This is the personal website of Hannes Famira.
He is a type designer and educator, he mentors, teaches and assists nonprofits.

Hannes devides his time between teaching and designing type. Two days a week he works as a type designer for House Industries at their cozy studio in Delaware. The design work for the Kombinat-Typefounders happens in his study at home in Brooklyn, NY during long nights and short weekends.

At the moment he teaches at the Cooper Union Typography Ⅱ and Experimental Typography. The classes he teaches at the Continuing Education department are

1. Introduction to type design: Hand drawn type - roman letterforms
2. Introduction to type design: Hand drawn type - italic letterforms
3. Introduction to Digital Type Design in FontLab Studio v.5

Read more about the continuing education classes...

Hannes Famira is principal of the Kombinat-Typefounders.com, a small typefoundry based in Brooklyn, NY. At the moment the website of the Kombinat-Typefounders is moving to a new server and a dynamic backend and is off-line. The masterplan is to go back live with a bang offering a bunch of fresh, new typefaces and a reworked retail library. Lots of work left to be done there... <www.Kombinat-Typefounders.com> TypEdu.org provides a general forum and resource to students of Hannes Famira's type design classes. You should be able to find any kind of type-related information there specifically in reference to Hannes' teaching and current classes. The new site is redesigned with a dynamic contents management system in the back and has lots of new information and pictures. <www.TypEdu.org>

Also check out the TypEdu Blog. Hannes serves on the advisary board and as webmaster for Art in Soial Structures, a non-profit NGO that aims to bring about the understanding that art is a basic building block in forming social structures. AISS and its members believe that the role of art is fundamental to all civil societies.
Its projects include providing university scholarships, funding for small businesses and organizing cultural and educational exchange programs. <www. artinsocialstructures.org> For links to friends and collaborators visit the exits page...