Speaker Vera Evstafieva

“Vera Evstafieva is a type designer, calligrapher, and Cyrillic consultant based in Cambridge, UK. A graduate of the Moscow University of Printing Arts, she was the first Russian student at the Type and Media course at KABK in The Hague (2003–2004). Evstafieva’s type designs include Amalta, winner of TDC²2011; ALS Direct typeface for wayfinding, now the primary face for street navigation in Moscow; Cyrillic text styles for Literata, designed in collaboration with TypeTogether, commissioned for Google Play Books, and honored at Modern Cyrillic 2021; Lambic, for the Birra Flight project for Darden Studio, which took honors in the “Communication Arts” competition 2022; Rossica, Apriori, and others.

Evstafieva is passionate about exploring historical sources, both written and printed. In calligraphy and type design, she enjoys the properties of each media, experimenting with transparency, color, and intersections in the letters created with a flat brush, making an advantage of the one and only optimal shape of a letter in type, thoroughly balancing black and white. Evstafieva is the author of the articles for the TypeJournal, Forum journal, “Metamorphoses of Perception of Pre-Petrine Cyrillic” research for the Serebro Nabora conference. She has been a member of the juries for the Granshan, Typomania, and other contests.”