writer Phil Baines studio | UK
Phil Baines is a freelance designer, writer, and Professor of Typography at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Phil has worked as a freelance graphic designer for a variety of arts organisations and publishers since leaving the RCA in 1987.
He has worked together with Catherine Dixon on book designs for Phaidon Press; Laurence King; and for the award-winning Penguin Books Great Ideas series. They are frequent contributors to Eye; other writing includes the website publiclettering.org.uk and the book Signs: lettering in the environment (Laurence King 2003).
He has written two other books: Type & typography (with Andrew Haslam, 2nd edition, Laurence King 2005); and Penguin by design: a cover story 1935–2005 (Penguin 2005). ... [More]
Andrew Barker
Information Designer | UK
Andrew Barker is primarily an information designer. He worked full time in publishing for 15 years, latterly as design manager at Penguin Books. This was followed by a period at the specialist information design consultancy Boag Associates. Now he consults independently on a mixture of publishing and information design projects. He is also a member of the cult live art ensemble The Five Andrews, their lemonly realm can be found at www.thefiveandrews.co.uk ... [More]
Paul A Barnes
None None | United Kingdom
Paul Barnes (1970) is a graphic designer who has specialised in editorial and typographic design since his graduation from Reading University in 1992. On leaving University he was employed at Roger Black Incorporated in New York, where he was a senior designer and later an art director. Since 1995 he has lived and worked in London. During this period he has become a long term collaborator of Peter Saville, with whom he has made identities for companies as diverse as ABC television, Givenchy and Kilgour. He has become to be a advisor on many newspapers and magazines, redesigned many magazines, and has designed books for publishers all over Europe. His interest in both modern and traditional design has manifested itself in his typedesign and lettering; he has created original typefaces for Alcro Paints in Sweden, HSH bank, enercity, Harpers Bazaar, Bjork, The Observer, The Guardian (with Christian Schwartz), American Vogue, W and Givenchy. He has taught on typography, graphic design and newspapers in Britain, the United States, Sweden and Singapore. ... [More]
Mark Barratt
Text Matters | United Kingdom
Mark Barratt is an information designer and founding partner of Text Matters, a UK consultancy specialising in 'difficult' typography for printed information products such as forms and in web-based systems which enable discussion, collaborative work and intelligent interaction.... [More]
Peter Bartl
pb+j press | Canada
Peter Bartl retired from teaching Visual Communication Design at the University of Alberta, Canada after 29 years. During that time he lectured on that and other related subjects in Europe, North America and Japan. he also wrote extensively on the subject of design education and technology in design. Articles on his special interest of vernacular typography have appeared in 'Print' and 'Novum'. He now lives in the mountains of British Columbia creating 'typo art' at his studio pb+j press with his wife Jane Merks, a book artist.... [More]
Aura Beckhöfer-Fialho
digitworks | United Kingdom
Aura Beckhöfer-Fialho obtained her Masters degree at the University of Alberta and is a member of the Chartered Society of Designers. Throughout her career, she has held a variety of positions ranging from flight simulation designer for an aeronautics company, to senior designer at an investment bank. After taking some time off to volunteer for an animal rescue organisation in India, Aura returned to the UK where she now resides and co-runs digitworks, a design partnership based in Oxfordshire.... [More]
John D. Berry
Typographer, Writer, Editor, Book Designer John D. Berry Design | USA
John D. Berry is an editor and typographer who specializes in complex publishing projects. He is the former editor and publisher of U&lc (Upper and lower case) and of U&lc Online. He is the author and designer of Dot-font: Talking About Fonts and Dot-font: Talking About Design (Mark Batty Publisher, 2006), and the editor of Language Culture Type (ATypI/Graphis, 2002), Contemporary Newspaper Design, and U&lc: influencing design & typography. John has a deep and eclectic background in both editing and typography; he has made a career for more than twenty-five years in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco as an editor and book designer. He writes and consults extensively on typography, and he has won numerous awards for his book designs. He lives in Seattle with the writer Eileen Gunn. ... [More]
Roger Black
Principal The Font Bureau, Inc. | USA
Roger Black recently led redesigns of the Houston Chronicle, Popular Mechanics and the Los Angeles Times. He's a partner in The Font Bureau, Inc., which he started with David Berlow in 1989. And he runs the New York office of the publication consulting firm, Danilo Black, which he started the same year with Eduardo Danilo. Previously Black was chief art director of Newsweek, The New York Times, New York Magazine and Rolling Stone.... [More]
Filip Blažek
designer Designiq | Czech Republic
Filip Blažek (born 1974) works as a graphic designer in his studio Designiq in Prague, Czech Republic. Apart from being a designer, he is a co-author of Typography in practice (Praktická typografie), published by ComputerPress, 2000, 2004. He is a founder and a member of the editorial office of Typo Magazine, which focuses on typography, graphic design and visual communication. He is an owner of the Typo.cz server, dedicated to Central and Eastern European graphic design and typography. Since 1999, he gives lectures dealing with type and graphic design. He is the Czech deputy of the international organisation ATypI. ... [More]
Frank E. Blokland
Owner Dutch Type Library | Netherlands
Frank E. Blokland studied Graphic and Typographic design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. In 1985 Blokland won Chartpak's type design contest with his typeface Bernadette. In 1990 Blokland wrote a bestseller with his course book for Teleac's television course: Calligraphy, the art of hand writing, of which 16.000 copies were sold. In the same year Blokland founded the Dutch Type Library. Since the 1980s he has published over 150 articles in professional journals like Compres, Page, PrintBuyer, and the Hamburger Satzspiegel. When Gerrit Noordzij retired in 1987 from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Blokland was the first of the younger generation to succeed him. Blokland now lectures in letter drawing and type design/production to first- and post-graduate courses at this institute. In 1995 he was asked to become a lecturer at the Plantin Society in Antwerp. A few years later he initiated and supervised the development of DTL FontMaster, a set of utilities for professional font production. Frank E. Blokland designed amongst others the typefaces DTL Documenta and DTL Haarlemmer.... [More]
Erik Brandt
Assistant Professor Virginia Commonwealth University - Qatar | Qatar
Erik Brandt teaches typography and visual communication at Virginia Commonwealth University in Doha, Qatar, and has been active in university teaching for the past eight years. Educated internationally, his research interests focus on issues of globalization that affect and drive the complexities of inter-cultural visual communication systems. His career began as a cartoonist in Japan, and has since found focus largely in print media. He maintains a small graphic design studio, Typografika, and has also received recognition for his short films.... [More]
David Cabianca
Assistant Professor York University | Canada
David Cabianca teaches graphic design at York University in Toronto, Canada. He holds masters degrees from The University of Reading, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Princeton University. He is currently completing “Cardea” a typeface to be released by the Emigre Type Foundry.... [More]
Marina Martins Chaccur
Student | Brazil
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Barbara S Chaparro
Director Software Usability Research Lab | United States
Barbara Chaparro received her PhD in Psychology in 2000 from Texas Tech University. She now is an Assistant Professor at Wichita State University and directs the Software Usability Research Lab which conducts research related to onscreen reading, website design, and usability.... [More]
François Chastanet
Architect & graphic designer | France
François Chastanet is an architect and a graphic designer in Bordeaux, France. He specializes in signage systems for transportation networks. Graduate of the École d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux, he pursued research in 2001 at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, and completed a DEA in architectural & urban history at the École d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville in 2002. He currently teaches graphic design and typography at the École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Toulouse and is also coordinator of www.lpdme.org, a website dedicated to downloading PDF booklets and posters. He recently published an essay in Eye Magazine (#56, Summer 2005) about "Pixação", an illegal vernacular lettering phenomenon in São Paulo, Brazil. The essay documents the relation between urban signature, the body and the architectural environment.... [More]
Albert Corbeto
Publisher Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona | None
Albert Corbeto (Barcelona, 1971) has a degree in Art History from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. He is responsible for all the publishing activities of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona and the Asociación de Bibliófilos de Barcelona. His field of investigation is the history of printing types and, in particular, the work of Spanish punchcutters throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. He has published several articles on this subject and is currently working on a monographic paper that is to be published very soon. ... [More]
Jo De Baerdemaeker
Typeface / Graphic Designer PhD Student on Tibetan Typeforms at Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at University of Reading (UK) | United Kingdom
Jo De Baerdemaeker (b.1974) discovered his passion for type and typography at Sint-Lukas College of Art and Design Brussels, Belgium and followed the two-year postgraduate typography course at Plantin-Moretus Society in Antwerp, Belgium. Having set on designing a typeface of his own he recently graduated the MA Typeface Design at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication (University of Reading, UK). During this MA he designed Lungta, a Latin-Tibetan OpenType font. In October 2005 he started a PhD at the Typography & Graphic Communication Department of Reading (UK) on 'Tibetan Typeforms: from their inception in 1738 up to the present day'.... [More]
Catherine Dixon
Senior Lecturer / Designer Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design / Catherine Dixon: Design & Writing | UK
Catherine Dixon has worked as a freelance designer since graduating from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London in 1992. Clients include Penguin Books, Laurence King and Phaidon Press. As a writer she is a regular contributor to Eye, has worked on the website public lettering.org.uk and co-authored with Phil Baines the book Signs: lettering in the environment (2003). She completed her PhD in typeform description at CSM in 2001 since when she has continued to pursue typographic research interests, now alongside her position as Senior Lecturer in typography. With Phil Baines she also curates the college’s Central Lettering Record. ... [More]
Dino Dos Santos
Type Designer DSTYPE Unipessoal Lda | Portugal
Dino dos Santos, born 1971, graduated in Graphic Design at ESAD, Matosinhos. He received a Masters degree in Multimedia Arts at FBAUP, Porto.Founded DSType in late 1994 and since then designed several typefaces for corporations, magazines and cultural projects. In 2006 he won the Creative Review Type Design Competition in the Revival/Extension Family. ... [More]
Richard B Doubleday
Assistant Professor of Art The College of Fine Arts, Boston University | United States
Richard B. Doubleday is an Assistant Professor of Art at The College of Fine Arts, Boston University, USA and teaches in their London Summer British Programmes. He is also an award-winning designer and has exhibited his posters at the Seventh International Poster Triennial in Toyama, Japan, and the La Octava Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México, México City. He was a contributing writer for the 4th edition of Meggs’ History of Graphic Design and has been published in both Print and Baseline magazines. His recently published book Jan Tschichold Designer — The Penguin Years is available from Lund Humphries, UK and Oak Knoll Press, USA. ... [More]
Carima El-Behairy
Chief Financial Officer P22 Type Foundry | USA
Carima El-Behairy, co-founder of P22 type foundry, has been involved with the day-to-day operations of P22 since its beginnings in her living room in 1994. She is P22’s Chief Financial Officer and has helped guide the company through the perilous waters of licensing, working with foundations, and negotiating contracts and other legal obstacles. She also oversees all P22 marketing materials and publications. Finally, in addition to P22, Ms. El-Behairy finds time to raise 2 boys, pamper 2 basenjis, and serve as a founding trustee for Oracle Charter School, opening in 2005. ... [More]
Veronika Elsner
Managing Director Elsner-Flake GmbH | Germany
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Javier Errea
Director Errea Communicacion
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J. Victor Gaultney
Type Designer SIL International | United Kingdom
Victor Gaultney found his way to type through dance, mathematics, music and calligraphy. He has been a type designer at SIL International since 1991, and focuses on developing fonts for minority language groups around the world. He holds an MA from the University of Reading and has been a winner in two international typeface design competitions.... [More]
Oleg Genisaretskiy
| Russia
Oleg Genisaretskiy’s main area of interest is the humanitarian strategies and practices; the methodology of visual design, and contemporary design culture; humanitarian psychotherapy and traditional psycho-practices; the Russian spiritual and creational tradition. At different times Genisaretsky served as the head of the Creative Club of the Section of Painting of the Moscow Union of Graphic Artists; the co-chairman of the Religious-Cultural Dialogue “Face-to-Face”; the president of the Russian Association of Visual Anthropology; the president of the Open Museum Association. He authored the monographs Dizayn i kultura [“Design and culture”], Moscow: vniite, 1974; Uprazhneniya suti dela [“Exercises in the matter of fact”], Moscow: Russkii Mir, 1993; Povody i nameki [“Pretexts and hints”], Moscow: Put’, 1993; O vozmozhnosti filosofii [“Of the possibility of philosophy”], in co-operation with David Zilberman, Moscow: Put’, 2005; Navigator: Methodologicheskie prodolzheniya i rashireniya [“The Navigator: Methodological continuations and extensions”], Moscow: Put’, 2005. Main essays and full bibliography can be found at www.prometa.ru.... [More]
Verena Gerlach
graphic and type designer fraugerlach | Germany
Verena Gerlach was born 1971 in Berlin and studied Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee. Shortly after finishing art school in 1998 and two visits to the UK as an exchange student, she founded her own studio for graphic design, type design and typography. Since 2003, Verena has been member of Berlin based font labelprimetype.com. She has lectured in type design and typography atdesignakademie berlin since 2003.... [More]
Ted Harrison
President Fontlab Ltd. | Canada
Ted Harrison and Yuri Yarmola started Fontlab Ltd. shortly after Ted’s graduation from the Wharton School as a freshly minted MBA. As President of the company, Ted’s responsibilities include financial management, marketing, and distribution of Fontlab products. Dr. Harrison (M.D., 1975) has started a number of companies in addition to Fontlab and has extensive experience in international business and trade. He once tried his hand at designing a typeface but was told to stick to things for which he had some aptitude.... [More]
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks | Canada
John Hudson is a type designer and co-founder of Tiro Typeworks, Vancouver. Since 1997, he has specialised in the design and development of custom fonts for multilingual computing. Tiro Typework's clients include Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and Linotype Library, as well as many smaller companies and scholarly communities. In addition to his type design activities, John writes and lectures on font technology issues.... [More]
Anthony Inciong
Educator Montclair State University | USA
Anthony Inciong is an Assistant Professor of graphic design at Montclair State University, College of the Arts. He received a BFA in graphic design from Rutgers University-Newark and an MGD from The College of Design at North Carolina State University. His critical essays have been published by AIGA, Open Manifesto, and Emigre.... [More]
Mark Jamra
Typographic Designer TypeCulture | United States
Mark Jamra is a type designer, typographic designer and Associate Professor at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. He has designed and produced typefaces for over 20 years and is the founder of TypeCulture, a digital type foundry and academic resource. He also designs books, creates short documentary films and is a partner in Alice Design Communication, a collective of communication designers and specialists in Portland. His typeface designs include: Alphatier, Brynmorgen Greek, Expo Sans, Expo Sans Dotscreen, Expo Sans Inline, ITC Jamille, Latienne, Quelle Bold, Tacitus and Kinesis, an Adobe Original. His lettering and typefaces have been shown in numerous exhibitions and have received awards from the Type Directors Club and the Association Typographique Internationale.
Mark graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kent State University and completed his graduate studies in 1983 at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. He has lectured, conducted workshops and taught graphic design, typography, letterform design and type history at colleges in the U.S. and Germany. He has also been a typographic consultant to the Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol, England, and for URW Software & Type GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, where he lived for 12 years. ... [More]
R. K. Joshi
B-9 Bakul, M.Phule Society | India
Professor Raghunath K. Joshi (1936–2008): calligrapher, designer, poet, researcher and teacher. After a meritorious 30 year career in the mass communication industry, Prof. Joshi spent 15 years teaching design courses IDC/IIT in Mumbai. He later served as a visiting design specialist at the Centre for Developed of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Mumbai. Prof. Joshi helped develop font design software, Indian language word processing packages and designed series of Indic fonts for Microsoft Windows and Linux. He organized exhibitions, workshops and seminars on various aspects of Indian letterforms and exhibited his calligraphic works at educational Institutes and public places. He also wrote poems, staged multilingual happenings, planned multilingual communication campaigns and undertook the first ever calligraphic research in Indian manuscripts and epigraphic writings. Prof. Joshi spoke on Indian design, calligraphy, type design, compugraphy for ATypI, TDC, Icograda and other organizations. He received numerous awards including the CAG Hall of Fame (1992) and the Ad Club Distinguished Achievement Award (2004). For the past couple of years, Prof. Joshi has shared the duties of ATypI country delegate for India with Rathna Ramanathan. Prof. R K Joshi passed away in San Francisco on February 5th, 2008, at the age of 72. “I’m sure many ATypI members will recall Professor Joshi’s always delightful conference presentations. If ATypI gave an ‘audience choice’ award, Professor Joshi’s presentation in Rome, 2002, would certainly have received it,” said John Hudson, former vice-president of ATypI. A recording of a 2007 interview with Prof. Joshi is available in the TypeRadio archive. An obituary notice has been posted on the C-DAC website. ... [More]
Lars Kähler
Printing engineer --- | Germany
Lars Kähler, born in 1962, got to be a typesetter in 1987. In 1994, he became a printing engineer and has been a teacher for typography and printing technology. He lives in Lübeck, Northern Germany. By now, he is working full-time on his project.... [More]
Ben C Kiel
typeface designer House Industries | United States
Ben Kiel designs typefaces for House Industries. A lifelong fascination with letters sent him to the MA in Typeface Design program at the University of Reading, UK. While there, he became interested in Python scripting as a way to speed up the design process. He is currently at work on a beginners guide to Python scripting for FontLab.... [More]
Eric Kindel
Lecturer Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading | United Kingdom
Eric Kindel is a Lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. His research into stencilling began in 1999 and has, since 2001, involved collaborative work with Fred Smeijers and James Mosley to reconstruct methods of stencil work from the 17th and 18th centuries. Publications on the subject include ‘Stencil work in America, 1850–1900’ (Baseline 38, 2002), ‘Recollecting stencil letters’ (Typography papers 5, 2003) and ‘Patents progress: the Adjustable Stencil’ (Journal of the Printing Historical Society, no. 9, 2006). ... [More]
Gerry Leonidas
Senior Lecturer in Typography University of Reading | United Kingdom
Gerry Leonidas studied Business Administration and Journalism, and worked in book and magazine publishing in Greece before finding his way to the University of Reading for postgraduate studies in typography. He never got round to leaving, and now teaches typographic design with a bias for the online. He is also the MA Typeface Design programme director, and designs when time permits, but mostly helps others tackle Greek typefaces. He is long overdue with his PhD on design processes in Greek and Latin digital typefaces.... [More]
Julia Lila
Graphic Designer Helsinki City Transport HKL | Finland
Graduated as a Graphic Artist in Commercial Art in 1994 (North Tech, Palm Beach, USA). She won 1st place in Computer Multimedia (Fame) for local, state and international levels as a student and was recruited directly from art school by an advertising agency. Since, she has worked extensively as a Graphic Designer as well as an Art Director in advertising agencies and inhouse art departments both in USA and Finland. Member of GRAFIA ry (Association of Professional Graphic Designers of Finland) and KUVASTO ry (Association of Artists) among others such as ATypI. She is currently working in her native of Finland as the Graphic Designer of Helsinki City Transport HKL.... [More]
Ellen Lupton
Writer, designer, curator Cooper-Hewitt Museum | United States
Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the MFA program in graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. She is the author of Thinking with Type (2004) and editor of D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006). She also is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, where she has organized numerous exhibitions, each accompanied by a major publication, including the National Design Triennial series (2000 and 2003), Skin: Surface, Substance + Design (2002), Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (1999), Mixing Messages (1996), and Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office. She is working on a new basic guide to graphic design directed at students worldwide, called Graphic Design: Structure and Experiment. ... [More]
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Thomas Maier
Assistant Lecturer University for Art and Industrial Design | Austria
Thomas Maier assistant lecturer, student University for Art and Industrial Design Linz, Austria
Thomas Maier, born 1973, Graz, Austria was educated at Graphicdesigner, 1987-1992, and a Master Class for Painting 1992-1994. He studied Experimental Visual Design at the University of Art and Industrial Design ,1994-2003, Diploma in photographic film techniques. Since 2003, thesis on the development of typeface technologies
Works as a graphic designer since 1993, including catalogues for artists’ exhibitions, design of some typefaces for exclusive use in design jobs. ... [More]
Sergey Malkin
Senior Software Design Engineer Microsoft Corporation | United States
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Peter K Martin
Type Designer SIL International | United Kingdom
Peter Martin has been designing Latin and Non-Latin typefaces for SIL International since 1994, as well as providing web and database services for internal and external users.... [More]
Henrique Nardi
Typographer Tipogracia | Brazil
Henrique Nardi was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He has Bachelor degree. in Graphic Design, Anhembi Morumbi, Graphic Technology at SENAI and a Master degree in Visual Arts, UNESP. In 2003, together with Marcio Shimabukuro, he co-founded "Tipocracia: typographic state", a type of education project concerned with the stimulation and dissemination typographic cultural throughout Brazil.... [More]
Raquel Pelta
Professor of history of Design Istituto Europeo di Design - Madrid | Spain
Raquel Pelta, Graphic Design Historian, Ph Doctor in Arts. Professor of History of Design at Elisava School of Design (University Pompeu Fabra-Barcelona). Editor of Visual magazine (2001-2004). Curator of exhibitions and responsible for the I and II Spanish Typographical Conference (Valencia 2004 and Valencia 2006). Lecturer and graphic design journalist. Her publications include more than 100 articles and several books about graphic design. Member of the board of ADG-FAD (the main Graphic Design Association of Spain).... [More]
Luciano Perondi
Molotro/Isia Urbino | Italy
Luciano Perondi is a type and information designer and a journalist, founder of Molotro (a type design studio), he teaches typography at Politecnico di Bari, Accedemia delle Belle Arti di Urbino, IED in Milan. He is co-founder of EXP research team, whom aim is to study the writing systems and the reading process and to apply these studies to graphic design. He is interested in any aspect of writing both in the history of writing and its developments beyond the alphabet.... [More]
Antonio Perri
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Antonio Perri held a PhD in Semotics in Italy at Bologna University, tutored by Umberto Eco. He currently teaches Semiotics at the Università “La Sapienza” of Rome. His research deals with the study of writing systems (Aztec writing in particular) from a semio-anthropological perspective. Antonio Perri is author of two books – Il Codex Mendoza e le due paleografie and La parola fiorita (with J. Galarza and G. de Finis) – and a number of articles, including “Le medium et le message” and “Writing.”... [More]
Thomas Phinney
Program Manager Adobe Systems | USA
Thomas Phinney has been in Adobe’s type group since 1997, currently as Product Manager for Fonts & Global Typography, based in Seattle. He is involved in the technical, design, historical and business aspects of type, as well as working closely with other font developers and customers. His typeface “Hypatia Sans” has been published in the Adobe Originals series. He has a Master's degree in typography and design from RIT, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. He has been eager to resolve the web font problem for many years, but isn’t happy with the “raw fonts” approach. ... [More]
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Andreu Balius Planelles
type designer TypeRepublic | Spain
Andreu Balius Planelles is a graphic and type designer based in Barcelona. He was the creator of the typographical project Garcia fonts & Co. (1992), and founder of the Typerware studio (1996-2001). At present he runs his own (type) design studio. He studied Sociology in the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona and Graphic Design. He is presently an associate professor of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and has received various prizes for his typographical projects.... [More]
Jean François Porchez
Type Designer Porchez Typofonderie | France
Jean François Porchez was trained as a graphic designer and while working as a type director, created typefaces for Le Monde and the Paris métro. He designs typefaces for clients, such as The Baltimore Sun, Beyoncé, Croisieres Costa, France Telecom, Peugeot, Renault, and distributes his retail fonts through www.typofonderie.com. He is currently President of ATypI (2004-07), teaches type design at Reading University, and conducts type workshops around the world. Awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998, many of his typefaces have received honorable recognition.... [More]
Mark Porter
Creative Director The Guardian | United Kingdom
Mark Porter is an editorial designer. He was born in Scotland and studied at Oxford University. Initially self-taught, he learnt from some of London and New York's best Art Directors. He has designed a range of award-winning magazines and newspapers, and consulted for publishers throughout Europe. Mark joined The Guardian in 1995, later becoming Head of Design and then Creative Director. In 2005, he masterminded the seminal redesign of the Guardian in the Berliner format. His work has been awarded the highest honours by many organisations including the Society for News Design, the Society of Publication Designers, and D&AD. ... [More]
Vitor Quelhas
Communication designer | Portugal
Vítor Quelhas received an MA in Multimedia Arts at Fine Arts School of the University of Porto (FBAUP), Portugal, with a thesis on Dynamic Typography. He studied Communication Design/Graphic Arts at FBAUP, where he graduated in 2002. In 2001/02 he studied abroad as an ERASMUS student in Communication Design at Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is an invited Assistant Professor of Computation and Fine Arts, Communication Design, at the Department of Visual Arts, Bragança Polytechnic Institute, since 2002. As a designer, he has been responsible for different projects, including DynTypo, his research website concerning dynamic typography.... [More]
José Maria Ribagorda
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Estudios: Licenciado en Bellas Artes; Realiza los cursos de doctorado en la Facutad de Ciencias de la Información; Diploma de Estudios Avanzados en el tema: “La interfaz gráfica de usuario. De la tipografía a la hipertipografía”
Experiencia docente: Jefe del Departamento de Estudios superiores de Diseño de la Escuela de Arte diez de Madrid; Profesor asociado del departamento de Dibujo II de la Facultad de BBAA de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Experiencia profesional: 1986-1996 Socio fundador del estudio de Diseño Gráfico Arquetipo, Director de tipografos.com; Cofundador del I Congreso Nacional de Tipografía y director de las actividades de Madrid; Director en Madrid del II Congreso Nacional de Tipografía en España
Publicaciones: 1995. Tipografía Imagen Invisible, presentación de la tipografía hispana. Artículos para revistas y catálogos especializados
Tipografías: 1996 Hispana, 1999 Ibarra de Richard Gans junto a Mario Sanchez, 2004 Tipografía Arquetipo. Propuesta de fuente plantilla para tipografos.com; 2005 Tipografía corporativa de Cromotex ... [More]
Jay Stephen Rutherford
Professor of Visual Communications Bauhaus-Universität Weimar | Germany
Born in 1950 of a family of sign painters and opticians, Jay Rutherford grew up in central Canada where he studied graphic design, worked as a silk-screen printer, sign painter, guitar player, teacher and graphic designer. At the end of the seventies he moved to Nova Scotia, eventually went back to school to study visual communications, and then opened his own design studio. After teaching at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design for a few years, he visited Germany for the first time in 1992 where he had been invited to teach a type design workshop at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld. In the Fall of that year, he joined the team at MetaDesign in Berlin where he worked on several type design projects. While at Meta, Jay heard about the planned opening of a new Faculty of Art and Design at what was once, and is now once again, the Bauhaus in Weimar. He became one of the founding faculty in 1993 and continues to teach Visual Communications with an emphasis on typography and information design. Current projects include DDIA (Digital Design Image Archive), idX (Information Design eXchange), and "Words on the Wall". Rutherford is a speaker at international design and typography conferences and an oft-invited consultant and guest lecturer in the United States, England, Austria, Italy, Belgium, Japan and Germany. ... [More]
Jose Scaglione
Designer TypeTogether | Argentina
José Scaglione is an Argentinian graphic and multimedia designer, and a graduate from the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, UK. He's working in branding, editorial design and multimedia projects since 1995. He was co-founder of Vision Media Design Studio in Argentina and art director Multiplicity Advertising and The prepaid Press in USA. José currently leads his own design studio, consults and lectures on typography and graphic communication matters. He also teaches typography at post-graduate level at the National University of Rosario and he is a board member of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale)... [More]
Christian E Schwartz
Schwartzco | USA
Christian Schwartz (b. 1977) is an independent type designer in New York City, principal of Schwartzco, Inc. and a partner in Orange Italic. A former employee of MetaDesign Berlin and later Font Bureau, he has designed commercial fonts for many leading foundries as well as proprietary designs for a number of corporations and publications. His work has been honored by the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Design Museum in London, and D&AD.... [More]
Dawn Shaikh
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Dawn Shaikh is currently working towards a PhD in Human Factors Psychology/Human Computer Interaction at Wichita State University. Her research, which looks at onscreen reading issues and font legibility, has been funded by Microsoft’s Advanced Reading Technology group. ... [More]
Fred Smeijers
Partner Ourtype | Belgium
Fred Smeijers is a first generation digital type designer, though his interests and practice are rooted in the years before digital technologies became crucially important. He has now amassed some twenty years involvement with letterforms in general, and with the design and use of type and its history in particular. Smeijers is known internationally as a writer and lecturer, but above all as a type designer. His work encompasses custom-made types for clients including Philips and Canon, as well as commercially available types such as FF Quadraat, TEFF Renard, and OurType Arnhem, Fresco and Sansa. Smeijers is a visiting Professor on the postgraduate Type & Media course at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, and Professor of Digital Typography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig. He is the author of Counterpunch and Type now (both Hyphen Press, London), winner of the Gerrit Noordzij Award (2000), and co-founder of OurType. Current research involves the history and technologies of text stencilling, with Eric Kindel, and typecasting, conducted under the auspices of the Plantin Moretus Museum, Antwerp.... [More]
Miguel Sousa
Type Designer & Font Developer Adobe Systems | United States
Miguel Sousa is a Portuguese typeface designer and font developer, who received a MA in Typeface Design with Distinction, from The University of Reading in 2005. His typeface Calouste was awarded the TDC2 Certificate of Excellence in Type Design in 2006. He now works with Adobe Systems, where he helps develop new fonts.... [More]
Erik Spiekermann
Designer | Germany
Erik Spiekermann is information architect, type designer (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk et al.) and author. He was founder (1979) of MetaDesign, Germany’s largest design firm with offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco. In 1988 he started FontShop. He holds an honorary professorship at the Academy of Arts in Bremen, is board member of ATypI and the German Design Council, and president of the istd International Society of Typographic Designers. In July 2000, Erik left MetaDesign Berlin. He now lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco, designing publications, complex design systems and more typefaces.... [More]
Klaus-Peter Staudinger
Graphic Designer, Typographer | Specialist Author farbton Kommunikation | Germany
KPS was born 1956 in Essen (Ruhr). He studied communication design at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. After working several years as freelancer and artist, 1988 he became head of the preprint studio Workshop and following consultant for Jöschli:Hamburg. 1994 he started with his label “Types and More”, publishing on typography for leading German magazines. In 1996 he co-founded the media agency “FarbTon”. First a freelance network it is now by 2006 “farbton Kommunikation”, specialized on corporate design and communication. KPS has been lecturer at private academies and the University of Applied Science Anhalt-Dessau. He is member of Kunstverein Hamburg, Forum Typografie and AGD Alliance of German Designers. And he is also practising Kyudo for some years.... [More]
Adam Twardoch
Fontlab Ltd. / MyFonts | Germany
Adam Twardoch specializes in font tool development, font technology and multilingual typography, with special focus on Central European issues and OpenType. He is product and marketing manager at Fontlab Ltd. In addition, he serves as typographic consultant to MyFonts and provides consulting services to other clients worldwide, including Adobe Systems, Bistream, Corel Corp., Linotype, Monotype, Tiro Typeworks, Underware and others. Adam regularly writes and lectures about fonts and typography. And he helps type designers to get their ogoneks right. In 2000-2006, Adam was member of the ATypI Board and the ATypI country delegate for Poland. Born in Poland, Adam Twardoch now lives in Berlin.... [More]
Gerard Unger
Type Designer | The Netherlands
Gerard Unger (b. 1942) is a graphic designer, type designer, typographer and typographic consultant. He studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and becaine a freelance designer in 1972. He now teaches at the Academie, and at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, England. His numerous typeface designs include the highly regarded newspaper types Swift and Gulliver, and Capitoleum, designed for the city of Rome during the Catholic jubilee of 2000. He has received many awards for his work, including the 1991 Maurits Enschedé prize for his overall contribution to type design.... [More]
Petr van Blokland
Graphic Designer Buro Petr van Blokland & Claudia Mens | Netherlands
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Massimo Vignelli
Vignelli Associates
With Lella Vignelli, Massimo established the offices of Vignelli Associates in 1971, and Vignelli Designs in 1978. His work includes graphic and corporate identity programs, publication designs, architectural graphics, and exhibition, interior, furniture, and consumer product designs.... [More]
Tiffany Wardle de Sousa
FDRC | United States
Tiffany Wardle is a graduate of the BFA Graphic Design program from Brigham Young University and is also a graduate of the MA Theory and History of Typography & Graphic Communication program at the University of Reading. Tiffany is a graphic designer and educator living near Salt Lake City. She is on the board of the Society of Typographic Aficionados and in her spare time is also a moderator and the dedicated virtual librarian at Typophile.com. For more information: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanywardle... [More]
Petra Weitz
FontShop International | Germany
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Gisela Will
Graphic/Type Designer Zeichen der Zeit | Germany
Gisela Will, born in 1962, is a graphic designer with eight years of experience in the field of type design and production. She now runs her own design firm specializing in corporate design and typography.... [More]
Jürgen Willrodt
Managing Director URW++ | Germany
Jürgen Willrodt was born in Hamburg in 1950. He studied Physics and Mathematics and got a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics in 1976, after which he did several years research in that field. Willrodt joined URW 1983 as a software developer. He has been the main developer of the IKARUS font production system since 1985, developing interpolation, autotracing, and hinting algorithms as well as special algorithms for Kanji separation. Since 1995 he has been managing director at URW++ and responsible for font production and font tools development (IKARUS and DTL FontMaster). ... [More]
Yuri Yarmola
Vice President R&D Fontlab Ltd. | Russia
Yuri Yarmola began dabbling with fonts in 1989, and designed the first of many font editors and utilities in 1991. He designed and led development of all versions of FontLab. He lives and works in St Petersburg, Russia, as Vice President Research & Development of FontLab Ltd. When not working, he skis on high mountains.... [More]
Mathias Zimmer-Goertz
Mathias Zimmer-Goertz specialises in intellectual property law (especially copyright and trade mark law) as well as competition law. His main area of practice includes the drafting and negotiating of licensing agreements and the defence of intellectual property rights.... [More]