UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State will host Hannes Famira, graphic designer, type designer and founding principal of Famira Fonts, at 4 p.m. on Oct. 16 in the Stuckeman Family Jury Space. He is one of the recipients of the Stuckeman School’s 2024-25 Interdisciplinary Design Professorship.

During the lecture titled “Hannes Famira Typeface Designer,” which is co-hosted by the Department of Graphic Design, Famira will speak about his practice, exhibit his work and touch on concepts and principles that shape his design decisions.

Famira founded Famira Fonts, a New York City-based firm that specializes in custom digital typefaces, in 2000. He is an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art since and has previously taught at the School for Design in Basel (Switzerland), The School of Visual Arts in New York, the former University of the Arts in Philadelphia, New Jersey City University and the City University of New York, as well as at a university in Germany.

Famira studied graphic and typographic design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the Hague in the Netherlands. He held an apprenticeship at Studio Dumbar and the Font Bureau, and followed that with positions at Meta Design, the Buro Petr van Blokland and House Industries.

Before starting Famira Fonts, Famira started his own design studio, Das Kombinat, in 1999 and in 2001, he started the Kombinat-Typefounders, a Dutch-Swiss foundry.

Hamira’s talk is free and open to the public.