Speakers
ATypI Lisbon 2006
| Tim Ahrens | Peter Bain | Phil Baines | Andreu Balius | 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 M. Chaccur | Barbara S Chaparro | François Chastanet | Albert Corbeto | Corina Cotorobai | 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 | Berton E Hasebe | 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 | Jean François Porchez | Mark Porter | Vitor Quelhas | José Maria Ribagorda | Jay Stephen Rutherford | José Scaglione | Dawn Shaikh | 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
Type designer and architect Tim Ahrens runs the London-based studio Just Another Foundry. He is the creator of the Font Remix Tools and does research and writing about type related matters ... [More]
Peter Bain
Assistant Professor Mississippi State University | USA
Peter Bain is Assistant Professor of Art at Mississippi State University, teaching typography and graphic design. He has been principal of Incipit, a 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 received his MFA in Design: Visual Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.... [More]
Phil Baines
Professor of Typography: UAL:Central Saint Martins | Designer & writer Phil Baines studio / Central Saint Martins | 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]
Andreu Balius
type designer TypeRepublic | Spain
Andreu Balius is a graphic and (type) designer based in Barcelona. He runs his own studio Typerepublic. Andreu combines his work at the studio with teaching graphic design and typography. He is presently an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Apart from his type affairs, he also loves riding on his mountain bike.... [More]
Andrew Barker
Designer Andrew Barker Information Design | 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
Program Manager Microsoft Typography | USA
John D. Berry is an editor and typographer who works both sides of the design/content divide. 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 is currently a program manager with Microsoft Typography. 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 is type designer (of, amongst others, DTL Documenta and DTL Haarlemmer), Senior Lecturer ‘Letters’ at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague since 1987 and Professor at the Plantin Society in Antwerp since 1995. Frank founded the Dutch Type Library in 1990 and a couple of years later he initiated and supervised the development of DTL FontMaster, a set of professional font tools developed together with URW++. Currently he is doing a PhD study at Leiden University on the harmonics, patterns and dynamics in formal typographic representations of the Latin script.... [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 M. Chaccur
Designer/ College tutor | 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
Born in 1975 in Bordeaux, France. A graduate of the École d’Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux, he pursued research in 2000 on signage systems at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, and completed post-diploma studies in architectural and urban history at the École d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville in 2001. Teaches graphic design and typography since 2002 at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, France. Works in architecture, graphic and type design and writes on contemporary epigraphy, with a special interest in the visual communication of urban subcultures. Already published a work of reference entitled ‹Pixação: São Paulo Signature›, a photographic survey in São Paulo, Brazil, documenting the relation between urban signature, body and architecture. Is about to publish a second work about Cholo Writing in Los Angeles at Dokument Press, fall 2009. www.francoischastanet.fr ... [More]
Albert Corbeto
Historian Reial Academia de Bones Lletres | Spain
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 and books on this subject.... [More]
Corina Cotorobai
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]
Jo De Baerdemaeker
typeface designer / researcher | Belgium
Jo De Baerdemaeker is a Belgian typeface designer, who received an MA with distinction in Typeface Design from the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication (University of Reading, UK) in 2004. During this MA he designed Lungta, a Latin-Tibetan OpenType font. In October 2005 he started a PhD at the Typography Department on 'Tibetan typeforms: an historical and visual analysis of Tibetan typefaces from their inception in 1738 up to the present day'. (www.typojo.com) ... [More]
Catherine Dixon
Senior Lecturer / Designer Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design / Catherine Dixon: Design & Writing | UK
Catherine Dixon is a designer who also teaches at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London. She writes regularly on typography and type design, curates the bi-annual letterpress conference at St Bride Library, London and co-authored with Phil Baines the book Signs: lettering in the environment (2003). ... [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 GbR | 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 in Berlin and studied Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee. Shortly after finishing art school in 1998, she founded her own studio (fraugerlach) for graphic design, type design and typography. Beside all kind of typographic print works and typedesign, Verena also artdirected several video clips and worked on the typographic production for international contemporary artists. Verena has lectured in type design and typography at designakademie berlin from 2003– 2009 and gives lectures and workshops about type- and graphic design all over the globe. She also works as a freelance book designer for the German publisher Hatje Cantz.... [More]
Ted Harrison
President Fontlab Ltd. | Canada
Dr. Harrison is the president and co-founder of Fontlab Ltd. He has been a member of ATypI for fourteen years and is a member of the board of directors. ... [More]
Berton E Hasebe
Commercial Type | 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]
John Hudson
Type Designer 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
Designer/Educator 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 curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Recent books include Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things (2009), co-authored with Julia Lupton, and Thinking with Type, Second Edition (2010). Her exhibitions include the National Design Triennial series and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design. She has produced a series of publications with her graduate students at MICA, including D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), Indie Publishing (2008), and Graphic Design: The New Basics (2008). Ellen has contributed to various publications, including Print, Eye, I.D., Metropolis, and the New York Times. She is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal.... [More]
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The journey back to universalism
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 States
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 Bachelors degree in Graphic Design at Anhembi Morumbi, Graphic Technology at SENAI and a Master degree in Visual Arts at UNESP. In 2003, he founded "Tipocracia: typographic state", a project concerned with typographic culture stimulus and dissemination 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
| USA
Thomas Phinney is senior product manager for font solutions at Extensis. From 1997-2008 he worked in type at Adobe, lastly as product manager for fonts and global typography. Thomas is involved in the design, technical, forensic, business and historical aspects of type, treasurer of ATypI, and writes for Communication Arts and CreativePro.com as well as thomasphinney.com. He has testified in court as an expert witness, and was twice quoted in the Washington Post regarding the presumably forged National Guard memos concerning US President Bush. Thomas has an MS in printing from RIT, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. His typeface Hypatia Sans is an Adobe Original... [More]
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Jean François Porchez
Type Designer Typofonderie | France
After training as a graphic designer, during which he focused on type design, Jean François Porchez (born 1964) worked as a type director at Dragon Rouge. By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde newspapers. Founder of Typofonderie, his expertise enables him to propose bespoke typefaces for the Baltimore Sun, Beyoncé Knowles, Costa Crocieres, France Télécom, Louis Vuitton, Peugeot, RATP (Public Transport in Paris). His retail typefaces are distributed through typofonderie.com. He is honorary President of the Association Typographique Internationale (was ATypI President in 2004–2007). Founded the french community Le Typographe in 2003. Introduced to French Who’s who in 2009. He taught type design at the MA typefaces design at the Reading University (United Kingdom) and at Ensad and conduct regularly type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. He published Lettres Françaises, a book (in French & English) that shows all contemporary French, digital typefaces. For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he has created a revival of the Sabon, a Jan Tschichold revival of Garamond in 2002. In late 2001 he was the President of a jury set up by the Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale to select the new handwriting model and system for France and was a jury member of the 3rd Linotype Type design Contest (Germany, 1999), of the of the 1st Biennial of Slovene Visual Communications (Slovenia, 2003) of the Typeface design competition TDC2 (United States, 2005). He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998. FF Angie (1990) & Apolline (1993) were prize-winning entries in the Morisawa typeface competition. Costa received a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the TDC2 2000. Ambroise, Anisette, Anisette Petite, Charente, Le Monde Journal, & Le Monde Courrier were all prize-winning entries in the Bukva:raz international competition (2001). Deréon and Mencken won a Creative Review Type Awards (2006). Parisine Office won a star at the Observeur du design 07. Vuitton Persona selected by the Club des directeurs artistiques for their annual “Palmarès” 2009. Retiro received a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the TDC2 2010 and won the Prix 2009 of the Club des directeurs artistiques, design category.... [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]
José Scaglione
Founder TypeTogether | Argentina
José Scaglione is a graphic and multimedia designer, and a graduate from the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, UK. He currently teaches typography at the National University of Rosario, Argentina, and he runs his own design studio, specialized in editorial design, branding and typographic consultancy. He is a partner of the independent font foundry Type Together.... [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]
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
Product and marketing manager Fontlab Ltd. | Germany
Based in Berlin, Adam Twardoch is working in the field of font technology, multilingual typography, CSS webfonts, Unicode and OpenType. He serves as product and marketing manager at Fontlab Ltd. He also works as a typographic consultant to MyFonts and other clients worldwide. He is member of the ATypI Board and was involved in the organization of four ATypI conferences. Adam has been teaching workshops in font creation in the UK, USA, Germany, Russia and his native Poland. In 2007, he edited the Polish edition of Robert Bringhurst’s book “The Elements of Typographic Style”. ... [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 | The 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
Managing Director FSI FontShop International GmbH | 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
Dr. Jürgen Willrodt studied Physics and Mathematics and got a PhD in theoretical particle physics in 1976. Jürgen joined URW in 1983 as a software developer. His first major development project was the porting of Ikarus from DEC to Sun Unix. He has been the main developer of the Ikarus font production sytem since 1985, developing interpolation, auto-tracing and hinting algorithms as well as special algorithms for Kanji separation. Since 1995 Jürgen is managing director at URW++ Design & Development and responsible for font production and font tools development (Ikarus, DTL FontMaster, DTL OTMaster).... [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 and FontLab Studio, as well as a number of other applications published by Fontlab Ltd. He lives and works in St Petersburg, Russia, as Vice President Research & Development of Fontlab Ltd. In 2007, Yuri received the 2nd Linotype Font Technology Award. 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]