Speaker Borna Izadpanah

Borna is a typeface designer and researcher based in London. He holds an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading and an MA in Graphic Design from the London College of Communication. He is the designer of award-winning typefaces Lida and Lalezar, and more recently, Markazi Text which he co-designed together with Fiona Ross and Florian Runge.

He is currently undertaking PhD research at the University of Reading. This research project is supervised by Gerry Leonidas and Fiona Ross and funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under the auspices of the Design Star Doctoral Training Centre.