Speaker Mirko Velimirovic

Mirko Velimirovic is a lettering artist, type designer, and font engineer working in New York City. He is an adjunct faculty member teaching Typography and Type Design at CCNY and Baruch Cuny. Currently, he contributes work to SorkinType and open-source variable font projects on GitHub. From 2019 through January 2020, he was the chapter lead of Type Thursday NYC. Mirko has guest lectured in classes on type design at SVA and ECUAD. When he’s not doing calligraphy, he wrangles difficult software problems in FOSS and NDA font projects—the rest of the time he spends entertaining his two cats.