Speakers
ATypI Helsinki 2005
| Ulla Aartomaa | Mart Anderson | Danielle Aubert | Ebru Baranseli | Ken Barber | Mark Barratt | Clare Bell | Peter Bilak | Mary Anne Bolger | Lode Coen | Hugo Cavalheiro d'Alte | Sonia Díaz | Frederik de Bleser | Tom de Smedt | Adrian Englert | Oded Ezer | Gustavo Ferreira | Artur Frankowski | Mark Geard | Patrick Giasson | Katherine Gillieson | Catherine Griffiths | Tomi Haaparanta | Sirkka Havu | Syrup Helsinki | Jorma Hinkka | Yehuda Hofshi | Kristin Hughes | Johannes Küster | Paula Kokkonen | Kevin Larson | Juhani Lehtiranta | Tal Leming | Alessio Leonardi | Gerry Leonidas | Jarno Lukkarila | Paul Luna | Joonas Luotonen | Kamal Mansour | Aaron Marcus | Gabriel Martinez | Meta Newhouse | Lucas Nijs | Örjan Nordling | Nadezda Pavlova | Luciano Perondi | Yves Peters | Thomas Phinney | Andreu Balius Planelles | Jean François Porchez | Hugo Puttaert | Carolyn Puzzovio | Margaret Re | Kai Rentola | Nicola Robson | Barry Roseman | Ivar Sakk | Christina Schultz | Deborah Shmerler | Erik Spiekermann | Andreas Stötzner | Adi Stern | Sumner Stone | İpek Torun | Adam Twardoch | Geraldine Wade | Sue Walker | Simone Wolf | Masayuki Yamamoto | Yuri Yarmola | Alan Záruba |
Ulla Aartomaa
Ulla graduated from Jyväskylä University in 1977 with a degree in art history. From 1977 until 2005, Ulla was curator of the Lahti Art Museum, and between 1988–1991, was the director of the Lahti City Museum. Since February 2005, he has been the curator of the Sinebrychoff Art Museum at the Finnish National Gallery. Ulla writes extensively on his subject and has published around 100 articles about Finnish art and graphic design in addition to several monographs of Finnish artists and designers. He has also taught art history, focusing specifically on Finnish Graphic Design, throughout the world.... [More]
Mart Anderson
AD FIE | Estonia
Anderson has created several font families of the "national" typefaces, which he remembers from his childhood fairy-tale books. His fonts Pagana, Vaderi and others are based on a lettering of such Estonian mid-20th Century typographers as Günther Reindorff, Paul Luhtein and Villu Toots. And for his suprprise – society was expecting the national fonts! Mart Anderson (born 1969) studied printmaking in Estonian Art Academy. By now he is working in advertising agency Vatson & Vatson. Also he is a teacher of typography in graphic design department of Tartu Art College.... [More]
Danielle Aubert
Danielle Aubert received her Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art in 2005. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Virginia in 1998 and has since practiced graphic design in Moscow, New York and Detroit... [More]
Ebru Baranseli
Lecturer | Turkey
Ebru Baranseli graduated from the Graphic Design department at Hacettepe University, FADA, in 1996. In 2003, he gained an MFA in Graphic Design from Anadolu University, ISS, with the thesis ‘The Study Of Graphic Design Projects And The Presentation Advantages In Interactive Environment’. She now works as an instructor in the Graphic Design Department in FFA, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey... [More]
Ken Barber
House Industries | USA
Ken Barber is a type designer and letterer at House Industries and is particularly interested in the inter-disciplinary relationship between hand-lettering and type design. His work has been featured as part of the National Design Triennial at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and has also been honored by the New York Type Directors Club.... [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]
Clare Bell
Clare Bell received a BA(Hons) degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London after working as a designer in Dublin for eight years. She also worked in the design department of the Guardian newspaper for five years before returning to Dublin where she is undertaking a PhD at the Dublin Institute of Design and Technology, where she is a typography tutor... [More]
Peter Bilak
Typotheque | Slovakia / Netherlands
Peter Bilak was born in Czechoslovakia and now works in The Netherlands in the field of graphic and type design. In 1999 he started his type foundry Typotheque. In 2000, together with Stuart Bailey, he co-founded DOT DOT DOT magazine. He teaches typography part-time on the postgraduate course Type & Media at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague.... [More]
Mary Anne Bolger
Mary Ann Bolger runs the historical and theoretical elements of the Design Communications course at Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. Shereceived an MA from the Royal College of Art, London and now lectures widely on Irish graphic design and religious ephemera... [More]
Lode Coen
Antics Online Europe, bvba | Belgium
Lode Coen is a principal of his own design/e-marketing company, operating in Belgium and Silicon Valley, providing creative services for clients such as: Sun Microsystems, Earthlink, America Online, and Yahoo. He lectures at many colleges in Europe: the Lahti Polytechnic / Institute of Design (FI), UIAH University of Art and Design in Helsinki (FI), the Royal Academy in Antwerp (BE), the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL).... [More]
Hugo Cavalheiro d'Alte
| Finland / Portugal
Hugo d’Alte was born in Oporto, Portugal in 1975 and lives in Helsinki, Finland. He graduated from the Communication Design program at the Escola Superior de Arte e Design in Oporto, Portugal. He holds a Masters degree in ‘Type & Media’ at the Royal Academy of Fine & Applied Arts in Den Haag, The Netherlands. He has also worked in graphic design studios in Portugal, Spain, and Finland, and occasionally as a freelance graphic designer. He currently works at TBWA/PHS in Helsinki.... [More]
Sonia Díaz
Lecturer
Sonia Díaz has a degree in Fine Arts specialising in Design and Media from the University of Salamanca, a degree in Journalism and Public Relations from the Complutense University of Madrid, and a Masters in Museography and Exhibitions. She is currently a lecturer at Arts College 10 in Madrid, the Istituto Euopeo di Design, and the Complutense University of Madrid.... [More]
Frederik de Bleser
Programmer and graphic designer | Belgium
Frederik De Bleser's reimplementation of NodeBox signifies the juxtaposition of terminology and primacy of hive memory as a key determinant. It is significant, however, that another attempt at automated design incorporates formal dissertation and, it seems, conceptualizes this primacy of hive memory. The principle explained here represents a union with a symbiosis between a 'smurf'-factor and lexically relative robotic generation. The incorporation of intellingence into robotic design here creates a kind of responsive environment.... [More]
Tom de Smedt
Designer | Belgium
The categorical intelligence algorithms written by Tom De Smedt serve to prove the oblique empirical type as technology. The fact that another attempt at automated design here becomes the embodiment of transiently dysfunctional indeterminacy and, paradoxically, describes the conversion of essential semantical analysis of indeterminacy. The principle explained here prefigures the divergence of cross-referencing and statistical analysis; as well as a divergence of inherited terminology and repeatability.... [More]
Adrian Englert
Adrian Englert, a Swiss national of Russian origin, has contributed to many developments of text technologies: Macintosh russification, new font technologies, input methods, Russian spellchecker, old cyrillic rendering prototypes, cyrillic questions in the Unicode standart. He is passionately interested in slavonic, the liturgical language of the Russian orthodox Church.... [More]
Oded Ezer
| Israel
Oded Ezer is a world-known Israeli typographer and type designer. He graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, with degree in Visual Communication Design. In 2000, Ezer founded his own independent studio in Givatayim, Israel and two years later co-founded the first cooperative of Israeli font designers, ‘Ha’Gilda’ (The Guild). He teaches typography and graphic design in throughout the world and runs experimental projects where he explores non-conventional solutions in Hebrew typography. His posters and graphic works has been showcased and published worldwide... [More]
Gustavo Ferreira
| Germany
Gustavo Ferreira, a native of Brazil has a Bachelor degree in Graphic and Product Design at ESDI, in Brazil, and a Master degree in Communication Planning and Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. He has been working for two years on the "Elementar" system – it was both his diploma project at ESDI and his master thesis at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd.... [More]
Artur Frankowski
Type Designer Fontarte | Poland
Graphic designer, typographer, and type designer. Ph.D. from the Warsaw University of Technology on legibility of type on cartographic maps (2004). For the past decade full-time lecturer on typography and graphic design at the Warsaw University of Technology; also visiting lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and at other colleges in Poland. Artur has published articles on type and visual communication in Polish design & print magazines. He designed several typefaces — contemporary new designs as well as Polish avant-garde revivals. His typefaces include Grotesk Polski, a sans-serif companion to Poland’s eminent pre-WWII text face Antykwa Poltawskiego, as well as Julian, a typeface based on Wladyslaw Strzeminski’s lettering. In September 2004, with Magdalena Frankowska, he launched the Fontarte typography studio to design new typefaces and to promote the history of Polish typography through lectures and workshops. From June 2006 he is involved, together with another type designer – Henryk Sakwerda, in Silesian Type project, a design of a typeface Silesiana for the Polish province of Silesia. Artur Frankowski has been a member of ATypI since 1995, and spoke at the ATypI Helsinki 2005 conference. Since 2006, he is ATypI country delegate for Poland.... [More]
Mark Geard
Programme Leader Massey University | New Zaeland
Mark Geard is a New Zealander who has worked for the major part of his life as a graphic designer. He was co-partner in one of his country’s leading design firms Missen and Geard Ltd. In 1998 he took up a position at Massey University where he is now Programme Leader in the Visual Communication Design Department. His specialist area is typography and typeface design.... [More]
Patrick Giasson
Quick Brown Fox Monotype Imaging | UK
Patrick Giasson is a Canadian who now resides in England (for the weather). He enroled in the type design program at the University of Reading where he focused his studies on non-latin scripts and graduated in 2004. He is currently working as a type designer for Monotype Imaging UK.... [More]
Katherine Gillieson
designer, lecturer University of Reading | UK
Katherine is a designer and lecturer based in London, UK. She teaches at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.... [More]
Catherine Griffiths
| New Zealand
Catherine Griffiths is an independent typographer and designer practising in New Zealand. Projects include visual communications, exhibition and book design, and more recently, working with typography in public spaces, architecture and the landscape. In 2002, Catherine was awarded New Zealand's highest achieving graphic design award, the 'Stringer', and in Britain, her work was published in the typography category of the 2003 D&AD Annual. She was a keynote speaker at Australia's design conference, (X)periment, in 2003 (http://www.catherinegriffiths.co.nz).... [More]
Tomi Haaparanta
Typographer Suomi Type Foundry | Finland
Tomi Haaparanta is a type designer and typographer. He started his own foundry, the Suomi Type Foundry in early 2004. He got smitten with type design while studying in college in Ireland during the end of the 1980's, during a workshop run by Phil Baines, and has been working with type ever since. He has been working in a number of advertising and design companies before starting his own foundry, and now Finland is littered with typefaces and logos by Tomi Haaparanta. His fonts are distributed by most major type foundries and he is currently building his own type library on the web.... [More]
Sirkka Havu
| Finland
Sirkka Havu, holds a Master of Arts, from Helsinki University Library, National Library of Finland, Helsinki. Ms Havu is a specialist on book and library history. One of her most recent publications is an annotated catalogue concerning the collections donated by the Academy of Sciences of St Petersburg to the Alexander University of Finland in 1829.... [More]
Syrup Helsinki
| Finland
Established in 2001, Syrup Helsinki is a creative agency offering graphic design, creative direction, art direction, brand development, interactive design, motion graphics and illustration. The clients include companies and organizations such as Amnesty International, Arnold Palmer, David Yurman, Escalator Records, Fazer, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Finnish National Theatre, Image Publishing, Koneisto festival, Le Shop Stockholm, Nokia, Sony, Trans Europe Express festival, Vice magazine and Warner Records.... [More]
Jorma Hinkka
Graphic Designer Graafiset Neliot Oy | Finland
Jorma Hinkka entered the advertising business as a messenger boy at age seventeen. Three years later he started his studies at the Department of Graphic Arts at the School of Industrial Arts. After his studies Hinkka spent 30 years in advertising, finally as a partner in an agency specialized on business-to-business advertising. Thirteen years ago he started his own graphic design studio, Graafiset Neliöt where he specializes in design for art and photography books. Hinkka is a columnist for the magazine Grafia, a quarterly published by the Finnish organization for graphic design. Grafia nominated him as Graphic Designer of the Year in 1997.... [More]
Yehuda Hofshi
Typographer
Yehuda Hofshi is an Israeli typographer, design researcher and educator. He graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, with a degree in Visual Communication Design. After working as an art director, Hofshi founded his own studio in Tel Aviv. He was appointed head of the Visual Communication Department at the Technological Institute, Holon and also teaches typography and graphic design in several academies in Israel. Hofshi has published articles on subjects related to contemporary Israeli graphic and typographic design, and he is a contributor writer for Kredit Magazine for contemporary design... [More]
Kristin Hughes
Assistant Professor Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design
Kristin Hughes is Assistant Professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design, where she teaches two- and three-dimensional design, advanced typography, and senior studio. Her current research focus is the creation of design-based programming for at-risk urban youth that develops critical thinking and problem-solving skills. She is also collaborating with an interdisciplinary team on an National Science Foundation funded exploration of gender-sensitive science-based communications, "explanatoids." Explanatoids cultivates interest in science in pre-teen girls through environmental signage and programming. Ms. Hughes has a master's degree in visual communication from Virginia Commonwealth University. ... [More]
Johannes Küster
Mathematician, Typographer, Designer typoma | Germany
Johannes Küster graduated as mathematician at Munich Technical University. During his studies, he got involved in the typesetting and production of mathematical books. In 2000, he founded his own office, `typoma´, combining his interest in mathematics and in typography and design. He is currently working on designing mathematical fonts and scientific books, and he also writes and talks about mathematical typesetting and scientific typography.... [More]
Paula Kokkonen
Mayor for Social Affairs and Public Health City of Helsinki
OCCUPATIONS
Boys’ Home of Lauste, acting assistant nurse 1968
District Court of Turku, acting judge of the City Court 1971
Court District of Kemijärvi, full-time assistant 1972, temporary clerk 1972-1973, acting district judge 1973
Secretary to the University of Helsinki Faculty of Medicine 1973-1975
Secretary to the Executive Board of the Helsinki University Central Hospital 1975-1978
National Board of Health, Administrative Department, head of division 1978-1980, head of department 1980-1991
National Board of Health, general director 1984-1990
Extraordinary Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court 1986
National Board of Social Affairs and Health, general director 1991-1992
National Authority for Medicolegal Affairs, general director 1992-2004 (on leave of absence 1995-2003)
Mayor for Social Affairs and Public Health of the City of Helsinki as of August 16, 2004
POSITIONS OF TRUST
Member of the Finnish Parliament with the National Coalition Party 1995-2003
Social Affairs and Health Committee, member 1995-1999
Legal Affairs Committee, deputy member 1995-1999
Employment and Equality Committee, member 1995-1996
Commerce Committee, member 1996-1999
Constitutional Law Committee, member 1999-2003, chair 2000-2003
Advisory Board for Relations with Developing Countries, member 1999-2003
Foreign Affairs Committee, deputy member 1999-2003
Speaker’s Council, member 2000-2003
Conservative Party Chair in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly 2001-2003
Gender Advisor appointed by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly 2002-2003
The City of Helsinki,
Helsinki City Council, member 1993-1996, 2000-2004
Environmental Protection Committee, chair 1993-1996
Council on Disability, chair 1993-1996
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council, member 1993-1996
Helsinki City Theatre Foundation, Council of Representatives, chair 2002-2005
The Finnish Broadcasting Company Ltd (YLE), Supervisory Board member 1995-2002
The Finnish Social Insurance Institution (KELA), 2. deputy member for the Parliamentary Trustees 1995-1999
RAY (Finland’s Slot Machine Association), member of the Board of Directors 1999-2003
Juustopöytä ry cheese society, chair 1999-2004
Finnfund, chair of the Supervisory Board 2003-2004
Kalevala Koru Ltd, member of the Board of Directors 2003-
Elanto Cooperative, vice-chair of the Supervisory Board and member of the Council of Representatives 2003
Helsinki Cooperative Society HOK-Elanto, Supervisory Board member 2004-2006
The Council of Europe’s Committee on Bioethics, member 1979-1989, chair 1990-1991
Committee on Legal Protection in Health Care, member 1980-1982
The Finnish Association for Medical Law and Ethics, vice-chair of the Board of Directors 1981-1983, 1985-1986, chair 1987-1988
The Finnish Academy Central Committee of Sciences, Division of Research Ethics, member 1982-1989
The Finnish Centre for Pensions, Council of Representatives, deputy member 1983-1991, member 1992-1997, 2004
Adviser to the World Health Organization on Patient’s Rights 1985, 1989 and 1992
International Association of Bioethics, member of the Board of Directors 1995-1997
Delegation of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, deputy member for the chair 1985-1990, deputy member 1991-1993
The Finnish Society of Health Care Assessment, vice-chair of the Board of Directors 1988-1991
State Mental Hospitals Executive Board, deputy member 1988-1991
The National Public Health Institute, member of the Executive Board 1988-1991
The Terhokoti Hospice Foundation, Supervisory Board member 1985-
Committee on Working Conditions, member 1990-1991
Committee on Biotechnology, member 1990-1991
The World Association for Medical Law, member of the Board of Directors 1991-, vice-chair 1996-2002, 2004-
The Bioethics Committee of the Nordic Council of Ministers, member 1989-1991, chair 1991-1992
The Church Committee on Pastoral Care and Counselling, chair 1993-2004
European Journal of Health Law, Editorial Council member 1993-
World Psychiatry Association, Section of Psychiatry, Law and Ethics, section committee member 1993-1995
Supervision Board for Health Care Professionals, chair 1993-1995, 2003-2004
Board for issues related to Termination of Pregnancy and Sterilisation, chair 1993-1995, 2003-2004
Board for issues related to Castration, chair 1993-1995
Board for issues of Forensic Psychiatry, chair 1993-1995, 2003-2004
Journal of Medical Ethics, International Advisory Board, member 1995-
Honorary Member of the Hungarian Society of Forensic Medicine 1997-
The National Advisory Board on Health Care Ethics (ETENE), member 1998-2000, chair 2004-
Advisory Board on Professional Ethics in Pharmacy Practice, chair 1999-2004
HONOURS AND DECORATIONS
Senior Lawyer 1974
Knight 1st Class, the Order of the White Rose of Finland 1990
Cross of Merit for Disabled War Veterans 2001
Medal of Merit for Finnish Physical Education and Sports 2003
Medal of Merit of the Cancer Organisations 2003
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Kevin Larson
Researcher Microsoft Advanced Reading Technologies | USA
Kevin Larson received his PhD in cognitive psychology in 2000 from the University of Texas at Austin. His academic research was on word recognition and reading acquisition. He currently works for Microsoft's Advanced Reading Technology team working on the scientific understanding of ClearType and other reading technologies.... [More]
Juhani Lehtiranta
JL-types Ky | Finland
Juhani Lehtiranta is a Finnish Ph.D. of Linguistics who is still working in his place of birth, Nurmijärvi, near Helsinki. He has been busy with special fonts since 1985. In 1990 he established font design company, JL-types Ky. Lehtiranta's special interests are typefaces for European minority languages and custom made fonts. He created first fonts for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet already twenty years ago and recently he accomplished also an OpenType version of his one phonetic font... [More]
Tal Leming
Type Designer Type Supply | USA
Tal Leming is a 1997 graduate of the Louisiana State University Graphic Design program. After graduation he did stints as a designer at two agencies in Louisiana. He left the deep south in 2001 for the mean streets of Wilmington, Delaware where he worked at the legendary type foundry House Industries. In 2005 he started his own company which specializes in graphic design, typeface design, lettering and type technology services. ... [More]
Alessio Leonardi
President BuyMyFonts.com | Germany
Alessio Leonardi is an italian Type and Graphic Designer who lives since 1990 in Berlin, Germany. He worked at MetaDesign with Erik Spiekermann and then was (till 2005) one of the two owners of the Design Studio Leonardi.Wollein in Berlin. Today he and his wife Imme Leonardi run the Studio Lion&Bee.
About the typographical side of his work: starting from 1992 many of his typefaces are published by the FontShop International and Linotype Library. He was co-founder of the fontlabels Face2Face (with Alexander Branczyk, a.o.) and Fontology (with Fabrizio Schiavi). Since 2001 he is the country delegate for Italy at the ATypI. In 2002 he founded the Company BuyMyFonts.com that produces typefaces for corporate applications and also for standard use.
Alessio Leonardi writes articles for type and design magazines worldwide and gives lectures at international conferences. In 2004 he published his book From the Cow to the Typewriter: the (true) History of Writing.
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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]
Jarno Lukkarila
Type Designer / Graphic Designer Format Design | Finland
Jarno Lukkarila (born 1978) works widely in graphic design. As the author of the typography reference book Tekstuuri (2001) he is one of the few writing about the subject in the Finnish language. He runs a typographic oriented design studio Format Design and lectures part-time on typography in Finnish design schools. As a type designer Lukkarila was recognized in the Morisawa Awards 2002, where his Xtra Sans typeface received the bronze prize in the Latin category. Lukkarila studied type design at the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, in the postgraduate course Type & Media highlighted by the writing and lettering workshop of Gerrit Noordzij in 2000. Before this he graduated as graphic designer in Finland. ... [More]
Paul Luna
Professor University of Reading | United Kingdom
Professor Paul Luna designed the Oxford English Dictionary 2/e, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 5/e, and is the author of ‘Clearly defined: continuity and innovation in the typography of English dictionaries’, Typography papers (4, 2000, 5–56), ‘Not just a pretty face: the contribution of typography to lexicography’, Proceedings, The Eleventh Euralex International Congress (2004, 847–57), and ‘The typographic design of Johnson’s dictionary’ in Jack Lynch and Ann McDermott, Anniversary essays for Johnson’s Dictionary, Cambridge: CUP (to be published April 2005). ... [More]
Joonas Luotonen
| Finland
Joonas Luotonen (MA) is Helsinki (Finland) based graphic designer. He is specialized in designing user interfaces and content for small screens and hand held devices. Recently, he's been working for companies like Suunto, Siemens, Samsung, Hewlett Packard and THQ as a team member of Maxrumpus Ltd. - a developer of Maxdox® mobile document technology.Joonas has given lectures on graphic design and mobile content design in Helsinki University of Technology, Lahti Polytechnic and Turku Polytechnic.... [More]
Kamal Mansour
Manager of Non-Latin Products Monotype Imaging | USA
An early multilingual education served to stimulate Kamal’s interest in languages, alphabets, and later on, typography. His studies have spanned Computer Science, Linguistics, and Product Design. Having worked at Monotype for more than 10 years, Kamal has been involved in the many aspects of multilingual typography and font development. During that time, he has also participated actively in various activities related to the Unicode Standard. In the last few years, his work has included OpenType implementations for various scripts including Arabic, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Thai, Lao, and Japanese. ... [More]
Aaron Marcus
President and Principal Designer/Analyst Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. | USA
Mr. Marcus is the founder and President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A). A graduate in physics from Princeton University and in graphic design from Yale University, in 1967 he became the world's first graphic designer to be involved fulltime in computer graphics. In the 1970s he programmed a prototype desktop publishing page layout application for the Picturephone (tm) at AT&T Bell Labs, programmed virtual reality spaces while a faculty member at Princeton University, and directed an international team of visual communicators as a Research Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu. In the early 1980s he taught at the University of California/Berkeley, was a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, founded AM+A, and began research as a Co-Principal Investigator of a project funded by the US Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to visualize the C programming language more effectively. In 1992, he received the National Computer Graphics Association's annual award for contributions to industry. He was the keynote speaker for ACM/SIGGRAPH-80, and the organizer and chair of the opening plenary panel for ACM/SIGCHI-99. Mr. Marcus has written over 150 articles; written/co-written five books, including (with Ron Baecker) Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs (1990), Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces (1992), and The Cross-GUI Handbook for Multiplatform User Interface Design (1994) all published by Addison-Wesley; contributed chapters/case studies to seven books of user-interface design, information appliances, and culture, including three industry Handbooks; and serves on the editorial/advisory boards of five industry publications, including Interactions and User Experience. For the last decade, Mr. Marcus has turned his attention to Web, mobile, and vehicle user-interface and information-visualization design, training leaders for centers of excellence, providing guidelines for globalization/localization, and focusing on the challenges of "baby faces" (small displays for consumer information appliances) of ubiquitous devices and cross-cultural communication. Mr. Marcus has published, lectured, tutored, and consulted internationally for more than 30 years and has been an invited keynote/plenary speaker at conferences of ACM/SIGCHI, ACMSIGGRAPH, Usability Professionals Association (UPA), and the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society, as well as conferences internationally. He is a visionary thinker, designer, and writer, well-respected in international professional communities associated with Web, user interface, human factors, graphic design, publishing, and desktop software application development.... [More]
Gabriel Martinez
Lecturer University of Salamanca
Gabriel Martínez Meave has a degree in Fine Arts specialising in Design and Media from the University of Salamanca. He is currently a lecturer in Design at the University of Salamanca and is Co-Director of a specialisation course in ‘Design for Companies’ at the Istituto Euopeo di Design. ... [More]
Meta Newhouse
| USA
Meta Newhouse, the former Creative Director at GroupBaronet (Dallas) has over 16 years of professional experience working in design. Her work has been featured in just about every design publication you can name. Last year she decided to quit her job, go back to school and get an MFA so she can teach creative problem solving to potential graphic designers. If you can’t find her in the classroom, she is probably out making film documentaries.... [More]
Lucas Nijs
Designer | Belgium
Lucas Nijs' workshops conceptualize the programmed notion of repeatability and repetition. In spite of its reticence, the disparity between cross-referencing and the arbitrary concise formulation of formal dissertation is naturally exacerbated by assimilation, defining a concise formulation of intense wrangling between the combined forces of rule-oriented thinking and Aunt Hillary as conceived by Hofstadter. In the latter respect design and language are particularly influential in placing theory on the agenda. Visualprogramming becomes effectively transformed into a babble of systems and statistics.... [More]
Örjan Nordling
Creative Director Pangea Design AB | Sweden
Örjan Nordling studied visual communication and typography at University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and the Post Graduate Program at Basel School of Design. For over twenty years he has been involved in graphic design projects like visual identities, typeface design and typography. Since 1997 he is founding partner and Creative Director in Stockholm based design firm Pangea Design working primarily in the field of visual identity and typography. His work includes the typeface Nordling BQ for Berthold, corporate typeface DN Bodoni and DN Grotesk for swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. In 2004 the Berling Nova typeface was released by the Swedish publisher Verbum, designed by Nordling designteam. ... [More]
Nadezda Pavlova
| Russia
Docent Nadezda Pavlova works at the Department of Communicative Design at The St. Petersburg Academy of Art and Design in Russia. She has written fifteen scientific publications about problems regarding Graphic Design and Type in Russia. She has also been a visiting teacher in the University of Lapland.... [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]
Yves Peters
| Belgium
Yves Peters is a [typo]graphic designer, writer about type, rock drummer and father of three. After a three-year stint as type expert/technical advisor at the Belgian FontShop franchise, he was hired by communication agency Making Magazines, now Magelaan.
Yves joined the Typophile community in 2002, where he currently is head moderator of the Type Identification Board. Besides reviewing typefaces for David John Earls’ Typographer.org, Yves edits Unzipped – his blog for FontShop Benelux – and makes occasional contributions to Typographica and The FontFeed. Together with Stephen Coles, he is responsible for cross-referencing the current edition of FontBook.
His talent for being able to identify most typefaces on sight is utterly useless in daily life.... [More]
Thomas Phinney
| 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]
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]
Hugo Puttaert
visionandfactory – integrated design | Belgium
Hugo Puttaert was born in Brussels in 1960. He studied art and worked as an artist before starting his own design studio, visionandfactory which was established in 1990. He is also responsible for the graduating projects in Sint Lucas Antwerp (the art department at the Karel de Grote-Hogeschool), where he teaches typography and graphic design. He also managed the Citype Conferences in Antwerp (1997,1999), and lectured in Antwerp, Rotterdam, Berlin, Lahti and writes articles for magazines and newspapers.... [More]
Carolyn Puzzovio
Principal Lecturer University of Lincoln, UK | UK
Carolyn Puzzovio is Principal Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, UK and has been involved in design education for over 25 years. Her background is as a practising graphic designer and her major interest within the subject has been lettering and type. This interest has developed further into alphabets other than our own Latin alphabet the Armenian in particular. ... [More]
Margaret Re
Associate Professor, Visual Arts Department University of Maryland, Baltimore County | USA
As a designer who has made letters that function within the realms of metal, photocomposition, and digital, Matthew Carter bridges a knowledge of technology that extends past historical divisions ensuring that the very real human needs for readability, legibility and expression are met. What may not be fully appreciated about Carter is that while he understands that technology is often literal, he does not let this shutout the abstract and theoretical from his working process. Carter’s typefaces reveal that creativity and functionality are best served by integrating lessons learned from past technologies and history intopresent technologies and by anticipating future needs.... [More]
Kai Rentola
Lecturer/Designer University of Art & Design | Finland
Kai Rentola has been a regular lecturer at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki since 1996. He has focused on teaching lettering and basics of typography at both the BA and MA levels. He also arranged the first digital font design courses in UIAH in 1994 - 1995. Rentola has produced several exhibitions about typographic design with his students. In recent years Rentola has practiced his own graphic design work by doing logotypes and graphic identities in Finland, where he has a small studio on Harakka Island just off the Helsinki coastline.... [More]
Nicola Robson
Nicola is currently working towards a PhD in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. Her research, which looks at information books for young children, forms part of the Typography for Children Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her background is in linguistics and communication studies.... [More]
Barry Roseman
Atlanta College of Art | USA
"Barry Roseman is a graduate of Occidental College and Art Center College of Design. He earned a Master’s Degree in Graphic Design from Yale University and studied at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Atlanta College of Art." ... [More]
Ivar Sakk
| Estonia
Ivar Sakk studied industrial design at Estonian Art Academy and has worked as a graphic designer since 1986. Beside his main activity in poster design, he is lecturer of history of graphic design in Estonian Art Academy in Tallinn... [More]
Christina Schultz
Designer | London and Germany
Christina Schultz works as a freelance designer in London and Berlin. Her current focus is on iconography and intelligent fonts. Recent projects include logo, corporate and web design. She graduated from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design with an MA in Communication Design in January 2005.... [More]
Deborah Shmerler
Assistant Professor / Graphis Designer The University of Tennessee, School of Art | USA
Deborah Shmerler received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. After Graduate school Deborah worked in Boston and concentrated on developing corporate identity systems, corporate branding initiatives and establishing a collaborative working environment between clients and designers. Deborah's academic career has included a full-time faculty position at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and currently a tenure-track position at The University of Tennessee where she teaches courses spanning the graduate and undergraduate curriculums. She believes in preparing students to become responsible citizens who use critical thinking and reflection to broaden their design perspectives.... [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]
Andreas Stötzner
Andreas Stötzner was born 1965 in Leipzig. He trained as a letterpress printer, studied Graphic Design in Leipzig and London, and since 1994 has worked independently. He has been teaching Typography and Lettering and researching and publishing about graphic signs and collections. In 2000, he established SIGNA, a signographic magazine. ... [More]
Adi Stern
Adi Stern Design | Israel
Adi Stern teaches Hebrew typography at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel. He is a graduate of the MA programme in Typeface Design at Reading University. Since 1994 he has run a Tel Aviv based studio, focusing on design for the cultural domain. Adi has won various awards including those of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation and the New York and Tokyo Type Directors Clubs.... [More]
Sumner Stone
Founder Stone Type Foundry Inc | USA
Sumner Stone is founder and sole proprietor of Stone Type Foundry, www.stonetypefoundry.com. His type designs include the recent linear designs Magma, Munc, and ITC Stone Humanist Sans. He is also an author and has taught typography and calligraphy at various institutions.... [More]
İpek Torun
Lecturer Anadolu University | Turkey
İpek Torun graduated from the Graphic Design Department at Bilkent University, FADA, in 1999. He received his MFA in 2003 from the Animation Department at Anadolu University, ISS, having completed his thesis on “German Expressionism’s Effects on Animation Through Historical Development and an Experimentation on the Subject”. He now works as an instructor in the Graphic Design Department in FFA, in Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey... [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]
Geraldine Wade
Typographer, Program Manager Microsoft Corp. | USA
Geraldine Wade is a Typographer/Program Manager in the ClearType and Advanced Reading Technologies group at Microsoft. She has a masters degree in Letterform Design and Typography from Central School of Art & Design in London. She previously worked at Monotype for 12 years as a senior type draughtsman. In 1990, while at Monotype, she was trained by Microsoft in TrueType hinting and was one of the lead type engineers for Windows 3.1 core fonts. Geraldine joined Microsoft in 1999. During this time she has worked on fonts for Windows 95, 98, and 2000 including Palatino Linotype, and the MS Reader. She has designed fonts for screen and print with John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks such as Sylfaen and more recently Nyala, which won a Type Design Award this year and in working with Microsoft Research produced a paper accepted at SIGGRAPH in 2000 titled “Example-based hinting of TrueType fonts” by D. Zongker, G. Wade, and D. Salesin. ... [More]
Sue Walker
Dean, Arts and Humanities University of Reading | UK
Sue is Professor of Typography and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Reading, and a partner in Text Matters, an information design consultancy based in the UK.... [More]
Simone Wolf
Typevents llp
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Masayuki Yamamoto
Associate Professor Tama Art University | Japan
Masayuki Yamamoto graduated in visual communication design from University of Tsukuba before studying typography at the University of Reading. He is now teaching Typography and Visual Communication design as an Associate Professor at the Department of Graphic Design, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan.... [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]
Alan Záruba
Alba Design Press LTd. | Czech Republic
Alan Záruba holds an MA in Typo/graphic studies from London School of Printing. He founded Alba studio Ltd. in 1996, now Alba Design Press Ltd. in Prague. In 1997 he started a collaboration with Prof. Zdenek Ziegler. With his colleagues and design historian Dr. Iva Janakova he co-founded the design magazine Deleatur and served as editor. Since 1998 he participates regularly in national design events, and has received many awards for design and typography. He is a member of the Czech Typodesignclub and ATypI since 2004.... [More]