Speaker Eric Q. Liu

Born in China and now based in Tokyo, Eric Q. Liu is a graphic designer focused on typography and linguistics. Eric is the editor of TypeisBeautiful.com, the first Chinese website on typography, and the executive producer and co-host of TypeChat—the very first podcast program on typography in Chinese—which was selected as “Best of 2015” by the iTunes Store in China. Eric is an Invited Expert of the W3C and is working on documenting requirements for Chinese Text Layout. His published translation works include “Just my Type” (2013), ”Western Types” (2014), “Western Types 2” (2015, by A. Kobayashi), and “Western Typesetting (2016, by M. Takaoka).