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Roman Type [Roman Wilhelm] Born in 1976 in Germany, Roman Wilhelm graduated in 2004 with a diploma related to a German-Chinese book project. He studied visual communication at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (Saale) in Germany and type design at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig under Fred Smeijers. He briefly taught type design at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. Besides working for Berlin-Beijing-based studio INSIDE A Communications, he is a member of the Multilingual Typography Research Group at the Geneva University of Art and Design. A fluent Chinese speaker, his work focuses on cross-cultural mediation, Chinese-Western bilingual typography and typeface design issues. A frequent visitor of Asia, he has taught at various academies such as the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, as well as the Seoul National University College of Fine Art. He is working towards a PhD at the Braunschweig University of Art. Roman is primarily a web, book and magazine designer, but in 2009, he did create Sung New Roman, a typeface for Latin-Chinese typography, for which he received the award Ars Lipsiensis in 2009. In 2013, he designed a wonderful hand-drawn Chinese typeface, Laowai Song. It has over 28,000 Chinese ideographs, supported by a perfectly matched hand-drawn roman. At 3type, he published Hong Kong Street Face (2015), a Hanzi font that reflects the character of Hong Kong. His typeface Koex Text (2016) aims to meet the requirements of style-switching typography, i.e., the use of a different style for imported words or special context material [examples of this include katakana in Japanese, or roman letters in blackletter text in 16th century Prussia for words of Latin origin]. Designer of the octagonal / techno typeface family 946 Latin (2019), Pivnaya-Cyrillic Greek, Pivnaya-Arabic, Pivnaya-Hebrew and Pivnaya-Latin. Pivnaya, a geometric display typeface inspired by Bauhaus and featuring many triangles. In 2017, Roman Wilhelm and 3type, a Shanghai-based type foundry, released a six-style extension called Freundschafts Antiqua Neue, a revival and extension of the famous Freundschafts-Antiqua made between 1959 and 1962 by Yu Bingnan during his studies and research under Albert Kapr in Leipzig. 3type has also fashioned a sans-serif member of the Freundschafts-Antiqua Neue family. Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong on multicultural typography. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Code Switching, Multi-Style, Diglossia. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of multilingual typography in Belgium.	EXTERNAL LINKS Roman Type [Buy fonts] [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Type design in China ⦿ Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Bauhaus and type design ⦿ Typefaces and type design for Arabic ⦿