Speaker Riccardo De Franceschi

Riccardo De Franceschi is a typeface designer from Italy. He is now based in London, where he works as creative director at Dalton Maag, a typeface design studio. After graduating from Politecnico di Milano, he obtained a master’s degree from the University of Reading. There, he investigated script typefaces of the 20th century, which he has been researching ever since. Franceschi has also written for two Italian publications—Bibiliologia and Tipoitalia.