Letrástica 6

Sahar Afshar is an independent type designer and researcher based in London. She holds a PhD in Printing History from Birmingham City University and is part of the advisory boards of the Centre for Printing History and Culture in Birmingham and the Type Directors Club in New York. 

Viviana Monsalve is a Colombian graphic designer who graduated from the National University of Colombia, with postgraduate studies in Digital and Typographic Design at the University of Buenos Aires. After working in design studios in Colombia and Argentina, being part of communication teams in public and private companies, and teaching undergraduate typography courses, Monsalve now works as an independent graphic and type designer.

James Plattner is a type designer/letterer based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Collaborating with clients large and small, he utilizes the power of bespoke typography to distinguish brands from the competition.

James is the founder of Plattner Type, a foundry focused on expressive letterforms that sing instead of talking, and publishes in-progress type through Future Fonts.

Loche (Alejandro Lo Celso) was an art director for magazines and newspapers in Buenos Aires before graduating with honors from the MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, United Kingdom, and later from ANRT, the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, France. In 2001, Loche founded PampaType, the first Argentine type foundry and one of the pioneers in the region.

Ying Chang is a lettering artist whose practice is built from rhythm, repetition, and attention. Working with letters is her way of thinking and staying present, a principle she also brings into calligraphy, type, and design. Her work centers on endurance, process, and the ongoing negotiation between precision and imperfection.

A professor for more than 17 years at several Mexican universities, he was coordinator of the Specialization in Typographic Innovation at CENTRO, Design, Film and Television, where he currently teaches courses related to typography and type design.

Nina Stössinger (she/they) is the Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type, an independent typeface design firm in Brooklyn NY, and a Critic for typeface design at Yale School of Art. In addition to several award-winning retail typefaces (most recently, Cassis and Edgar, the latter designed together with Tobias Frere-Jones), Nina has designed or co-designed custom type for the New York City Football Club, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Microsoft, and SAS Institute, among others.