Speaker Mark Jamra

Mark Jamra is a type designer and former professor of graphic design, who has designed and produced typefaces for 40 years. He is the founder of TypeCulture, an online type foundry and academic resource, and is a founding partner of JamraPatel, a studio creating innovative type systems with multiple scripts for use in under-supported language communities in North America, Africa and Central Asia. Mark has taught letterform and type design at colleges and in workshops in the U.S. and Germany. His typefaces have received recognition from the TDC and the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI). He served on the ATypI board for 6 years.