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Min Wang

Min Wang is a professor at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA). He is currently serving as dean of the School of Design at CAFA and director of the Art Research Centre for the Olympic Games. He also serves as Standing Expert on Image and Identity for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Committee. He received his BA in graphic art from CAFA and an MFA from Yale University School of Art where he studied under Armin Hoffman, Paul Rand, and Bradbury Thompson. He is the design director at Square Two Design, which he joined in 1998 after serving eight years as design manager, senior art director and graphic designer at Adobe Systems. He has been a visiting fellow in Germany at Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Munich and Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin. In 1989, he began lecturing in graphic design at Yale University School of Art, teaching graduate students until 1997.

Square Two Design clients include: Adobe, IBM, Intel, Stanford University, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

At Adobe, he designed the mythical figure caps typeface Mythos (together with Jim Wasco).

At this site, Min Wang used to have nine Chinese/Japanese/Cyrillic truetype fonts: GCdls, GCWei, GCXfang, TCHei, TCSun, GCFang, GCHei, GCKai, GCSong. Alternate (dated) URL.

Keynote speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong.

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

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