Type history will be written in real-time as we announce Ferdinand Ulrich as a keynote speaker at ATypI 2026 Stanford.
Ferdinand Ulrich is a typographer and researcher working and living in Berlin. He specializes in publication design and visual systems, his research focus circulates around type manufacturing in the twentieth century, with a particular interest in the discourse in early digital type design technologies. His dissertation on this subject earned him a PhD from the University of Reading in 2023. The following summer he was the Cary Research Fellow at Rochester Institute of Technology. Ferdinand currently holds a guest professorship at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and frequently writes for Eye Magazine.