TypeMedia Years
These is an informal list of all the people who attended the TypeMedia studio. If you want to add, remove or change a link for you, let us know and we’ll fix it!
TypeMedia students come from all over the world: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Catalonia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Repubic, Denmark, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA and Vietnam.
Class 2026-2027
Nicole Arthaber, Rocco Barbaro, Lionel Dumortier, Lois Hinshelwood, Dania Idelbi, Benjamin Knopper, Felix Koeder, Alicia Link, Nicolas Sendre Billout, Kiên Mai, Katharina Spegel, Yusuke Ito,
Class 2025-2026
Lisa Bauer, Gabriel Dukić, Adriana Garcidueñas Villalobos, Maryam Golpayegani, Franziska Hauber, Ayaka Ito, Lucija Kapetanić, Alaa Tameem, Gintarė Razmaitė, Tereza Umlaufová, Nu Zając,
External examiner: Kai Bernau
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Class 2024-2025
Luka Appelberg, Marion Bisserier, Luboslav Boyanov, Tina Božan, Andrea Hayek, Céline Jouandet, Gergő Kókai, Mălin Neamțu, Rebeka Orosz, Tamara Segura, Kaat Vandenbroeck, Morgane Vantorre,
External examiner: Lara Captan
Class 2023-2024
Felix Bamforth, Anne-Dauphine Borione, Hanna Boslau, Cecilia del Castillo Daza, Nina Faulhaber, Pauline Fourest, Max Holl, Fabio Pop, Ben Rouzaud, Mihael Šandro, Betsy Schuster, Zhenya Spizhovyi, Mint Tantisuwanna,
External examiner: Paul Barnes
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MA Accreditation Standards 2+3
Class 2022-2023
Abraham Abebe, Omaima Dajani, Benjamin Gaupset, Archie Heaslip, Maria Jarzyna, Samara Keller, Nika Langosch, Jacqueline Martinović, Iliyana Nalbantska, Pavel Pavlov,
External examiner: Martin Majoor
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Class 2021-2022
Benn Zorn, Léa Bruneau, Jakob Fangmeier, Anna Khorash, Risto Kujanpää, Borjan Pavlek, Lora Shtirkova, Boom Promphan Suksumek, Sam Van Vaerenbergh, Marte Verhaegen, Jacob Wise,
External examiner: Irene Vlachou
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Class 2020-2021
Gajana Aslanjan, Ivo Brouwer, Edward Dżułaj, Lukas Horn, Lena Le Pommelet, Stef Pauwels, Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy, Sander Pedersen, Caterina Santullo, Tanguy Vanlaeys, Neva Zidić,
External examiner: Trine Rask
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MA Accreditation Standards 1+4
Class 2019-2020
Thomas Bouillet, Nina Botthof, Arnaud Chemin, Jamie Chang, Céline Hurka, Jovana Jocić, Ruggero Magrì, Elena Peralta, Renan Rosatti, Jan Šindler, Olga Umpeleva, Huw Williams,
External examiner: Mario Feliciano
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Class 2018-2019
Eva Abdulina, Alexis Boscariol, Ryan Bugden, Luke Charsley, Ethan Cohen, Rutherford Craze, Anya Danilova, Ricard Garcia, Joona Louhi, Fabiola Mejía, Michelangelo Nigra, Céline Odermatt,
External examiner: Henrik Birkvig
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Class 2017-2018
Rafał Buchner, Zrinka Buljubašić, Sean Donohoe, Mona Franz, Namrata Goyal, Lisa Huang, Noheul Lee, Stephen Nixon, Gen Ramírez, Claudia Rifaterra, Katja Schimmel, Carlos de Toro,
External examiner: Laura Meseguer
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GNp 2018 Exhibition for Cyrus Highsmith. Robothon 2018
Class 2016-2017
Daniel Coull, Sven Fuchs, Borna Grčević, Romina Hernández, Thom Janssen, Eino Korkala, Muk Monsalve, Pablo Gámez Navarro, Eunyou Noh, Lipi Raval, Martin Pyšný, Magda Wiśniewska,
External examiner: Catherine Dixon
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Class 2015-2016
Roberto Arista, Selina Bernet, Alessio D’Ellena, Daniel Grumer, Jitka Janečková, Bogidar Mascareñas, Daria Petrova, Inga Plönnings, Marc Rouault, Paul Troppmair, Bart Vollebregt, Franziska Weitgruber,
External examiner: Sébastien Morlighem
Class 2014-2015
Elliott Amblard, Benedikt Bramböck, Bahman Eslami, Minjoo Ham, Tilmann Hielscher, Marko Hrastovec, Katerina Kochkina, Philipp Neumeyer, Loris Olivier, Heidi Sørensen, Tetsuo Suzuki, Jasper Terra, Cristian Vargas Vargas,
External examiner: Phil Baines
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GNp 2015 awarded to Cyrus Highsmith. Exhibition for Karel Martens. Robothon 2015. Jan-Willem Stas retires. Erik van Blokland appointed department head and Marja van der Burgh coördinator.
Class 2013-2014
David Chmela, James Edmondson, Mark Frömberg, Sláva Jevčinová, Hugo Marucco, Alexandre Saumier Demers, Nina Stössinger, Mark De Winne,
External examiner: Jo De Baerdemaeker
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Class 2012-2013
Tania Alvarez Zaldivar, Étienne Aubert Bonn, Barbara Bigosińska, Maria Doreuli, Sun Helen Isdahl Kalvenes, Adam Katyi, Troy Leinster, Diana Ovezea, Krista Radoeva, Lukas Schneider, Teo Tuominen, Bernd Volmer,
External examiner: Indra Kupferschmid
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MA Accreditation
Class 2011-2012
Noe Blanco, Aliz Borsa, Joe (Hsuan-Hao) Chang, Dave Foster, Christine Gertsch, Pradnya Naik, Sveinbjörn Pálsson, Daniel Perraudin, Miguel Reyes, Alexander Roth, Aleksandra Samuļenkova, Hrvoje Živčić,
External examiner: Christian Schwartz
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GNp 2012 awarded to Karel Martens. Exhibition for Wim Crouwel. Robothon 2012
Image: TypeMedia
Class 2010-2011
Yassin Baggar, Marina Chaccur, Colin M. Ford, Jan Gerner, Malte Herok, Linda Hintz, Sun Jung Hwang, Alpkan Kirayoglu, Emma Laiho, Kunihiko Okano, Florian Schick, Lauri Toikka,
External examiner: Peter Matthias Noordzij
Class 2009-2010
Martina Flor, Jon Glarbo, Frank Grießhammer, Fritz Grögel, Yohanna Mỹ Nguyễn, Slávka Pauliková, Tânia Raposo, Kristyan Sarkis, Brigitte Schuster, Irina Smirnova, Nils Thomsen,
External examiner: Lucas de Groot
Class 2008-2009
Laure Afchain, Khajag Apelian, Marta Bernstein, Ján Filípek, Abi Huynh, Ondrej Jób, Holger Königsdörfer, Charles Mazé, Dan Milne, César Puertas, Sueh Li Tan,
External examiner: Robin Kinross (June), Rich Roat (March)
GNp 2009 awarded to Wim Crouwel. Exhibition for Tobias Frere-Jones. Robothon 2009
Class 2007-2008
Francesca Bolognini, Alessia Castelli, Mathieu Christe, Roland Dill, Berton Hasebe, Thomas Klaui, Johannes Lang, Ross Milne, Jonathan Pierini, Gustavo Soares,
External examiner: Albert-Jan Pool
First year as MA
Class 2006-2007
Eike Dingler, Thomas Gabriel, Sibe Kokke, Sonja Ladebusch, Sébastien Sanfilippo, Ludwig Übele, Edgar Walthert, Seonil Yun,
External examiner: Martin Majoor
MA Accreditation
Class 2005-2006
Christina Bee, Frederik Berlaen, Kai Bernau, Alexandra Busse, Christoph Dunst, Gustavo Ferreira, Anton Koovit, Annika Larsson, Malou Osendarp, Ian Party, Mattias Schelbert, Joel Shane, Pascal Zoghbi,
External examiner: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger
GNp 2006 awarded to Tobias Frere-Jones. Robothon 2006
Class 2004-2005
Yomar Augusto, Andy Clymer, Nikola Djurek, Wendy Ellerton, Ryan Pescatore Frisk, Sibylle Geiger, Hanna Hakala-Kurppa, Pascal Richon, Ilya Ruderman, Annika Schorstein, Erwin Timmerman, Stefan Willerstorfer,
External examiner: Wigger Bierma, Eyal Holtzman
Class 2003-2004
Susana Carvalho, Alessandro Colizzi, Ramiro Espinoza, Vera Evstafieva, Maarten Idema, Krassen Krestev, Laura Meseguer, Trine Rask Olsen, Bas van Vuurde,
External examiner: Rick Vermeulen
Class 2002-2003
Marie Aumont, David Esser, André Heers, Indre Klimaite, Diego Mier-y-Teran, Britt Möricke, Ruth Nezer, Artur Schmal, Barbara Neves Alves,
← Type and Media
In 2002 the course continued with a bigger curriculum and a larger studio. Jan Willem Stas is appointed as coördinator.
Postgraduate course Letters →
The precursor to TypeMedia, a smaller programme started by the KABK to explore a (then new) bachelor / master structure.
Teachers: Peter Matthias Noordzij, Petr van Blokland, Frank Blokland, Peter Verheul
Class 2002
Hugo D’Alte, Peterpaul Kloosterman, Maarten van Maanen, Pieter van Rosmalen,
Class 2001
Hugo D’Alte, Corina Cotorobai, Mauro Paolozzi, Christine Wienand,
Class 2000
Corina Cotorobai, Paul van der Laan, Merel Wagner (née Matzinger), Christine Wienand,
Class 1999
Bas Jacobs, Akiem Helmling,
Class 1997
Andreas Kindl, Albert Pinggera, John Romkes,
Class 1996
Henno Drop, Eyal Holtzman,
GNp awarded to Gerrit Noordzij. ATypI Conference in The Hague.
Class 1995
Tineke Lemmens, Theresia Koelewijn,
Class 1994
Aart Gerde, Onno Schaap, Paul Schumacher, Ronald Zwart,
Photo Norman Posselt
Not just the students from 2026, but most of the Typemedia alumni present at the FontStand conference in Berlin, April 2026.
Photo Norman Posselt
Not just the students from 2017, but most of the Typemedia alumni present at the TYPO conference in Berlin, April 2017.
Photo: TypeMedia
Outcomes of a quick sketching session, 2014
Photo: TypeMedia
TypeMedia boss Jan Willem Stas and Gerard Unger during a visit of the MATD Reading class in 2014
Photo: TypeMedia
Peter Verheul, students looking at letters, 2006