Type designerBasel, Switzerland10 years in practice
Mailtom@example.com
Phone+41 55 555 07 31
Foundrygleisdruck.example.com
StudioRebgasse 14, Basel
Profile01
I design and produce typefaces in Basel. Over 10 years I have released 14 retail families through my foundry Gleisdruck and drawn custom fonts for 2 transit systems, both still in daily use on platforms and vehicles. I teach type design one day a week and spend a good part of the rest arguing with the lowercase g.
Experience02
2019Now
Founder, Type Designer
Gleisdruck Type Foundry · Basel
Released 11 retail families, 96 styles total; licensed to 1,400+ studios and publishers in 38 countries.
Drew Traversa, an 18-style wayfinding sans for the Rheintal regional transit network: 214 stations, 6 languages, tested at 40 m reading distance.
Delivered a 4-weight custom family for the Aare city tram system in 11 months, from brief to installed signage masters.
20162019
Senior Type Designer
Setzkasten GmbH · Zürich
Led drawing on 3 corporate families, including a 9,400-glyph pan-European text face covering Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.
Rebuilt the studio's mastering pipeline; per-family production time dropped from 6 weeks to 9 days.
20142016
Junior Designer, Lettering
Atelier Rotwand · Basel
Produced lettering and logotypes for 27 client projects; 3 grew into full custom typefaces.
Digitized 2 mid-century Swiss grotesks from original metal specimens for a museum archive.
Released Typefaces03 · Selection of 14
Traversa2024 · 18 styles
Basler Grotesk Neu2023 · 12 styles
Muni Text2022 · 8 styles
Kessel Mono2021 · 4 styles
Drahtseil2020 · 10 styles
Perron Display2019 · 6 styles
Teaching04
2020– Now
Lecturer, Type DesignHochschule für Gestaltung Nordwest · BA program, 24 students per year, weekly drawing seminar
2022
Summer intensive: Signage TypeTwo-week workshop, 16 participants, held twice since
Education05
2012– 2014
MA Type DesignHochschule für Gestaltung Nordwest · Basel
2008– 2012
BA Visual CommunicationFachhochschule Graubünden · Chur