Currently works in New Zealand as a graphic designer and part-time lecturer. Received a BA Graphic Design from Middlesex University, London, 1987 and a MA Art & Design from AUT University, Auckland, 2008. Also responsible for 100types.com.

Co-founder of deValence design studio formed in 2001 (with Alexandre Dimos). It is located in Mains d’Oeuvres, a former industrial building now inhabited by artists, in Saint-Ouen, near Paris. DeValence works for artists (Agnes Thurnauer, Matthieu Laurette, Thomas Hirschhorn), museums and art centers (Le Centre Pompidou, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers), and luxury brands (Martélouise, Kenzo). Alexandre and Étienne went to Valence Fine Art School and École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.

Born in Russia, she graduated from Ryazan Art School and later from Moscow State University of Printing. She specializes in type design and works currently for ParaType. Gayaneh has designed cyrillic version of on Fedra Sans, Fedra Serif, and Fedra Sans Condensed, and Greta fonts.

Born York, UK, 1973. Studied graphic design, Reading, UK, 1991-95. Part of the first group of participants at the Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, NL, 1998-2000. Dot Dot Dot magazine editing with Peter Biľakfrom 2000. Currently leading double life between New York and L.A. Also currently a failed musician.

Partner in the New York office of Pentagram, and former president of AIGA (1998-2001) Writes frequently about design and is a contributing editor to I.D. magazine, co-editor of Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design and Tibor Kalman: Perverse optimist. Michael Bierut lectures widely and is a visiting critic at the Yale School of Art, New Haven. He is the co-editor of Design Observer.

Studied at the Technical University Košice to become an Electrotechnical engineer. After years working for a mobile phone operator, he left to hint fonts on a freelance basis for Ascender Corporation. Five years of working with Tom Rickner taught Ivo valuable lessons, and now provides TrueType hinting on a highest level for Typotheque and other type foundries.

Johanna (born Balušíková) is a partner in Typotheque. She has lived in The Netherlands since 1999, and works in the field of graphic and type design with a focus on cultural work (www.johanna.sk). Johanna studied at the Jan van Eyck Akademie (1999-2001), Maastricht; Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (1998-1999), Paris; Ecole des Beaux-arts de Saint-Etienne (1997-1998), France; and Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (1992-1998). In 2004 she has co-curated an exhibition entitled Experiment And Typography focusing on the last twenty years of typography development in Czech and Slovak Republics.

Born in Czechoslovakia, lives in the Netherlands. Works in the field of editorial, graphic, and type design, teaches part time at the Royal Academy in The Hague. Started Typotheque in 1999, Dot Dot Dot in 2000, and Indian Type Foundry in 2009. Besides fonts at Typotheque he has also designed fonts for FontShop International (e.g. FF Eureka). Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).

Design director at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he provides creative leadership for the design department’s projects and programming. A frequent contributor to design publications and academic journals, Blauvelt writes about the history and theory of graphic design from a wider social and cultural perspective. He has taught in the graduate program at North Carolina State University, School of Design.

Irma Boom (1960) is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer specializing in book design.

She worked for five years at the Dutch Government Publishing and Printing Office in The Hague. In 1991 she founded Irma Boom Office, which works nationally and internationally in both the cultural and commercial sectors for clients such as Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Ferrari, Vitra International, NAi Publishers, United Nations and OMA/Rem Koolhaas.

Since 1992 Boom has been a critic at Yale University in the USA and gives lectures and workshops worldwide. She taught at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht from 1998-2000. She has been the recipient of many awards for her book designs and was the youngest-ever laureate to receive the prestigious Gutenberg prize for her body of work.

American-born poet, book designer, typographer, historian and linguist who writes about native issues and typography. His manual The Elements of Typographic Style has become one of the most influential texts on typographic design. He received the Macmillan Prize for Poetry in 1975. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Independent design writer and critic. His critical writings have featured regularly in major Dutch art and design journals and in a range of international design publications. Before he took over from founding editor Rick Poynor at Eye magazine (1997-1999), Bruinsma was editor of the Dutch design magazine Items, published several books on (graphic and new media) design in the Netherlands, and taught at the Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam.

Typographer & typeface designer and a writer on modern typographic history. He worked at Monotype Typography, before studying for a PhD in Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading (United Kingdom), which he obtained in 1995. From 1996 to 2001 he taught at the University of Reading, where he planned and conceived the MA in typeface design.

Spanish writers and designers associated to Barcelona-based Grrr magazine.

Graphic designer and writer. She graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Design, in Ljubljana and has worked as a consultant for a diverse range of clients. She has received a Typographic Excellence Award from the Type Directors Club of New York. Her articles were published in Eye, emzin, Typo, art.si, Hyphen, Klik and many other publications. She is the AtypI's country delegate for Slovenia and the founding member of the Brumen Foundation (Ljubljana). In 2004, she was awarded PhD at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading (UK), where she currently works on a research project 'The optimism of modernity' with Paul Stiff.

Born 1904 in Richmond, Virginia, USA, died 1991 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; type designer, book designer, illlustrator. Studied with Rudolf Koch in Offenbach, Germany as a punch cutter and type designer. Chappell produced much work with the publisher Alfred A. Knopf and was also illustrator and typography consultant. His typefaces Lydian (1938–46) and Trajanus (1940) are published now with Linotype.

Started Lines & Splines, a typographic diary, which became instantly known amongst the online type community. In 2002, he replaced it with New Series, offered more rigourous, extended articles on type design and typography. Both websites are offline by now.

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Art historian. Writes regularly on graphic design and published a number of books and articles on relationship of design and architecture. Author of Le Corbusier. Un architecte et ses livres (Lars Müller Publishers, 2005), and Vers une architecture du livre, (Lars Müller Publishers, 2007)

Co-founder of deValence design studio formed in 2001 (with Gaël Étienne). It is located in Mains d’Oeuvres, a former industrial building now inhabited by artists, in Saint-Ouen, near Paris. DeValence works for artists (Agnes Thurnauer, Matthieu Laurette, Thomas Hirschhorn), museums and art centers (Le Centre Pompidou, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers), and luxury brands (Martélouise, Kenzo). Alexandre and Étienne went to Valence Fine Art School and École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.

Nikola Djurek was born in Croatia, studied in Croatia, Italy and finally in The Netherlands at postgraduate master course Type and Media at Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, he earned his PhD degree in the graphic and type-design field. Nikola is founder of Typonine studio for graphic and type design, and teaches at Art Academy - DVK, University of Split and University of Zagreb, Faculty of Design.

Self-trained designer. He has taught graphic design at the Central St. Martins School of Art; the University of East London; the University of Texas at Austin, the School of Art at Yale University, New Haven. He is a contributor to FUSE, an electronic type publication. Founder of www.otherschools.com. Recent work involves collaboration with groups and individuals, including product and graphic designers, engineers, architects and the cycling activists Critical Mass. Paul Elliman has a regular column in IDEA magazine, contributes to Eye, dot dot dot, and Tate Etc.

Founder, editor and designer of Open Manifesto. Over the past 13 years Kevin has worked as a designer at a number of leading design studios in Dublin, (Ireland), Wellington (New Zealand), and Sydney. Following this, Kevin spent seven years as Joint Creative Director at Saatchi Design, Sydney. He has won numerous awards, including a D&AD Silver in Typography and a Judges Choice award from the Type Directors Club. He currently lives in Kununurra (a remote town in north Western Australia) and is principle of Finn Creative.

Writer and design critic based in New York. He is a contributing editor for Metropolis magazine and research fellow for the Design Institute at the University of Minnesota, where he edits the online conference review, Knowledge Circuit. He also teaches a seminar on design theory at Yale School of Art’s MFA graphic design program. He has written widely about design in its various forms, from TV graphics and neon lights to bridges and spaceships for publications including Architecture, Creative Review, The Guardian and The New York Times. He wrote and co-edited the books Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist and Sagmeister: Made You Look and co-authored Pause: 59 Minutes of Motion Graphics.

Born in 1967 in Athens, studied graphic design in Polytechnic College in Athens and then acquired Master of Arts (Graphic Fine Arts) from the University of Kent in England. He is specialised in type and multimedia design, and has designed websites and CD-Roms for large cultural institutions and museums. Together with Γιάννη Κουρούδη he started Cannibal (www.fonts.gr) in 1995. Panos worked cosely with Typotheque on the Greek versions of Fedra Sans and Fedra Serif.

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is partner with William Drenttel in a design consultancy in Northwest Connecticut (USA) named Winterhouse Studio. They concentrate on editorial design and new media, as well as publishing under their imprint, Winterhouse Editions with University of Chicago Press and Princeton Architectural Press. Helfand is the author of Six (+2) Essays on Design and New Media; Paul Rand: American Modernist; Screen: Essays on Graphic Design, New Media, and Visual Culture<; and Reinventing the Wheel. She is a Senior Critic in graphic design at Yale University School of Art, and the co-editor of Design Observer.

Art director of the New York Times Book Review and founder and co-chair of the School of Visual Arts, New York MFA/Design Program. He is the former editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design and author or editor of over 80 books on popular culture, graphic design history, and political art. His most recent books include The Graphic Design Reader, Allworth Press, The Education of a Design Designer, Allworth Press, and Counter Culture: The Allure of Mini-Mannequins, Princeton Architectural Press. His forthcoming books include: From Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Progressive Magazine Design of the 20th Century, Phaidon Press, Cuba Style: Graphics From the Golden Age of Design, Princeton Architectural Press, and Graphic Humor: The Art of Graphic Wit, Allworth Press.

Is a graphic designer and typographer working in St Gallen, East Switzerland. Brought up in the orthodoxy of modernist ‘Swiss typography’, his work shows a gradual diversification away from that single-track approach. This book is a fruit of thirty years of experience in the field in which he has come to specialize: book design.

Prague based curator, and writer. In 2003 she has organized a restrospective exhibition of Ladislav Sutnar that has travelled to Zurich and Rotterdam. She is one of the founders of Deleatur magazine, and currently works at the Prague's museum of the decorative arts.

Ondrej Jób (1984) was born in Czechoslovakia, studied in Slovakia, Denmark and The Netherlands at TypeMedia master course at Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. His works have been published in various publications in Europe and US. Ondrej is active in the field of graphic and type design and prefers culture-oriented or experimental projects. Ondrej is also designer of the Typotheque new (2010) website. www.urtd.net

After studies at the École Estienne, the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (where she now teaches) and the Atelier national de création typographique, she became an independent graphic designer and typographer. She is also working towards her Ph.D. on the subject of the history of graphic and typographic design at the Sorbonne. She writes regularly on the subject of typography and type design. Roxane Jubert is based in Paris.

Lieke Kempen is a former snowboard instructor. While working in the Austrian Alps, she started knitting hats for friends in the evenings. We liked them so much that we asked Lieke to make a small edition for Typotheque.

is a London-based writer and curator with an interest in graphic design. She wrote an MA thesis on film title sequences and a PhD on typeface design of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Recent projects include the book Restart: New Systems of Graphic Design and the British Council exhibition The Book Corner. She is design editor of Frieze magazine. In 2009, she was the curator of Quick, quick, slow exhibition at the Experimenta, in Lisbon.

Typographer, editor and writer. He has contributed regularly to magazines such as Information Design Journal, Blueprint, Journal of Design History, and Eye. In 1980 he started the publishing imprint Hyphen Press with a new edition of Norman Potter’s What is a designer. Hyphen Press now publishes a range of titles on typography and design, recently The Stroke (2005), the theory of writing by Gerrit Noordzij, and the second edition of Modern Typography (2004).

Max Kisman (1953) is a Dutch graphic design and illustrator. In the mid 1980s he pioneered digital technology and created first post stamp for PTT on the computer. In 1986, he co-founded TYP/Typografisch Papier on typography and art. Between 1984 and 1988, he taught graphic design and typography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, College of Arts and Crafts in Utrecht, and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. From 1992-1997 he was chief graphic designer for VPRO television in the Netherlands. In 1994 he became involved in interactive media for VPRO-digital and in 1997 moved to San Francisco to work for Wired Television. He now lives in Amsterdam and running his own studio.

Andrej Kratky was born in Czechoslovakia, studied in Prague (now Czech republic) and USA. After starting his career as a graphic designer he co-founded the CD-Creative advertising agency in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Jürg Lehni, born 1978, Luzern, Switzerland, studied at ETH Zurich (1998-1999), HyperWerk, Basel (1999-2001), Écal, Lausanne (2001-2004). He currently lives and works in London. Working collaboratively across different fields, his work often deals with the notion of tools, the potential of industrial processes and human adaptation to technology. This interest has lead to projects in various fields, a partnership with the Swiss type foundry Lineto.com, a research residency at Sony's SET Laboratory, Tokyo (2006), and a series of exhibitions, including: A Recent History of Writing and Drawing, ICA, London (2008); Things to Say, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2009), Things in the Air, Bell Park, Kriens, Switzerland (2009), Empty Words, Swiss Institute, New York (2009).

Design Fellow at the University of Minnesota Design Institute where she manages its graphic design, website and publication projects. With her partner Santiago Piedrafita, she also runs TWO, a small design studio which produces print and digital media for clients mainly in the non-profit and cultural sectors. Deb taught interactive media, motion graphics and graphic design for several years at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She received her MFA in 1994 from California Institute of the Arts.

Graphic and typographic designer born in 1970 Córdoba, Argentina. In 2000 he completed his MA in type design at the University of Reading, UK, and in 2001 he continued his research at the ANRT, Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, Nancy, France. He currently is a professor at the information design courses (graduate & postgraduate levels) at the University of the Americas Puebla, Mexico. Alejandro is the director of PampaType.

Author and book historian; works as associate curator at the Special Collections department of the Amsterdam University Library. Mathieu regularly publishes on 19th and 20th century book typography and type design. He is also editor of the scholarly magazine Quærendo and contributor to the design magazine Items. His most recent book Bram de Does: letterontwerper & typograaf / typographer & type designer was published in 2003 by the publisher De Buitenkant.

Writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the MFA program in graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. She also is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, where she has organized numerous exhibitions. Together with J. Abbott Miller she founded Design Writing Research in 1985 as an after-hours studio where we could collaborate on experimental projects that merge theory and practice, writing and designing.

Born in 1960, type designer since the mid-1980s. Around 1990 he designed the award-winning typeface family Scala and Scala Sans. In 1994 Majoor designed the telephone directory for the Dutch telecommunications company KPN. He also designed two complete new typefaces for it, Telefont List and Telefont Text, which are still in use today. He works as a book typographer and type designer in both Arnhem and Warsaw.

Karel Martens (1939) is a Dutch graphic designer and teacher. His body of work spans over 50 years. His work ranges from post stamps, books, architectural interventions to free artistic work. In 1996 he was awarded the Dr. H.A. Heineken Award.

He taught at the Art Academy in Arnhem, Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (1994-1999), From 1997 he has been a visiting lecturer in the graphic design department at the School of Art, Yale University. In 1997 he started Werkplaats Typografie, a post-graduate graphic design school in Arnhem, where he still teaches.

Dutch writer, typographer and designer. Middendorp started writing on theatre and performance arts, and later specialized on type design. He is the founding editor of FontShop Benelux Druk magazine, and author of acclaimed bookDutch Type.He currently lives in Berlin.

Ross Milne was born in Canada where he studied graphic design at Emily Carr University in Vancouver. Upon graduation he pursued the Type & Media postgraduate Master course at the KABK in the Hague. He is a founding member of the design studio Working Format (Vancouver) which specializes in a diverse body of work that includes type design, signage, identity and printed matter. He currently teaches type design at Emily Carr University.

Teacher, type designer and typographer born in 1931 in Rotterdam. From 1960-1990 he taught type design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Noordzij also designed a number of books for Van Oorschot publishers, and wrote Letterletter, The Stroke of the Pen, De Staart van de Kat and De Handen van de Zeven Zusters which became instantly internationally recognized.

Type and information designer, born in Busto Arsizio in 1976, he lives, teaches, reads, writes, studies and works between Busto Arsizio, Urbino, Milan, Bari and Moscow.

Design critic and writer. He founded Eye magazine,the international review of graphic communication, and edited it from 1990 to 1997. He has written on design and the visual arts for Blueprint, Frieze, I.D., Graphis, and other magazines. He lectures widely in Europe and the United States and is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London. His books include Typography Now: The Next Wave, Design Without Boundaries, Typographica, and Obey the Giant.

Satya is co-founder of the The Indian Type Foundry (ITF) in Ahmedabad, India. He studied at the National Institute of Design (NID) in India and interned with Linotype in Germany. He has also worked at Dalton Maag and L2M3 . He now works full time at ITF, creating original fonts in all the major Indian scripts along with their Latin companions.

Lives and works on the shore of the lake of Geneva, close to Lausanne. Graphic designer, typographer, and type designer. In addition to his design work, Mr. Rappo teaches at the Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne.

American graphic designer living in Germany, where he studies at the HfG Offenbach and works at Linotype. He has received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Dan is running his blog TypeOff

Partner in 2x4, a multidisciplinary design studio in New York. From 1985-1991 he was adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently an associate professor at the Yale School of Art. He is contributing editor and design critic for I.D. magazine.

Designed fonts for GarageFonts. He studied design and advertising at Sint Lucas in Boxtel and type design and typography at the Postgratuate course Type & Media at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Recently he has started his Cake Type foundry.

Born in Austria. After having worked at M&Co. in New York and at the Hong Kong office of the advertising agency Leo Burnett, he formed the New York–based Sagmeister Inc. in 1993. He has designed graphics and packaging for mainly cultural clients. In 2001, Booth-Clibborn published a book on Stefan Sagmeister’s work Sagmeister: Made you Look. He is now involved with the nonprofit group Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities with the single goal to cut 15 percent of the Pentagon budget and redirect it to health care and education.

Italian graphic designer, partner of studio Alizarina, where she works mainly on editorial projects. She teaches at the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, wrote two books on Italian graphic and type design, and contributes regularly to Progetto Grafico magazine.

is currently pursuing his M.F.A. in Graphic Design at the Yale University School of Art. He publishes ante, a quarterly journal of art and design, and is a contributor to The Morning News. Recent design projects include The Yale Review (with Chip Kidd), and album covers for Brooklyn bands 3001 and the American Trampoline Company.

Dutch type designer, born in Eindhoven, in 1961. He specializes in typographic research and development for product manufacturers. Among his typeface designs are FF Quadraat, Renard, DTL Nobel, Arnhem, Fresco, and Sansa. The last three are available from OurType, the font publishing label that he established with together with FontShop Benelux. Fred Smeijers is the author of Counterpunch and Type Now published by Hyphen Press, London.

Was born in Beirut in 1965. Author of Arabic Typography: a comprehensive sourcebook (Saqi Books, London, 2001), Experimental Arabic Type (Saatchi & Saatchi, Dubai, 2002), Typographic Matchmaking (BIS Publishers, Amsterdam 2007), and a number of articles on multilingual communication in the Middle East. She holds degrees in graphic design from Yale University School of Art and Rhode Island School of Design, and specialises in bilingual typographic research and design. She has worked as a designer for a number of years, in the us, Amsterdam, France and Beirut. She has taught typography and graphic design at the American University of Beirut. She was the Chair of the Visual Communication Department for three years at the American University in Dubai and founder of the Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography (Amsterdam). She is currently pursuing a PhD at Leiden University while still teaching in Dubai.

Art Director of Taschen 1993–97; founder and Director of International Design UK 1998–2004; Director of International Design Publishing 2003–; Art Director of Collins 2003–. Winner of D&AD Silver Award 1997 for most outstanding complete book (Starck) and British Book Design and Production Awards in 2002 and 2003. Mark lives in London.

Currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand working as a graphic designer, a lecturer and sometimes a writer and curator. He received an MFA in graphic design from Yale University in 2002, a BFA from the University of Canterbury (NZ) in 1993. Co-editor of the graphic design journal The National Grid.

Graduated from the Royal Academy for Fine and Applied Arts in The Hague. After working at Meta Design Berlin, and FontBureau, he started working seperately together with Just van Rossum under the name LettError. His work now includes type design, illustration, and programming. He is a key developer of the RoboFab, scripting environment for FontLab with van Rossum and Tal Leming. He lectures extensively.

Rudy VanderLans is the co-founder of the magazine and type foundry Emigre, together with his wife Zuzana Licko. VanderLans studied at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague; after working inthe Netherlands for several years, he moved to California and studied photography at U.C. Berkeley. In 1984, VanderLans founded Emigre Magazine, a journal for experimental graphic design.

Currently based in Lyttelton, a small port town on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island, Luke works as a freelance graphic designer, lecturer, and musician. Luke graduated from University of Canterbury’s School of Fine Arts (NZ) in 1997, and completed a Masters in Design at RMIT (Melbourne) in 2006. An interest in practitioner-oriented writing and independent publishing evolved from his postgraduate research, motivating and informing the foundation of The National Grid project. Luke is co-editor of The National Grid with Jonty Valentine. Under various pseudonyms Luke spends too much time playing guitar in local surf band The Damned Evangelist.

Catherine Zask (1961) is a French graphic artist and designer. She graduated from the ESAG (Paris) in 1984. Started her career in 1985 as an independent designer, works with cultural institutions and private-enterprises. In 1993 she was a resident at the Academie de France in Rome (Villa Medici) where she created Alfabetempo, a weird typeface. Zask has won several awards, including the Grand Prix of the 20th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno in 2002. She is a member of the AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale.
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Before getting his M.A. at the LCP, London, Alan Záruba studied architecture in Prague. He now runs his Prague-based studio Alba, organizes Graphic design Biennale in Brno, and teaches part time at the Academy in Prague. Alan was one of the founders of Deleatur magazine, and writes for Czech design periodicals.