Speaker Maurice Meilleur

Maurice Meilleur is a recovering political theorist turned graphic designer and design researcher and writer. He completed his MFA in graphic design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. He’s an assistant professor of graphic design at Iowa State University, where he teaches typography, computational design, design ethics and theory.

He has contributed numerous type and book reviews to Typographica and Fonts in Use.

He’s writing books on constructed scripts and the work of Jurriaan Schrofer, and he’s presented his research at Robothon, ATypI, TypeCon, the Cooper Union, the Letterform Archive, and Automatic.

Maurice explores digital type and animation as part of a larger investigation into typographic representation and algorithmically-defined formal systems.