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Ramiro Espinoza was born in Santa Fe, Argentina and studied graphic design at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina. After graduation, he taught typography at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and worked as an in-house designer at El Litoral and La Nación newspapers.
In 2003, he moved to the Netherlands to study type design at the Type and Media course in The Hague. He later studied type design at the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp. In 2007, he launched Retype to market his typefaces. He has contributed to design magazines and has done extensive research into vernacular Dutch lettering. In 2015, he published the book The Curly Letter of Amsterdam. His typefaces have been awarded by the Type Directors Club on three occasions.
The 6-week type design programme that you’ve been waiting for starts on 2 June and ends 10 July 2026.
Open to all Our summer programme is in English and covers typeface design and calligraphy techniques, type history, and software practices. Whether you’re a design pro or just curious about type design, you can learn all about it in a relatively short amount of time.
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