Typography
Summer Twenty Four School

Alex Lin runs Studio Lin, a NYC-based graphic design practice established in 2012. They focus on long-term collaborations where graphic design can have a meaningful impact both locally and internationally. Many of their clients have engaged with art and design, so projects are often more collaborative than commissioned. Alex Lin holds an MFA from Yale.

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Laura Coombs is a designer in New York, working on visual identities and editorial projects with museums, artists, and architects. She teaches graphic design at Cooper Union, RISD, and Princeton University.

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Other Means designs dynamic typographic identities and brand strategies that excel in digital environments. They pull from various sources—including everyday visual vernaculars, user interfaces, and pop culture—to design idiosyncratic yet instantly recognizable visual languages that comment on contemporary culture.

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Fraser Muggeridge is director of Fraser Muggeridge studio, a graphic design studio based in London. Throughout a wide range of formats, from artists’ books and exhibition catalogues to posters and marketing material, the studio prioritises artists’ and writers’ content over the imposition of a signature style. By allowing images and texts to sustain their own intent and impact, each project is approached with an elegantly pared-down aesthetic, with colour, typography, paper stock and format playing a key role in arriving at a sympathetic yet subtly alluring object.

Fraser is professor of design at Leeds Beckett University and visiting professor at Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland

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Paul Barnes is a graphic designer specializing in the fields of lettering, typography, type design. He is a partner with Christian Schwartz in the internationally acclaimed type foundry, Commercial Type, with offices in New York and London.

He formed a long term collaboration with Peter Saville, which has resulted in such diverse work as identities for Givenchy, ‘Original Modern’ for Manchester, the England football team kit and the logo for Kate Moss. Barnes has also been an advisor and consultant on numerous publications, notably Wallpaper*, Harper’s Bazaar and frieze. Whilst consultant to The Guardian in 2005 he designed the Guardian set of typefaces with Christian Schwartz for the groundbreaking redesign of the newspaper.

Commercial Type is a type foundry creating custom typefaces for many clients, including the V&A, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The National Trust, Visa, Google, Puma and Rapha. With a team of collaborators they have released many retail fonts, including classics such as Graphik, Druk, Publico, Canela, Lyon and Austin. In 2019 they launched Commercial Classics, a sub-label reviving long forgotten faces from the past.

commercialtype.com

Simon Goode founded the London Centre for Book Arts in 2012 with partner Ira Yonemura, the first and only Centre dedicated to book arts in the United Kingdom. He studied Book Arts and Crafts at London College of Printing, where he was taught a practical and craft-based approach to book arts. He teaches book binding and printing, and is a Lecturer in Graphic Design Communication at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. He is co-author of Making Books: a guide to creating hand-crafted books by the London Centre for Book Arts (Pavilion Books, 2017) and a contributor to Books: Art, Craft and Community (Ludion, 2021).

londonbookarts.org

Seb McLauchlan is an independent designer based in London, specializing in the fields of graphic & type design. He has released Ginto, Marist and ROM through Dinamo type foundry. In addition to retail releases, he has created custom logos and typefaces for Alexander McQueen, The Royal Mint, Bottega Veneta, Goldwin Zero, Peter Do and Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery. From 2019–2022 he was a lecturer at Kingston School of Art, teaching the type design courses 1000 and 2000UPM.

sebmclauchlan.com

Fraser Muggeridge is director of Fraser Muggeridge studio, a graphic design studio based in London. Throughout a wide range of formats, from artists’ books and exhibition catalogues to posters and marketing material, the studio prioritises artists’ and writers’ content over the imposition of a signature style. By allowing images and texts to sustain their own intent and impact, each project is approached with an elegantly pared-down aesthetic, with colour, typography, paper stock and format playing a key role in arriving at a sympathetic yet subtly alluring object.

Fraser is professor of design at Leeds Beckett University and visiting professor at Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland

pleasedonotbend.co.uk

David Pearson specialises in print-based design where typography is the principle form of expression. He has been commissioned by Wes Anderson, Christie’s, Luca Guadagnino, Hermès, The New York Times, Penguin Books, Sir Ridley Scott and the V&A. David has been listed as one of Britain’s Top 50 Designers by The Guardian, is a member of the prestigious international association Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and in 2015 he was appointed Royal Designer for Industry, the highest accolade for designers in the UK. David is also founder of The Book Cover Review.

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Clare is a London-based designer, specialising in book design and art direction. She has worked in-house at Penguin Books and Random House, and also for the renowned British designer, Margaret Howell. She has worked independently since 2004, frequently collaborating with illus­trators, photog­raph­ers and stylists, producing cover and internal designs for a range of publishing clients.

In addition to her work as a designer, Clare is a visiting lecturer in Graphic and Communication Design at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, where she contributes to both the Foundation and BA courses.

clareskeats.co.uk