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This is the personal website of Hannes Famira.
He is a type designer and educator, he mentors, teaches and assists nonprofits.
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
At the moment he teaches at the Cooper Union Typography Ⅱ and Experimental Typography. The classes he teaches at the Continuing Education department are
- Introduction to type design: Hand drawn type
- Introduction to Digital Type Design in FontLab Studio v.5
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>
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>
Link of the day
Art in Social Structures
An international NGO run by and funded by artists.
<www.artinsocialstructures.org>
<www.artinsocialstructures.org>
Ben Kiel
Fellow type designer at House.
<www.benkiel.com/>
<www.benkiel.com/>
Denis Pelli
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
New York University
<psych.nyu.edu/pelli/>
<psych.nyu.edu/pelli/>
Hoefler&Frere-Jones
Fantastic type
<typography.com>
<typography.com>
House Industrie
Type, clothing and furniture that kicks your grandmothers ass.
<houseindustries.com>
<houseindustries.com>
Humanique
Humanique is an internet bureau specialized in really complex web sites with a mission.
<humanique.nl>
<humanique.nl>
Letterror
Just and Erik in the Netherlands, they revolutionized the way we think about type and they make beautiful design.
<www.letterror.com>
<www.letterror.com>
MartinPlus
Under the motto "Design and typography for pixel and paper" Martin Wenzel, works in Berlin.
<www.martinplus.com>
<www.martinplus.com>
Mike Essl
Mike Essl is a Graphic Designer and was one of two original founders of the design firm The Chopping Block. He no longer works there and has since moved on to teach at The Cooper Union. He also does stuff for The Smoking Gun and a handful of other clients.
<mike.essl.com>
<mike.essl.com>
NewPixel
NewPixel is an award-winning multimedia firm with expertise in Flash development and broadcast design specialized in developing addictive interactive games, concept and implement eLearning environments, product demos and ad banners.
<www.newpixel.com>
<www.newpixel.com>
Senam Okudzeto
Senam Okudzeto is a transnational artist, writer and scholar, (Ghana/UK/USA).
<www.okudzeto.org>
<www.okudzeto.org>
TypeInvaders
Paul van der Laan in the Netherlands. He is principal of the TypeInvaders and teaches at the Type[Media class at the Royal Academy.
<www.typeinvaders.com>
<www.typeinvaders.com>
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