Display Type Design

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Marca by Jose Romero @romero__design MARCA is a display stencil typeface inspired by the ornate and handcrafted look of eighteenth century wine labels and street signage stencils. I wanted to challenge myself to create a serif and develop a workflow for designing type that worked for me. ✨✨✨ Jose Romero, a Houston based designer, believes collaboration and communication are key to creating successful design systems. Specializations include experiential design, project management, typography, and design strategy. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Lourane by Khiêm Nguyễn @nguyen.mjnk Lourane is an experimental typographic approach that investigates extremes of weight, width, terminals, and scale. Developing from calligraphic fundamentals, it incorporates curvature and rounded forms to build its own distinctive character. The result is a fun, wobbly, and unexpected typeface that works best at large display sizes. ✨✨✨ Khiêm is a Vietnamese graphic designer based between Hanoi and Bristol. He works with brands, publications, typography, and people. His practice is centralized around three pillars: typography - culture - technology, and he loves to explore how to incorporate these elements together. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Flicflac by Eunji Lee @ej.yi Flicflac is a typeface that blends geometry with the expressive qualities of handwriting. The project began with a curiosity about the visual tension that emerges when rigid forms encounter the character of handwritten brushstrokes. Flicflac is named after a French onomatopoeic term describing a movement of tapping and brushing. The name reflects the typeface’s formal qualities, where moments of precise contact intersect with the soft texture. ✨✨✨ Eunji Lee is a Seoul-based graphic designer and a member of the design studio Major Minority @majorminority_ . Her work focuses on typography across exhibition design, performance identities, and branding. She is currently exploring both Hangul and Latin typefaces, with a particular interest in the revival of historical letterforms through archival research. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Egredi by Alex Durlak @alexdurlak Egredi is an experimental, bold display typeface for headlines and titles that embodies its name: a Latin verb meaning “to step out”, “disembark” or “to go beyond”. It lives up to its promise with angular letterforms inspired by broad-nib pen strokes and refined through a geometric, grid-based modular system. Its structure is deliberate, yet subtle calligraphic gestures break through the rigidity. Each form, like its namesake, “deviates” and “ascends” from convention, resulting in a distinctively progressive, forward-leaning aesthetic. ✨✨✨ Alex Durlak is a Toronto-based artist, designer, and publisher with 20+ years working at the intersection of music, art, and publishing. He has art-directed 100+ album and artists’ book releases through his various imprints, developed identity systems for cultural projects and publishers, and collaborated with a range of creative clients. Alex foolishly operates his own print and bindery equipment and has presented work at international art book fairs and experimental music festivals from New York to Rio de Janeiro. He brings a hands-on understanding of both concept and craft to every project. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Dengo by Ícaro Fagali @fagulhis Dengo is a charming, high-contrast display sans based on expansion contrast. Still a work in progress, it became a turning point in my confidence as a type design student and lover of the craft. It was born from TypeCookers as an italic, but I chose to start with the upright to learn more carefully and without rushing. Its name came after my best friend’s wedding—almost like a romantic pet name—marking the moment I realized my love for type design. ✨✨✨ Ícaro Fagali is a type designer in training based in São Paulo, Brazil. He spent 2025 immersed in letters and in building a deeper understanding of the type design process, and is eager to continue learning and designing in the years ahead. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Tomiris by Yingxin Li @yingxinxinla Tomiris Serif is a modern typeface that integrates traditional Kazakh motifs (oyu) into its decorative flourishes. It serves as a cultural ambassador, blending geometric elegance with functional design for a global audience. ✨✨✨ Yingxin is a designer dedicated to using brand identity and typography to bridge connections and solve problems. While continuously honing her craft, she has developed brochures for the San Diego Symphony and created social media designs for Itoya Topdrawer. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Norma by Ian Chen @ianchen.8 Norma is a reverse-contrast, condensed sans-serif inspired by the visual language of city streets. Born from observing road markings and their subtle impact on urban environments, Norma combines softened counterspaces with smooth, fluid transitions to bring an expressive and human quality to something that’s usually very functional. ✨✨✨ Ian Chen is a designer in New York, making visuals and identities with culture, stories, and typography. Studied Visual Communication Design at the SAIC. Currently at Interbrand. Previously at Gretel, Red Antler, and FCB Chicago. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Geo by Sophie Cooper @typography.type Geo is a display typeface inspired by modernist architecture, especially Oscar Niemeyer’s bold geometric shapes and archways from a trip to Brazil. Designed for 3D printing, laser cutting, and screen printing, Geo features sculptural letterforms with strong geometric contrasts and simplified details. It’s part of ongoing research into Typography as Image, exploring how analogue, digital, machine learning and hybrid fabrication processes transform typographic form into image. Geo is a work in progress, with plans for diacritics and a variable version. ✨✨✨ Sophie Cooper is a designer, maker and educator based in Sydney, Australia. She is the creative force behind Scoops Design, a brand known for it’s sustainable jewellery focusing on bold colours, playful patterns, and destinctive design. Alongside her design practice, Sophie lectures in Visual Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Tremble by Alex Cheng @cheng.a.lex Tremble is a fraktur-inspired serif purposed to be a hazard to the eyes. It was birthed as a result of the question: How can I make something sharp enough to puncture the cornea? Maybe it still needs a whetstone and time. It’s existence serves as a seed to depict the idea of sharpness. Originally called “el gato,” inspired by cat claws, it aims to evoke trembling. First sketches were pretty unrefined and do not deserve the light of day. The version here today is early, and will be built out further soon! ✨✨✨ Alex Cheng is a graphic designer turned UX designer turned type designer, currently focused on more experimental approaches to typography. Type design satisfies an interest in detail and minutiae, as well as the pleasure of systematizing a cohesive set. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Suyeko by Sarah Auches @type.btch Suyeko is a sans serif, italic typeface that takes cues from handwriting. It aims to make text feel warm, soft, and digestible for readers. The project began with a collection of the designer’s grandmother’s handwritten post-its and recipe notes, whose casual forms retain traces of the cursive style she grew up writing. Through experimentation and refinement, Suyeko explores how memory, preservation, and semi-cursive gestures can inform contemporary type design without directly mimicking handwriting. ✨✨✨ Sarah Auches (they/them) is a graphic and typeface designer supporting work that builds accessible resources in collaboration with advocates, organizers, and local communities across New York City; Lenapehoking, the unceded homeland of the Lenape people. They are developing a practice as a type designer and hope to expand their skills and knowledge with a focus on supporting Indigenous languages and writing systems of North America. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Spring 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Jicara Display por Dainin Solis @daininsolis Jícara Display surge de la admiración por el arte del tallado en jícaras de filigrana de Rivas, Nicaragua, reflejando su belleza imperfecta y estilo expresivo. Esta tipografía irregular es ideal para titulares y textos cortos con carácter. El proceso incluyó investigación, bocetos a mano y una profunda exploración digital usando Glyphs, con múltiples iteraciones y ajustes. Aunque sigue en desarrollo, fue una experiencia de aprendizaje valiosa que despertó muchas ganas de seguir creciendo. ✨✨✨ Dainin Solis Collado es un diseñador y director de arte nicaragüense, impulsado por una amplia curiosidad hacia la experimentación y la creatividad en sus diversas expresiones, siempre en la búsqueda de nuevos retos creativos que le permitan aportar y generar un impacto positivo a través de la colaboración y el diseño. 💙 Cada viernes estaremos destacando dos proyectos de nuestra clase, y puedes ver toda la muestra en nuestro sitio web y en nuestro Instagram @displaytypedesign (enlace en la bio) ¡Muchas gracias a todes les estudiantes por su dedicación y creatividad! Agradecemos especialmente a nuestres instructores del Spring 2025, Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Sandra Morales @typeofshe También agradecemos a nuestras invitadas de hora de oficina Laura Garza @laorapico y Marcela Hernandez @mahrce , y a nuestras crítica invitadas Fer Cozzi @fercozzi_letras y Sandra García @wondertypa Y gracias a todas las personas que apoyan nuestro programa de becas. Su generosidad nos ayuda a abrir puertas para que más personas ingresen a la comunidad tipográfica.

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Spring 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Burda por Sebastian Nu @sebastian_nuu Burda es una tipografía robusta y honesta, de estética industrial y espíritu nostálgico, inspirada en la geometría de los pull tabs de latas de soda. Los glifos se construyen a partir de estas formas metálicas, conectando la intención gráfica con la conexión personal del autor y su colección. Como su primera tipografía desarrollada con intención, Burda asume la imperfección como parte del proceso y valora tanto el aprendizaje como el resultado final. ✨✨✨ Sebastian Nu es un diseñador gráfico e ilustrador boliviano, apasionado por el proceso creativo como ritual y por crear con propósito. 💙 Cada viernes estaremos destacando dos proyectos de nuestra clase, y puedes ver toda la muestra en nuestro sitio web y en nuestro Instagram @displaytypedesign (enlace en la bio) ¡Muchas gracias a todes les estudiantes por su dedicación y creatividad! Agradecemos especialmente a nuestres instructores del Spring 2025, Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Sandra Morales @typeofshe También agradecemos a nuestras invitadas de hora de oficina Laura Garza @laorapico y Marcela Hernandez @mahrce , y a nuestras crítica invitadas Fer Cozzi @fercozzi_letras y Sandra García @wondertypa Y gracias a todas las personas que apoyan nuestro programa de becas. Su generosidad nos ayuda a abrir puertas para que más personas ingresen a la comunidad tipográfica.