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<a href="https://juankafka.com">Juan Villanueva</a> (he/him) is a Peruvian typeface designer and educator in New York City. Juan is a Sr. Type Designer at Monotype. A graduate of the Type@Cooper Extended program, he has taught for institutions such as Type@Cooper, The City College of New York, and The Letterform Archive. Juan is also the founder of <a href="https://typecritcrew.com">Type Crit Crew</a>, an initiative to make type design education more accessible and inclusive.

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Juan Villanueva

Type Designer & Educator

Director & Co-Founder

<a href="https://www.tamarapilz.com/en/">Tamara Pilz</a> (she/her) works as an independent type and graphic designer in Vienna, Austria. After studying graphic and book design at the NDU in St. Pölten, she completed her master's degree in type design at the University of Reading, UK in 2018. She specialises in the design of high quality retail and custom typefaces, logos and branding, lettering, and layouts.

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Tamara Pilz

Type & Lettering Designer

<a href="http://www.instagram.com/davidjonwalker">David</a> (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Art in Graphic Design at Austin Peay State University and is currently pursuing a MFA in Graphic Design with a focus on letterform and typography at Yale School of Art. He is also principal of Rhealistic Design, a design consultancy that is active locally and nationally. He is a designer and lettering artist, who explores the relationship of type placed with images of people—and how this can sometimes be loving, at other times aggressive, etc. He will also share his process of exploring these relationships.

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David Jon Walker

Designer & Lettering Artist

<a href="https://mijumania.cargo.site/">Eugime Lee</a> (she/her) is a designer currently based in Malaysia. She graduated from the online cohort of Type West 2025. One of her recent achievements is being awarded at TDC Young Ones 2026 for her graduation typeface, Aether.

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Eugime Lee

Designer

<a href="https://www.jomalinis.com/">Jo Malinis</a> (she/her) is a graphic designer, type designer, and educator from the Philippines. She has worked with local and international businesses, start-ups, and organizations both with her previous studio, Plus63 Design Co., and individually as a freelancer. In 2022, Jo earned a postgraduate certificate from Type West at the Letterform Archive. Currently, Jo is an instructor at the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Fine Arts, teaching Visual Design Communication and Type Design. Jo founded <a href="http://type63.ph/">Type63</a>, an initiative that aims to serve as a platform to celebrate and showcase type design and typography by Filipinos.

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Jo Malinis

Graphic & Type Designer, Educator

<a href="https://ramongd.net/">Ramon Tejada</a> (he/him) is a DominicanYork (of Dominican-American, Afro-Caribbean, and LATINX descent) designer and educator based in Providence, RI. He works in a hybrid design/teaching practice focusing on collaboration, inclusion, unearthing, and the responsible expansion of design, a practice he has named “puncturing.” Ramon is an Associate Professor and Department Head in the Graphic Design Department at RISD.

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Ramon Tejada

Designer and Educator

<a href="https://www.thy-ha.com">Thy Hà</a> (she/her) is a Vietnamese UX/UI and type designer based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, whose work focuses on creating digital experiences and developing Vietnamese-localised typefaces. Her creative practice challenges traditional paradigms and defies Western-centric narratives by merging cultural identity, digital media, and typographic history into inclusive, context-rich designs. As a proud member of the Lưu Chữ and Counter Forms collectives and a Malee Scholarship 2021 finalist, Thy continues to push creative boundaries while celebrating her cultural heritage. Currently, she is exploring why Cooper Black has become a national phenomenon in Vietnam.

Thy Hà

Web & Type Designer

<a href="https://kateragostadesign.cargo.site/">Kate Ragosta</a> (she/her) is a designer, writer, and visual researcher who gravitates toward the tactile world of print. She brings together studies in typography, printmaking, and art history to create design work grounded in preservation and material culture. Kate is a graduate of Boston University’s Graphic Design program. Her work has earned recognition from GDUSA and Boston University’s Commonwealth Typography Award.

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Kate Ragosta

Graphic Designer

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/dashaen_09/">Rajan Kumar Singh (Dashaen)</a> (he/him) is a calligrapher and type design student from India. He’s currently studying in the ESAD Type Post-Diploma program at ESAD, Amiens, France, and is a Type West Online 2024 graduate from the Letterform Archive.
Dashaen’s work ranges from the old craft of calligraphy to the digital type design of modern times, exploring how the two connect and influence each other.
When he is not drawing letters, he is probably out walking in nature or hiking in the mountains.

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Dashaen

Calligrapher and Type Design Student at ESAD Type, Amiens 

Libbie Bischoff (she/her) is a California-based type designer. After graduating Type West in 2020, she opened her own type foundry, <a href="http://typedunord.com/">Type Du Nord</a>. She started by making 52 fonts in one year and is now focusing on building her type library.

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Libbie Bischoff

Type Designer

<a href="https://www.sadieredwing.com/">Sadie Red Wing</a> (she/her) is a Lakota/Dakota graphic designer and advocate from the Spirit Lake Nation. She received her Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University. Her research on cultural revitalization through design tools and strategies created a new demand for tribal competence in graphic design research. Red Wing urges Native American graphic designers to express visual sovereignty in their design work, as well as, encourages academia to include an indigenous perspective in design curriculum. Currently, Red Wing serves as an Assistant Professor at OCAD University (Toronto, ONT).

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Sadie Red Wing

Indigenous Graphic Designer & Educator

<a href="https://bozo.services">Tee Topor</a> (they/them) is a human collaborating with computers and communities. In their art practice, tee experiments with digital materialism and physical space through the combination of computer generated graphics, code, and digital fabrication. They are interested in creating multidimensional interactive experiences that spark conversations around the future of ecological and economic systems, mediated by the advancement, reconstruction and decolonization of technology. Currently, they are an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design and New York University where they teach classes on how to make art for the Internet and for virtual reality applications. They are also an active member within the Illuminator collective, who disrupt urban spaces by projecting large scale political messages of working class people. Additionally they are a studio member at LARPA, a Brooklyn based new media art organizing space. Most recently they co-organize <a href="https://dutyfreedesign.online/">Duty Free</a>, an aspiring worker owned design coop.

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Tee Topor

Artist and Designer 

<a href="https://www.emmachristinehall.com/">Emma Christine Hall</a> (she/her) is an award-winning designer and educator. She cofounded The Frontispiece in 2015 with Kevin Barrett Kane and currently serves as senior book designer at Zeitgeist, an imprint of Penguin Random House. She has designed books and brands for The University of California Press, Cynren Press, Amazon Publishing, and more. She teaches book design and advanced InDesign at Letterform Archive, Type Electives, Colorado Mesa University, and more.

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Emma Hall

Book Designer and Educator

Lauren Williams (she/her) is a Detroit-based designer, researcher, and educator. She works with visual and interactive media to understand, critique, and reimagine the ways social and economic systems distribute and exercise power.
Through her creative practice and research, she often investigates Blackness, identity, bodiliness, and social fictions to examine how racism is felt, embodied, and embedded into institutions. Themes of trust and the transformations enabled by social engagement shape both her approaches—collaboration, facilitation, collective production—and the questions she examines surrounding power and oppression, social relations, and social movements. Lauren has taught design + interdisciplinary studios and intensives at the College for Creative Studies, ArtCenter College of Design, CalArts and elsewhere. In the past, she has managed programs and policy aimed at cultivating economic justice at Prosperity Now in DC. Going forward, she's finding ways to align her capacities with revolutionary movements that build toward different socioeconomic systems entirely and usher in new dimensions of power and freedom altogether.
Her work can be found at <a href="http://www.williamslaurenm.com/">williamslaurenm.com</a>.

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Lauren Williams

Designer / Researcher

<a href="https://candicebotelho.me/">Candice</a> (she/her) is an art director, motion designer, and illustrator from Brasilia, Brazil, based in New York City. Her practice revolves around exploring brands’ microcosms through animation, typography, and 3D graphics, creating compelling visual systems within them. Since 2022, she has been working as an independent contractor with a variety of digital platforms and marketing agencies. Her work has been featured at the University of Edinburgh, Comic Con, and recognized by Working Not Working.

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Candice Botelho

Animator & Art Director

Pouya Ahmadi (he/him) is an Iranian-American designer, artist and educator. He is an Associate Professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Department of Graphic Design. His research explores the intertwined material and typographic manifestations of language and power through publishing, installations and lecture-performances. He is interested in the South West Asian articulation of and complicated relationship with modernity beyond its Western/Euro-American stricture. His practice explores notions of hybridity through projects that examine and materialize the sociopolitical and cultural conditioning of displaced bodies and the liminal states they traverse. He is interested in modes of production and dissemination that can engage and articulate layered and multivalent identities, both individual and collective.
Pouya is the founder of <a href="https://studio.pouyaahmadi.com/">Studio Pouya Ahmadi</a>, whose clients include Museum of Contemporary Arts of Chicago, Design Museum of Chicago, Experimental Film Society of Ireland, Neshan magazine, Sector 2337, Public Works gallery, Verge Books and Green Lantern Press, among many others. Additionally, Pouya edits and designs <a href="https://www.amalgam.online/">Amalgam</a>, an independent journal that explores the intersection of typography, language and power. He also served as a guest editor and editorial board member of Neshan magazine from 2009–20.
Pouya has presented at venues including Typographics, Adobe Live and TypeCon, and his work has been exhibited at the Moscow Global Biennale of Graphic Design, Dubai Design Week, AIGA Eye on Design, the Type Directors Club and East Sea International Art Biennale, among others.

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Pouya Ahmadi

Typographer and Educator

Designer, Artist and Educator

<a href="https://lynneyun.com">Lynne Yun</a> (she/her) is a Korean typeface designer and educator fluidly connecting the seams between calligraphy, type design, and generative typography. She is an alumna of the Type@Cooper Extended program, School for Poetic Computation, and ITP at New York University. She has previously taught for institutions such as Type@Cooper, Parsons School of Design, and The Letterform Archive. She currently runs <a href="https://spacetypeco.com">Space Type</a>, an NYC studio operating at the intersection of type and technology.

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Lynne Yun

Type Designer, Educator & Technologist

Co-Founder & Founding Director (2022–2025)

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/estefania_leyva/">Estefanía Leyva</a> (she/her) is a graphic designer, type designer and educator from Mexico City, specializing in editorial design, typography and type design. She's passionate about letterforms and explores how typography can enhance user experiences across diverse media. Always eager to learn and share her knowledge, she believes in the transformative power of education and the importance of cultivating a collaborative design community.

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Estefanía Leyva

<a href="https://soulellis.com/">Paul Soulellis</a> (he/him) is an American artist, graphic designer, publisher, and educator. He maintains his practice in Providence, Rhode Island. His work includes teaching, writing, and experimental publishing, with a focus on queer methodologies and network culture. His writings and work are cited in scholarly research, and his publications are collected and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. Soulellis is the founder of <a href="https://queer.archive.work/">Queer.Archive.Work</a>, a non-profit organization that joined Binch Press in 2021 to create a 2,000 sq. ft. library, print studio, and residency that supports a growing membership-based community of artists and writers. Binch/QAW has a mission to center Rhode Island-based queer and trans voices with access to space and resources for experimental publishing. Soulellis is also the founder of Library of the Printed Web, a physical archive devoted to web-to-print artists’ books, zines and other printout matter. The collection of 250 works was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art Library in New York in 2017.

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Paul Soulellis

Artist and Educator

James Plattner is a designer/artist currently based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati where he studied art and design, and studied type at Type@Cooper. He works in lettering, type, and branding.

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James Plattner

Designer & Artist

Antar Castro (he/him) is a Concept Designer working across thematic experiences. His work focuses on developing conceptual visualizations for theme parks, live shows, museums, retail environments, and other immersive projects.

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Antar Castro

Themed Entertainment Designer

<a href="https://www.kevinbarrettkane.com/">kbk</a> (he/him) is an award-winning designer and educator. He cofounded The Frontispiece in 2015 with Emma Christine Hall and currently serves as senior book designer at University of California Press. He has designed books and typography for Stanford University Press, Chronicle Books, Amazon Publishing, Dzanc Books, FG Press, John Wiley &#x26; Sons, and more. In 2020, he graduated from the Type West post-graduate Type Design Program at Letterform Archive where he designed Wordcooker with Nurullah Gokdogan. He teaches design practice, theory, and philosophy at Letterform Archive, Type Electives, Stanford University, the University of Colorado, and more.

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Kevin Barrett Kane

<a href="https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins/people/rathna-ramanathan-head-of-college">Rathna Ramanathan</a> (she/they) is a typographer, practice design researcher and academic known for her expertise in intercultural communication and alternative publishing practices. She is Head of Central Saint Martins, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of the Arts London and a Reader in Intercultural Communication. For the past thirty years, Rathna has led research-driven, intercultural, multi-platform graphic communication design projects primarily in the Global South, all fuelled by a love for, and life-long interest in typography and languages, and a belief in communication as a fundamental human right.

Rathna Ramanathan

Graphic Design, Educator and Researcher

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/omaima_dajani/">Omaima Dajani</a> (she/her) is a graphic and type designer specialized in the Arabic script. Her work is distinguished by a research-based and expertise in calligraphy, lettering, type design, typography, design teaching, and archiving. Omaima holds a BDes in Visual Communication specializing in graphic and typographic design, a Diploma in Art and Design Education, and a Master's in Type Design from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands. She has collaborated with leading type foundries and is the award-winning designer of the typeface "Lifta". Omaima is passionate about preserving and promoting Arabic design heritage, bridging the gap between traditional Arabic calligraphy and contemporary type design, and finding new solutions for emerging challenges.

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Freelance Graphic & Type Designer

Jamie Chang (he/him) Founder of <a href="https://www.manictype.com/">Manic Type</a>, Jamie Chang is a seasoned type designer and letterer based in Toronto, Canada. Jamie’s work delves into expressive typography, and its textural intricacies. A graduate of Type@Cooper and holding an MA TypeMedia from The Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. He now teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design. He has spent years working on his independent practice designing typefaces, and working for Canada Type and The Northern Block.

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Jamie Chang

<a href="https://corinneang.com/">Corinne Ang</a> (she/her) is a Filipino graphic and type designer currently based in Brooklyn. She works with publications, typefaces &#x26; lettering, visual identity systems and web design. Her personal practice investigates graphic form as a shared space for communities, memories and multiplicity.

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Corinne Ang

Type Designer & Graphic Designer

Fabiola Mejía (she/her) is an independent type designer from Costa Rica. In 2017, she completed the Type@Cooper Condensed Program in NYC, and in 2019, she received an MA in Typeface Design from TypeMedia, in The Netherlands. Besides working remotely with Dinamo Typefaces, she recently founded <a href="https://supercontinente.com">SUPERCONTINENTE</a>, a platform dedicated to her type design practice and collaborative graphic explorations.

Fabiola Mejía

<a href="https://beatrizl.com/">Beatriz</a> (she/her) is a designer, typographer, and educator exploring how technology can push typography to exist at the intersection of the physical and digital world. She teaches interaction design at Parsons and was formerly a design director at Sunday Afternoon.
Originally on the path to becoming a mechanical engineer, Beatriz shifted to graphic design as her involvement in immigrant rights activism exposed her to the power of visual communication. Her work has been recognized by the ADC, TDC, Communication arts, and PRINT. Some of her clients include ESPN, Target, and NPR.

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Beatriz Lozano

Designer, Typographer, and Educator

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/typeofshe/">Sandra Morales</a> (she/her) is a Mexican type and graphic designer with a strong interest in history and linguistic diversity. Her passion for letterforms took her to Argentina, where she pursued a Master's in Typography at the University of Buenos Aires. Her graduation project, Malinali, was recognized with the 2024 Gerard Unger Scholarship Merit Award by TypeTogether. In 2021, Sandra was the recipient of The Malee Scholarship, a grant funded by Sharp Type to support women from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups who show a strong commitment to a career in type design. Sandra is also a member of Alphabettes and Times New Woman, communities that promote exchange, support, and visibility for women in disciplines related lettering, calligraphy, and type design.

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Sandra Morales

Type & Graphic Designer

Francine Zhou (she/her) is a graphic &#x26; type designer, lettering artist and coder based in NYC and Shanghai. Through printed and web design, calligraphy and type, her practice reflects on the subtle relationships between human memory and urban landscape. She holds a BFA in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design and is studying in the Type@Cooper 25–26 Extended Program.
Currently, she is drawing letters as a designer at Noble Signs and the New York Sign Museum.

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Francine Zhou

Graphic & Type Designer, Lettering Artist

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/theilonabrand/">Ilona</a> (they/them) is an artist, extrovert, teacher and technologist who sees their work as love notes to themself, the world, and others. They work across mediums using music, poetry, code, drawing, and their jewish practice as tools of expression both publicly and privately. These days they are particularly interested in trans narratives of liberation, judaism as a site of ritual, visibility on and offline, and how we present ourselves and our work to the world.

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Ilona Brand

Artist & Technologist

Silas Munro (he/they) is a designer, artist, writer, and curator. He is the founder of the LGBTQ+ and minority-owned graphic design studio <a href="https://www.polymode.studio/">Polymode</a> based in Los Angeles and Raleigh that works with clients across cultural spheres. Commissions and collaborations include: The New York Times Magazine, MIT Press, Nike, Airbnb, the Brooklyn Museum, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago, Dia Art Foundation, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Munro is the curator and author of Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest which opened at Letterform Archive in 2022–2023. He was a contributor to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America and co-authored the first BIPOC-centered design history course, Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in GraphicDesign 19–21st Century. Munro is faculty co-chair for the MFA Program in graphic design at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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Silas Munro

Artist, Poet, Graphic Designer, Writer, & Educator

<a href="http://www.penghuijan.com/">Klio Peng</a> (she/they) is an independent type designer from Taiwan. She completed Mojijuku 文字塾, a one-year Japanese Typeface Design Program instructed by Torinoumi Osamu in Tokyo in 2020, and the Type@Cooper Extended Program in 2023. Klio has been working remotely with Sharp Type since 2021. She enjoys practicing single-stroke sign paintings, drawing Chinese, Japanese, and Latin typefaces, and starting her mornings with meditation, and taking care of plants.

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Klio Peng

<a href="https://brightpolkadot.com/">Kelly Walters</a> (she/her) is an artist + designer + educator + researcher and the founder of Bright Polka Dot. Her practice includes teaching, writing and experimental publishing, with a particular focus on race and representation in design. Her ongoing design research interrogates the complexities of identity formation, systems of value and the shared vernacular in and around black visual culture. Kelly has worked as a designer for SFMOMA, the RISD Museum, Alexander Isley, Inc. Designers and Blue State. In 2015, she completed her MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She was awarded an Association of Independent Colleges of Art &#x26; Design (AICAD) Teaching Fellowship in the Graphic Design program at California College of the Arts from 2015-2016. She has previously taught at the University of Bridgeport, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Connecticut and Central Saint Martins. She is currently the Director of the BFA Communication Design program and a tenured Associate Professor of Communication Design in Parsons School of Design at The New School.

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Kelly Walters

Artist, Designer, Educator, and Researcher

Analú María López (Huachichil/Xi'úi) (she/her) is the Ayer librarian and assistant curator of American Indian and Indigenous studies at the Newberry Library. She helps steward the Indigenous studies collection while guiding library users through, connecting them with, and interpreting materials linked to the Indigenous studies collection. She is interested in the preservation, revitalization, and instruction of Indigenous languages, decolonial theory (within libraries), and intentional community collaborations for access to materials within colonial institutions.
She has published articles on Indigenous Librarianship, Archival theory, languages, and active learning with primary source materials, and other topics. She has led hundreds of hands-on instructional sessions with rare books and other primary sources and co-curated exhibitions at the Newberry: “What is the Midwest?” in 2018 and “Indigenous Chicago,” in 2024 which she is also the co-Director of the “<a href="https://indigenous-chicago.org/">Indigenous Chicago</a>” project, a multifaceted project exploring these histories, centering Indigenous voices, laying bare stories of settler-colonial harm, and gesturing toward Indigenous futures.
She holds a Master of Library and information sciences with a certificate in archives and cultural heritage resources and services from Dominican University and a Bachelor of Arts in photography with a minor in Latin American studies from Columbia College Chicago. She began her career with the Newberry in 2004. After working for other libraries and museums in Chicago for thirteen years, she returned to the library in her current role in September 2017.

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Analú María López

Librarian, Curator and Writer

<a href="http://www.ginaroi.com/info">Gina</a> (she/her) is a passionate storyteller with 10 years of experience working in branding throughout New York City. Her love for illustrating with type only grew stronger while working on the Brand Studio team at The Public Theater with creative director Paula Scher. She specializes in lettering, motion graphics, and typographic systems for cultural institutions, startups, and the food and beverage industry as an independent designer and art director.

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Gina Roi

Art Director & Designer

<a href="https://munusshih.com">Munus Shih</a> (he/they) is a Taiwanese Hakka designer, coder, organizer based in NYC, passionate about bringing more critical and diverse perspectives to teaching code. Munus was a fellow for the Processing Foundation, where they contributed to open source projects and helped develop decolonial teaching resources. As an organizer, Munus co-founded <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sponact.xyz">SpOnAcT</a>!, a collective and garden for gender and neuro queers in Taiwan. They’re also a part of NEW INC in the group <a href="https://dutyfreedesign.online/">Duty free</a>, a design collective that explores the liminal space of art, code and solidarity economy.

Munus Shih

Creative Technologist, Designer & Educator

<a href="https://www.keltroughtonstudio.com/">Kel Troughton</a> (he/him) is a type designer, lettering artist, graffiti writer, and educator, living in Oakland CA. Kel was a co-curator of the exhibition “Subscription to Mischief” at Letterform Archive, showcasing the 1990s graffiti community and the independent publishing that documented it. He started writing graffiti in 2000 and has continued to add letter-based interests ever since. He studied Type design at Type@Cooper West, worked at Monotype, and currently works on freelance type and lettering projects. His company <a href="https://overlaptype.com/">Overlap Type</a> focuses on type design that utilizes ideas from his graffiti experience. In short, Kel is a letter person.

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Kel Troughton

Schessa Garbutt (they/them) is a Belizean-American creative polymath and founder of <a href="https://www.firebrand.house/">Firebrand Creative</a> House based in Inglewood, CA. Their design practice focuses on brand identity and UI/UX design for social impact initiatives and mission-driven organizations. Garbutt is also an essayist (recently in The Black Experience in Design anthology) and lecturer, speaking on diversifying design history and co-design practices at universities and organizations such as IDEO, SF Design Week, MICA, Where are the Black Designers, and Adobe's Wireframe podcast. Garbutt holds a B.A. in Design from the University of Southern California, and a certificate in Type Design from Type West.

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Schessa Garbutt

Designer & Afrofuturist

<a href="https://www.behance.net/TamaraSegura">Tamara Segura</a> (she/her) is a Mexican type designer and letterer. She studied a one-year program in Type Design at Centro University, and continued her education at Type@Cooper Condensed 2021, as well as Type West 2021. She has worked as a graphic, branding and packaging designer at different agencies, while working independently as a type designer and letterer. Active in the type community as part of Times New Woman and Letrástica staff.

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Tamara Segura

<a href="https://www.instagram.com/genramirez">Gen Ramírez</a> (he/him) is a typeface designer, graphic designer, calligrapher and sign-painter from Guadalajara, Mexico. His strong interest and passion for brushes and letterforms developed since a young age as he was taught mastery of sign-painting in his father’s workshop. It later led him to graduate from TypeMedia at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague as well as completing both Type@Cooper Extended program in San Francisco and Condensed in New York. He teaches calligraphy, sign-painting, and type design workshops and leads Letrastica Festival, a conference in Guadalajara. With strong roots in an organic approach to letterforms, his work focuses on embracing both the analog and digital dimensions of design. He loves adding a dash of code in there to spice things up too!

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Gen Ramírez

Typeface Designer, Graphic Designer, Calligrapher, and Sign-Painter

<a href="https://www.lalizlabeth.com/">Elizabeth</a> is a design educator and product designer with a decade of experience. She is currently building an alternative design school starting with the course The Art of Visual Design. Previously, she has worked at companies like Khan Academy, Primer, and LinkedIn.

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Elizabeth Lin

Product Designer & Educator

<a href="https://naimabenayedbureau.com/">Naïma Ben Ayed</a> (she/her) grew up in Provence (FR) in a French and Tunisian family. Defining spaces in between identities and attempting to translate them into design forms and ideas is a lifelong obsession. She holds a Master in “création typographique” from Estienne school (Paris). She has an independent practice based in London (UK) where Arabic and Latin type design and visual communication sit at the same desk. Her approach to design is telling stories with letters. Beyond leading type workshops, she engages in the question of opening up type design pedagogy in creative ways such as <a href="https://futuress.org/stories/letters-words-stories/">an imaginary multi script type design program published on Futuress</a>. Naïma collaborates with Francesca Bolognini under the name La Bureau, together they make Arabic and Latin typefaces.

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Naïma Ben Ayed

<a href="https://niktari.com/">Nikki Makagiansar</a> (she/her) is a designer, coder, and educator based in New York City who creates type-driven identity systems and websites. Central to her practice is exploring code as a design and art-making tool. Nikki also teaches at Parsons School of Design and Cooper Union. Previously, she was a designer at Pentagram, where she helped develop data-driven and algorithmic identities. Nikki is a co-founder of <a href="https://dutyfreedesign.online/">Duty Free</a>, a design collective that explores the possibilities between art, code, and the solidarity economies. Currently, Duty Free is a member of NEW INC, an art and technology incubator led by the New Museum.

Nikki Makagiansar

Designer, Coder & Educator

<a href="https://www.mdholakia.com/">Meghna Dholakia</a> (she/her) is a designer and artist fascinated by individual, collective, and geologic narratives of transformation. She is interested in how communities come together, commune, and collapse. Currently, she is a designer at The New York Times helping people think more clearly about how to work together.

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Meghna Dholakia

David Barnett (b. 1986) (he/him) is a graphic artist and preservationist from New York City. As a creative director, he has worked in design, illustration, apparel, publishing, branding, and signage.
In 2013, he co-founded his own studio called <a href="https://www.noblesigns.com/">Noble Signs</a>, specializing in branding and signage rooted in New York vernacular lettering traditions. As an extension of this mission, in 2019 he created the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nysignmuseum/">New York Sign Museum</a>, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to preserving 20th century advertising from the New York metro area.
He is a graduate of the Type@Cooper Extended Program, and a recipient of the TDC Ascenders award. His work has been profiled in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Gothamist, artnet, WNYC, Hyperallergic, ABC News, NBC New York, NHK, and more.

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David Barnett

Creative Director of Noble Signs / Founder of the New York Sign Museum

<a href="https://kyeh.me">Kevin</a> (he/him) is a partner at <a href="https://spacetypeco.com">Space Type</a>, a Brooklyn based type studio that operates at the intersection of type, design, and technology. Kevin has a background in computer vision, graphics and robotic learning, and holds an MS in computer science and film studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He also works at Nava PBC, where he partners with government agencies to build simple and reliable public digital services.

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