Mark De Winne: Typography Mentorship and Type Design Asia

In this episode John Kudos chats with Mark De Winne, a Singaporean type designer and educator. They discussed the launch of Type Design Asia, a program dedicated to empower the rising type design communities in South East Asia through accessible education and mentorship.

Mark was the head of Relay Room, a design shop in Singapore, but found his way to the Type and Media program at the Royal Academy of Art (Netherlands) and Type@Cooper program at the Cooper Union in New York where he met his typography mentors catapulted his journey.

0:00 Introduction
3:00 Work-Life Harmony & Parenthood
7:30 The Flow State & Type Design Process
10:30 Mark’s Journey into Type Design
14:30 Authenticity in Typography & Singapore Gothic
18:30 The Rise of Type Design in Asia
22:00 Type Design Asia; Educating the Next Generation
27:00 Typography & Cultural Bias
30:30 The Responsibility of Designers & Using Your Voice
38:00 Final Thoughts & Looking Ahead

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