Speaker Ulrika Hellberg

Ulrika Hellberg (b. 1979, Sweden) has a background in fine arts and worked as an art director at fashion agencies in Stockholm and Milan before founding Malmsten Hellberg with Stefania Malmsten in 2013. Malmsten Hellberg is an award-winning graphic design studio with a strong focus on typographical solutions. Ulrika regularly teaches about design systems and type at Beckmans College of Design and at other schools and institutions. Ulrika’s first typeface Grez will be released later this year with the foundry Letters from Sweden. The ambition to create a typeface that captures the essence of something handmade in a new way is something she has been occupied with for a long time, and got the opportunity to explore during a residency grant in a small French village.