A graduate of Moscow State University of Printing Arts, Gayaneh has designed Cyrillic localizations for most major type libraries, including Linotype, Bitstream, The Font Bureau, ITC, Berthold, Typotheque, Emigre, and ParaType. She began her type design career at ParaType in 1996 and founded Brownfox type studio in 2012. Her work has won awards from a number of international type design competitions, including Kyrillitsa’99, TDC² 2000, and Granshan 2013. Gayaneh is the mastermind behind Serebro Nabora, a prominent annual international type conference held in Russia.

Type designer with a love for programming and scripting. After studying graphical design at Sint Lucas in Ghent, where he got the passion for pure black & white type, he went to study typedesign at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague.
He successfully got a Master Degree at the postgraduate course Type & Media in 2006. His final project was not a typefamily but an application which studies the broadnip and pointed pen, called Kalliculator . The app could generate thousands of typefaces.
Frederik Berlaen works under the name of TypeMyType providing font services, programming and teaching at Sint Lucas Ghent and at ECAL in Lausanne.

Сodeveloper of Robofab and UFO. He is also working as a typedesigner, programmer and is lecturer at the TypeMedia course of the Royal Academy in The Hague.

Born in Zurich, lives and works in Berlin. He runs a design office, specialising in editorial design, communication design, visual identities and custom typefaces, operating internationally within a wide spectrum of the cultural domain. He is a member of the Swiss type foundry Lineto where he published Akkurat (2004) and Circular (2013). He teaches graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and has been guest critic at various leading art and design institutes including Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Werkplaats Typographie and ECAL, Lausanne. His work has been featured in numerous books and publications, including IDEA Magazine, Tokyo; AA Publications, London; Phaidon Press, London and The New York Times Magazine. He has been awarded twice with the Swiss Federal Design Award and received numerous distinctions from The Most Beautiful Swiss Books and The Best Dutch Book Designs.

Designer, art historian and collector. Author and designer of numerous publications for graphic designers and those who are simply interested in graphic arts — sixteen books and around one hundred articles. His bibliography includes Wallpaper* magazine’s Graphic Object of the Year (2006) and the best art book in the Russian contest Art of the Book (2010). The two-volume Typography in Terms and Images was named Book of the Year in Russia (2000). Carried out research for over ten years at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, where he took a post-graduate course. Worked as a research associate in the History and Theory of Design Department at the All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics; taught typography at the Stroganov Academy. Co-edited graphic design magazine Da! with Elena Chernevich. Occasionally lectured at art institutes in Amsterdam, The Hague, London and Hamburg. Has organised exhibitions in Moscow, Stavropol, Amsterdam and Madrid based on his own graphic collections. Lives and works in Moscow.

Jean-Baptiste Levée is a typeface designer from Paris, France. He runs the digital type foundry Production Type.
Levée has designed over a hundred typefaces for industry, moving pictures, fashion and publishing. He has shown work internationally in group and solo shows, and is featured in the permanent collections of the French national library (BnF) and the National Center of arts (Cnap); of the Newberry Library in Chicago, and several printing museums in Europe. Levée curates exhibitions on typeface design, organizes research symposiums and teaches typeface design at the Amiens school of Arts & Design, at the Caen-Cherbourg school of Arts & Media and at the University of Corte. He is a typography columnist and editor on Pointypo.com

Graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, where she attended type design workshop, completing her final type design project in 2006. She participated in Zapf Games, a student calligraphy contest, and in 2007 became a member of the judging committee. She has been working as a type designer and calligrapher at Art. Lebedev Studio since 2006 till 2011. She also teaches type design courses. Now Elena is working as a freelance typographer. She is one of Letterwork.ru participants.
Typefaces designed by Elena Novoselova: ALS Mirta, ALS Klementina, ALS Dereza, ALS Bingley, ALS Mezzo, ALS Heino, Bodoni Global.

Typeface designer at The Font Bureau, where he draws letters of all shapes and sizes for custom and retail typeface designs. He strives to build useful tools that challenge designers to confront the unique visual and technical demands of their text, ransacking forgotten and pigeonholed lettering styles and searching for new approaches to the same old alphabet.

Studied Graphic and Typographic Design at the Royal Academy for Fine and Applied Arts (KABK) in The Hague, The Netherlands. Van Rossum started to collaborate with Erik van Blokland under the name LetTeRror in Berlin, while working at MetaDesign, Erik Spiekermann’s design studio. After experimenting with computer programming in connection to type design, they came up with Beowolf, the first typeface with a mind of its own. It was released by FontShop in May, 1990. Some other typefaces by Van Rossum: Justlefthand, Instant Types and Advert. Currently, Van Rossum lives in Haarlem, working as an independent designer and programmer. He teaches type design and programming at KABK in The Hague.

Studied art and design at the Latvian Art Academy in Riga and at Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin, where she took a type design course with Luc(as) de Groot. She continued studying type and graduated at the TypeMedia master program in The Hague. Now she enjoys working at LucasFonts and can talk about type in English, German, Latvian as well as Russian.

Type designer and digital font development professional. In 1994, he co-founded Tiro Typeworks, a small foundry specialising in custom font solutions for multilingual computing and publishing. He has designed or collaborated on new typefaces for Arabic, Burmese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Javanese, Latin, Odia, Sinhalese, Telugu, Thai and other writing systems. Hudson was awarded a special prize for his contribution to Cyrillic typography and international typographic communication at the Kyrillitsa’99 competition.