Sibylle Hagmann
Guest Designer
Profile
Sibylle Hagmann began her career in Switzerland at the Basel School of Design and explored her passion for anything type related in California, while completing her MFA at CalArts.
During this time she developed typefaces, most notably the award winning Cholla family, originally commissioned by Art Center College of Design, and released soon after by the type foundry Emigre in 1999. Her typeface family Odile, first published in 2006, was awarded the Swiss Federal Design Award in the same year. She is a professor at the University of Houston’s School of Art since 2002 and runs the type foundry Kontour.
Sibylle Hagmann’s work has been featured in numerous publications and recognized by the Type Directors Club of New York and Japan. Over the years, she presented her work nationally and internationally at typography conferences and educational institutions with occasional workshops.