Typography Summer School 2026About

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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Geoff Han has worked as an independent graphic designer and educator in the cultural field for over twenty years. His practice has been built on longstanding collaborations with organizations including common room, New Art Dealers Alliance, PIN–UP, Ran Dian, Session Press, and SO–IL. Han has taught at schools including ÉCAL University of Art and Design Lausanne, Estonian Academy of Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Werkplaats Typografie, and Yale University.

Julian Bittiner is an independent graphic designer based in New York, originally from Geneva, Switzerland. Working predominantly in the art and culture sectors, he works closely with artists, curators, architects, galleries, and institutions on a variety of projects across media. Commissions have come from Jonathan Berger, Sam Contis, Anoka Faruqee, Logan Grider, Mary Reid Kelley, Michael Stipe, MOS Architects, Aperture, Adams and Ollman gallery, Art Papers, the Center for Comparative Media at Columbia University, NYU Steinhardt, 80WSE gallery, the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the Yale School of Art, and the Yale School of Architecture.

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Michael Bierut is a graphic designer whose career spans nearly five decades. After beginning his career with Lella and Massimo Vignelli, he became a partner at Pentagram in 1990, where his clients have included Mastercard, Slack, Verizon, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and MIT Media Lab. Bierut has received the AIGA Medal and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, and has taught at the Yale School of Management and Yale School of Art, where he initiated the widely adopted “100 Days Project.”

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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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.

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Europa is a London-based graphic design studio known for its thoughtful, context-led approach. Founded in 2007 by Mia Frostner and Robert Sollis after graduating from the Royal College of Art, the studio creates work across graphic identities, publications, exhibition graphics, signage and web design, often for clients in the public and cultural sectors. Europa has a particular interest in architecture, urbanism and the role that graphic design can play in a place’s identity. The studio also contributes to design education, and has taught and lectured internationally.

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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).

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Michael Kelly is a designer working largely with artists and cultural institutions. He works independently and partners with various London studios on specific projects. He is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton and has spoken at Leeds, Falmouth and Cambridge universities and at the Dai Nippon Printing Foundation in Tokyo. Michael was a member of Fraser Muggeridge studio from 2019 until 2024, where he held the position of Senior Designer.

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James Langdon is a designer, writer, and educator. His PhD, from RMIT University in Melbourne, concerns isomorphism — unreasonable fidelity! — in graphic design. In 2025 his text portraying the studio OK-RM was published in the monograph ‘A Meaningful Order,’ he co-curated an exhibition of the same name at Maximillian William gallery in London, and his self-published book ‘typohypergraphicobject’ formed the basis of a solo exhibition at Na Kim’s Berlin project space, LOOM. From 2008 to 2018 he was a founding director and designer of the artist-run multiverse Eastside Projects in Birmingham. From 2017 to 2023 he was professor at HfG Karlsruhe. His writing on subjects in and around art and design has been published in journals including Bricks from the Kiln, The Bulletins of the Serving Library, Revue Faire, Fillip, and in the anthologies of writing on design education ‘One and Many Mirrors’ (Occasional Papers, 2020) and ‘Extra-Curricular’ (Onomatopee, 2018).

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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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David Pearson is a print-based graphic designer. He has been commissioned by Wes Anderson, Christie’s, Ferrari, 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. He is also founder of The Book Cover Review.

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Clare has worked as a book designer since her junior role at Penguin Books in the late 1990s. In the years that followed, she became an independent designer, producing and art directing covers and interiors for a range of publishers. Clare is now based at Thames & Hudson where she oversees the design of books on Photography, Architecture, Design, and Fashion. She is also an experienced educator, having taught Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins for well over a decade.

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