The future of type isn’t abstract or inevitable. It’s being shaped every day through concrete decisions: who gets recognition, what gets made, and which structures we reinforce. In this talk, Flavia Zimbardi traces how collaboration, publishing, and community-building became her way of navigating – and challenging – the field, designing systems as deliberately as the typefaces themselves.
Flavia Zimbardi is an independent type designer and visual artist from Rio de Janeiro whose work connects cultural heritage and activism. Founder of the feminist initiative Women in Type and author of the publishing platform Contraforma, she partners with foundries including Commercial Type, Frere-Jones, Adobe Fonts, and Google Fonts, and with clients such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Penguin Random House, Pentagram, and Jones Knowles Ritchie. Her work has received awards from the ADC and the Tipos Latinos Biennial, and with Lygia, she became the first Brazilian woman to have a typeface recognized by the Type Directors Club.
Apply before 14 January for the three-week type design course starting 5 April and ending 24 April 2027.
After 10 years in Paris, we reinvent our type design programme. We go from 6 weeks to 3 weeks, while maintaining the fundamentals that make TypeParis’ reputation.
The course will take place in Menorca, Spain for the first time. In 2027, we offer two levels, Foundation and Expert, which allows you to discover type design, or to gain expertise after an initial training.
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