The Multilingual Typographers.

Peter BiÍak is a multidisciplinary designer based in the Netherlands. He is the founder of Typotheque, which specializes in type design, typography, and branding. He started Typotheque in 1999, Dot Biak Dot in 2000 (with Stuart Bailey), Indian Type Foundry in 2009, Works That Work magazine in 2012, and Fontstand in 2015. He is awriter for numerous design magazines and frequently contributes writing and design to books and publications that include Print, Emigre, Eye (magazine), Items, typographica, Idea (magazine), Abitare, and Page. He is a member of AGI, (Alliance Graphique Internationale.) and lectures on his work internationally. He has designed several fonts including FF Eureka (published by Fontshop) and Fedra (published by his own typefoundryTypotheque).

R. K. Joshi was a calligrapher, typographer, artist, type-designer, and professor at IDC (IIT Bombay). He had passionately contributed a lifetime of work towards Indian typography and type design. He had studied at the J.J. School of applied arts. He brought the concept of multilingual ad campaigns to India. The first ever such campaign was the Ashok Jain Campaign. He had created some stunning logos including the Welcome Group, and Punjab National Bank. He designed several advertisements for Nerolac Paints and Crompton Greaves using Indian calligraphy, designed exclusive menus for the Taj Group, and stationery for Chimanlals.In 1966, he designed the first known modern Indian fonts Mangal(Hindi) and Latha(Tamil). He was associated with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) since 1976. He held several exhibitions like Aakar in Delhi, Prathama in Mumbai, and Akshara in Germany. He also wrote poems and undertook the first-ever calligraphic research in Indian manuscripts and epigraphic writings. He was awarded by Bukva-raz, an International Award for his ‘Raghu’ font. He also received a Lifetime Achievement award from Ad Club, in2004.He was one ofthe featuredspeakers inICOGRADA,India in2008.

Dr. Rathna Ramanathan, principal of Minus9 Design is an Indian typographer based in London. She is an international graphic design practitioner and researcher known for her expertise in intercultural communication design and typography, and non-mainstream and experimental publishing practices. She has taught design and typography in India and worked as the Subject Leader for Design and Interaction at Central St Martins. She became the Head of the Programme for Visual Communication in January 2015, before taking up the post of Dean of the RCA's School of Communication from 2018 until December 2020. She also holds the Country Delegate position for India in the Association Typographique Internationale. She also created children’s and adults' picture books in collaboration with writers. Titles have included In the Land of Punctuation (2014) and Anything but a Grabooberry (2003), both published by Tara Books. For which she received several international design awards.

Pascal Zoghbi is a Lebanese designer and educator with a Master of Design in Type & Media from KABK. He founded 29LT digital type foundry in 2013. Building on a cross-cultural approach, he has developed an outstanding collection of contemporary multiscript typefaces. Having moved to Madrid in 2018, he expanded 29LT’s focus on Arabic and Latin scripts to embrace a global multiscript approach that taps into other world scripts. Zoghbi taught for ten years at various design schools in Lebanon and the UAE. Internationally renowned, he has received prestigious design awards, such as TDC, Granshan, and AIGA, and was nominated for Jameel Prize 3. He also co-authored and edited the “Arabic Graffiti”book.