Speaker Jo De Baerdemaeker

Jo De Baerdemaeker is an independent Belgian typeface designer, font developer, and postdoctoral researcher. He holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Reading, UK. His interests are designing, researching, and writing about world script typefaces (particularly Tibetan, Lantsa, Mongolian, and Javanese) and multilingual typography. De Baerdemaeker is a regular speaker at international conferences and curates events and exhibitions centered on type and typography. In 2012, he founded Studio Type in Antwerp and currently teaches at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent. He is the author of “Tibetan Typeforms.”