Speaker Pascale Schmid

Swiss/Australian Pascale Schmid is a type designer, doctoral candidate and sessional tutor at the Queensland College of Art in Brisbane. With her PhD project “V1—A user-centred type design approach to facilitate pilot information processing” Pascale is continuing her research into typography in flight safety for which she received Class 1 Honours in 2018. This directly corresponds with an understanding of typography as a far-reaching discipline that needs to be practised with care and consideration to reach beneath the surface. Additionally, she recently completed a project with Boeing and is currently working on an ebook series for aspiring flight attendants.