TypeWknd reviewers live and work all around the world. Our 2020 Panel includes reviewers from each of the following regions: Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Europe, Central America, North America, South America, and the Middle East.
Reviewers carefully evaluate each proposal using a blind review process to determine if the application's content is a fit for this year's conference. Read more about our process on our FAQ page.
Adien Gunarta is a graphic designer and founder of Naraaksara.com from East Java, Indonesia, focusing on multilingual typography for minority languages.
Agyei Archer is a multidisciplinary designer from Trinidad, focusing on commercial work that integrates graphics, type design, and programming.
Alec Méndez is a Venezuelan creative director & journalist focused on creating new forms of digital conversations through design and words.
Alyissa is a graphic designer, a self-taught hand-lettering artist, admitted blerd, maker and occasional teacher living in Kansas City. @alyissaj on instagram
Aoife Mooney is a typo/graphic designer and teacher from Dublin, and an Associate Professor at Kent State University in Ohio, USA.
Bec Ralec is designer and founder of Pixel Colours, a design studio specialized in chic design elements and hand-drawn fonts. Instagram: @pixelcolourscom
Calvin Kwok is a type designer from Hong Kong. He joined Sharp Type in 2019.
Daniel Nisbet is a branding and typeface designer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dean Sweetnich is a Chicago-based graphic designer and lettering artist exploring the potential for modularity and gesture in type. He is currently a designer at Firebelly Design. @dsweeti
Dina Benbrahim is a human, creative and educator at University at Buffalo, SUNY, investigating design for civic action and social justice for marginalized communities to collectively reimagine equitable futures.
Elena is an independent typeface and logo designer from Germany.
Erica is a type designer. She graduated in 1998 from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Together with her partner she runs the foundry PintassilgoPrints.
Felix is a product, brand, and type designer based in Lagos, Nigeria. I craft delightful digital experiences and experiment with type and interactions on the side.
Frida Medrano is a Mexican designer currently working in San Francisco. She has worked on projects involving variable fonts and design automation, and has presented them at TypeLab, TypeCon, IxDA Mexico and TMX. Twitter: @fridaemg Instagram: @fridaemg
Goo-Ryong Kang is a graphic designer and design educator from Seoul, South Korea.
Gor Jihanian is an independent type designer and consultant, focusing on the development of Armenian typefaces for a global context. Instagram: @gor.jious Twitter: @gor_jious
Ili Moreno Guzman is an educator, connecting the fields of business, type and design. She tweets from Monterrey, Mexico.
Kourosh Beigpour is a professional font designer and graphic artist focusing on Perso-Arabic typography based on Los Angeles. Kourosh has an impressive portfolio that showcases his remarkable creative energy and signature designs. @kourosh_beigpour
Lloyd is a self-taught graphic designer based in Manila, Philippines. He is currently creating fonts for Baybayin, an ancient Filipino writing script regaining popularity nowadays. Instagram
Lukyan Turetsky was born in 1979 in Lviv, Ukraine. He studied graphic design at the Lviv State College of Decorative Arts and Crafts and in Lviv National Academy of Fine Arts. Engaged in graphic design and font development.
María Ramos is a type designer and researcher on typewriter type, co-founder of NM type. She is based in Galicia, the Atlantic side of Spain. www.marsidesino.com @marsidesino
Mia Cinelli is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky. Her creative practice explores the poetics and pragmatics of typography.
Dr. Nadine Chahine is an award-winning Lebanese type-designer. She has an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading and a PhD from Leiden University.
My name is Nicole Arnett Phillips; I love letters, layout and ink. My work sits at the intersection of design and language. I am a: book designer / typographer / printmaker / publisher / writer / editor. @typographHer & www.typographHer.com
Noopur Datye is a type designer and calligrapher from Mumbai, India. She is a co-founder of the collaborative foundry– Ek Type.
Sabrina is an independent type designer running her foundry, Type Senses, from Buenos Aires. She creates original typefaces by combining historical perspective, manual skills and digital wizardry. @typesenses
Tarun Deep Girdher is a graphic design educator at NID India. He has a loving bias for letterpress & type and is the co-founder of @35daysofgurmukhi.
Tom Cunningham is a type designer from Byron Bay Australia. His Foundry, "New Tropical" has sold over 30,000 fonts and counting. @newtropicalbyronbay
Zenab is the founder of Thinking letterforms lab, educator at Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology, an aspiring typeface designer, and Sign walker. #zenbast #sign_walker