Sandra Morales is a Mexican type and graphic designer with a strong interest in history and linguistic diversity. Her passion for letterforms took her to Argentina, where she pursued a Master's in Typography at the University of Buenos Aires. Her graduation project, Malinali, was recognized with the 2024 Gerard Unger Scholarship Merit Award by TypeTogether.
Francisco, known as Pancho, lives in Santiago, Chile. He studied Graphic Design after the end of the dictatorship in 1990 and discovered his passion for type design in a self-taught manner while working. This interest led him to teach typography at Diego Portales University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and to publish the book Educación tipográfica in 2004.
Marte is a Latin American Graphic Designer and Lettering Artist from Argentina, now based in NYC. Inspired by 90's cartoons, graffiti, 60s psychedelia, and the candy packaging of her childhood, Marte infuses fun and vibrancy into her designs, creating a perfect blend of nostalgia and contemporary cool.
Her art has attracted attention from an impressive list of clients, including artists such as Paul McCartney, Lizzo, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as brands like Adobe, Nickelodeon, and Disney. In 2023, she was recognized as a TDC Ascender and Young Guns winner.
Kel Troughton is a type designer, lettering artist, graffiti writer, and educator, living in Oakland CA. Kel was a co-curator of the exhibition “Subscription to Mischief” at Letterform Archive, showcasing the 1990s graffiti community and the independent publishing that documented it.
With an art curator mother and a graphic designer father, Kalapi Gajjar was immersed in visual culture from an early age.
After studying graphic design at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, in his home town of Vadodara in Gujarat, Gajjar spent a year as an art director at Wieden + Kennedy's Delhi office.
Frustrated with the lack of contemporary typefaces available for Indic scripts, he left India to complete a masters in type design at Reading University – where he met Universal Thirst co-founder Gunnar Vilhjálmsson.
