Speaker Carl Shura

Carl Shura (he/him) is a Canadian visual designer with experience focused on identity and brand management, wayfinding and exhibits, and type design. A graduate of the graphic design program at Winnipeg’s Red River College, he has also completed the post-graduate type design program at The Cooper Union and a summer residency at the SVA TypeLab in New York. 

Carl is a member of faculty at the SCHOOLOFDESIGN at George Brown College in Toronto where he lectures on design, typography, communication, and print production; he also runs a small digital foundry at deptofletters.ca where some of his type design work is available. 

He is a member of TDC (the Type Director’s Club), RGD (the Association of Registered Graphic Designers), RHSC (the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada), and is the Canadian Delegate for ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale).