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  • Sandoll logo
    Sandoll is a type foundry in Korea, founded in 1984 by Geumho Seok. As a representative type foundry in Korea, Sandoll seeks to ‘build fonts, for the beautiful world’. The foundry’s activities range from custom fonts for corporate’s branding to retail fonts for printing and digital devices. The foundry has a variety of experiences of multi-language projects such as CJK development and Korean-Latin matching. Also, Sandoll launched SandollCloud service in 2014. Designer Yejin Wi and Suhyun Lee designed Korean version of Greta Sans through the collaboration with Typotheque.
  • 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.
  • Ana Sanikidze is a typographer and type designer based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She graduated from the Reading University Type Design master’s program in 2021. Ana is a member of Georgian Calligraphers’ Association. She is teaching typography at the Visual Communications course, at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs and offers Georgian calligraphy and lettering workshops.
  • Hansje van Halem

    Dutch graphic designer Hansje van Halem (1978) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and started her own studio in Amsterdam in 2003. She creates alphabets, textures and patterns, both digitally and manually, that she applies to designs for posters, illustrations and public space art works such as gates and floors.

    Watch a short documentary about Hansje van Halem.

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    Sascha Lobe is a graphic designer working at the intersection of architecture and graphic design, he joined Pentagram as a partner in June 2018.
  • 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.
  • Seulki Kim is a type designer at Sandoll based in Seoul, South Korea. She is in charge of retail font production at Sandoll, and has produced Sandoll November, Sandoll CT Sans, Sandoll Heuksong and Sandoll Comp Sans. Also, Seulki has participated as a speaker at ATypI Paris in 2023.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Christopher Burke is a typographer, typeface designer, and design historian. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, UK. He has designed four typefaces (Celeste, Celeste Sans, Pragma and Parable) and written two books about major figures in typography of the twentieth century: Paul Renner: the art of typography (1998) and Active literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography (2007). He co-edited Isotype: design and contexts, 1925–1971 (2013), and History of the Monotype Corporation (2014).