TypographySummerSchool2025

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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Luiza Dale, Laura Tolomelli, and Tuan Quoc Pham work on commissions for graphic design and beyond as The Aliens. Luiza lives in Richmond, and Laura and Tuan live in New York. Recent projects include the Spring/Summer 2024 exhibition identities for ICA Philadelphia in collaboration with Other Means, chapbooks for Spiral Editions, and yaelmalka.com for photographer Yael Malka.

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Laura Coombs is a graphic designer in New York creating 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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Michael Kelly is a graphic designer in London. He worked at Fraser Muggeridge studio from 2019 to 2024, and continues to collaborate with Fraser on specific projects. Michael also works with a range of other London-based studios on projects in the cultural sector, and with his own clients designing books, identities and exhibition graphics. He is a Lecturer in Graphic Design at University of Brighton.

Seb McLauchlan is an independent designer based in London, specialising in graphic and type design. He designed the retail typefaces Ginto, Marist, and ROM, which were released in partnership with Dinamo type foundry. He is also a member of the antipodean type collective Counter Forms. Seb has created custom logos and typefaces for Alexander McQueen, Amiri, Bottega Veneta, BOYY Bangkok, Christie’s Auction House, H&M, Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery and Nanushka. He has lectured and taught at Kingston School of Art, Central Saint Martins, Massey University, RMIT University, and Yale School of Art, and has given workshops as part of Typography Summer School and Tāmaki Type Club.

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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 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.

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