Speaker Roman Wilhelm

Roman studied for a typeface design master class under Fred Smeijers at Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts. From 2007 to 2013, he was a member of the Multilingual Typography Research Group at Zurich University of the Arts, led by Ruedi Baur. Roman is currently responsible for the typography lab at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and works as an information designer at the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin). His first Chinese font “Laowai Sung” was nominated for the Tokyo TDC awards 2013.

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