Mark De Winne

Typography 
Mentorship and Type Design Asia

17 September 2024 Share

September 17, 2024 — 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.

  • Introduction
  • Work-Life Harmony & Parenthood
  • The Flow State & Type Design Process
  • Mark’s Journey into Type Design

Some of the more interesting typefaces are ones that are made in these places that carry the influence of where they're from.

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