Inscript—the go-to virtual event for all things at the overlap of technological and typographic innovation—is back for its fourth year. Inscript 2025 will take place online from October 15th through the 19th, with 6 months of video replay now available to advance ticket holders.

Focusing on design, language, and all facets of communication, Inscript provides a space for the leading contemporary talent to let you in behind-the-scenes into their process-making and what’s motivating them today.

Curators

  • Au Chon Hin

    Au Chon Hin, is an acclaimed designer from Macau, who mainly engages in brand identity and visual identity. He is the founder and creative director of Untitled Macao, supervisor of Macau Designers Association, executive Director of Shenzhen Graphic Design Association (SGDA), advisory board member of Type Directors Club (TDC), and is known for his forward-thinking and bold visions. His works utilize vibrant colour clashes as well as simple yet figurative lines to bring a new visual experience to his clients.

  • Ksenya Samarskaya

    Ksenya Samarskaya is a strategist and creative practitioner focusing on all things typographic and pedagogical, with equitable regenerative futures constantly on her mind. Samarskaya leads a type and branding practice, Samarskaya & Partners, and is highly active in the greater community as an AGI member, past board member at AIGA/NY and ATypI, and past TDC director. She teaches type and creative strategy worldwide.

  • Alex Slobzheninov

    Alex Slobzheninov does everything related to typography—uses type, makes type, and makes tools to make type. Based in Prague, he is the founder of Contemporary Type and part of Pangram Pangram, having previously worked with &Walsh studio. Slobzheninov has been featured in publications including It’s Nice That, New Aesthetic, PRINT, and Slanted; and has won the TDC Ascenders and ADC YG rising star awards.

Presentations & Discussions

  • Moderator
    Moderator
    Wed, Oct 15
    01:00 PM GMT

    Kathleen Sleboda

    Kathleen Sleboda is an art director, graphic designer, and illustrator. Her work crosses disciplines and often weaves together the acts of making, curating, collaborating, and documenting. She is co-founder and design director of Draw Down Books and principal of the illustration studio Gluekit.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Wed, Oct 15
    01:05 PM GMT

    Even A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day

    Sometimes failure leads to unexpected outcomes. The “Messy Clock” series started from a study about Cyclic Coordinate Descent Inverse Kinematics, which I wanted to use to control movements of 3D models. This resulted in a failure that made me drop the original purpose, and proceed to make a messy clock.

    Choi Gunhyuk

    Choi Gunhyuk is a Seoul based creative coder and graphic designer who draws with code. His work explores image making through procedural experimentation, machine learning and shader based techniques, often circling questions of role and identity across design and media art. Recent showings include DEMO Festival and the Beyond Reality program at BIFAN. Choi continues to build a catalog of experiments that turn algorithms into tactile visuals and motion.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Wed, Oct 15
    01:35 PM GMT

    Expressive Type: Silly Unserious-seriousness

    In this talk, I will be sharing about how self-expression has bleed into my explorations around typography, treating type as dynamic shapes that draw emotion through each curve and flow. Taking heart in silliness and using illegibility to my advantage, let's explore how experimenting with the unreadable can bring harmonious chaos to design.

    Claire Boon

    Claire Boon is a Singapore based graphic designer whose work celebrates bright color, expressive type and meticulous systems. Winner of the Vogue Singapore Talent Prize, she moves between editorial, brand and music adjacent graphics with a playful but rigorous approach. Recent features spotlight a practice that questions and reframes common design methods while keeping craft and joy in view.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Wed, Oct 15
    02:05 PM GMT

    Alec Vivier-Reynaud

    Alec Vivier Reynaud is a French graphic designer and bio designer working between Paris and Caen. He develops editorial projects, visual identities and scenography while researching living images through bio inks and lab craft. Collaborations include the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, alongside public talks about printing with living materials. His practice looks for accurate, generous systems that grow from each commission.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Wed, Oct 15
    02:35 PM GMT

    Freedom and Experiment

    Freedom and Experiment explores the importance of making your own work as a way to grow, discover, and reinvent yourself. By embracing intuition and going with the flow, design becomes more than problem-solving—it turns into a space of exploration without fixed outcomes. Experimentation is not just a method, but a mindset that encourages risk, openness, and new perspectives. Through personal projects, freedom becomes the fuel for innovation and the path toward uncovering what you are truly capable of.

    Stephanie Specht

    Stephanie Specht is a Belgian graphic designer who has worked independently since graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in 2006. With experience in Cape Town, Brussels, Princeton, and New York, her practice emphasizes freedom and reinvention. She is known for raw simplicity and intuition-driven design, specializing in identity, posters, and books. Her portfolio includes collaborations with Google Design, Nike, and Dazed. Beyond client work, she values experimentation, personal projects, and sharing through talks, workshops, and exhibitions.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Wed, Oct 15
    03:05 PM GMT

    What melodies can be found in typography?

    I’m an interdisciplinary designer working through creative coding, drawn to the balance of contrasts. At Inscript, I’ll trace how wide-ranging, process-led exploration shapes my work — moving from quick examples to a case study on type-reactive audio. We’ll go behind the scenes: exploration, iteration, and key technical choices. I’ll close by sharing resources and open code so you can remix the ideas and push them in your own direction.

    Mike van der Sanden

    I’m an interdisciplinary designer fascinated by the balance of contrasts. Through creative coding, I explore the edges of visual comfort — looking for beauty in friction. I believe the soul of a project lies in its process. My work is an ongoing dialogue between structure and disruption, allowing the unexpected to coexist with the intentional.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Wed, Oct 15
    03:35 PM GMT

    What If…

    An invitation to embrace the infinite possibilities of creation.
    In this talk, art director and founder of Nubikini Studio & Co., Nubia Navarro opens up her creative process, blending client work, personal exploration, artistic experimentation, and the evolving role of AI in design.
    Through real projects and playful detours, What If invites you to rethink how ideas are born, how creative boundaries are broken, and how emotions can reshape your relationship with your craft.
    Whether you’re a designer or curious mind, this talk is a call to challenge conventions, trust your instincts, and ask the question that leads to unexpected results

    Nubia Navarro

    Nubia Navarro, also known as Nubikini, is an art director, lettering artist, and typography lover based in Bogotá, Colombia (with her heart set on Venezuela). She enjoys the ability to adapt to any project and generate impressive and colorful images that generate emotions through colors.

  • Moderator
    Moderator
    Thu, Oct 16
    01:00 PM GMT

    Agyei Archer

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Thu, Oct 16
    01:05 PM GMT

    Au Chon Hin, Untitled Macao

    Au Chon Hin is a Macau based designer and founder/creative director of Untitled Macao. Known for vivid color clashes and crisp, figurative lines, his studio spans branding, signage and wayfinding for clients across Asia and beyond. Au serves in the Macau Designers Association and SGDA leadership, and sits on the Type Directors Club advisory board, championing an outward looking, contemporary visual culture for the region.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Thu, Oct 16
    01:35 PM GMT

    Hyunsun You

    Hyunsun You is a Seoul based graphic designer at Workroom. Her practice moves between typographic systems, image making and product adjacent work like Kaufman, an objects brand that reframes quotes from books, film and music. A TDC Ascenders winner, she balances studio practice with collaborations in photography and publishing, foregrounding clarity of problem solving in the work.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Thu, Oct 16
    02:05 PM GMT

    Anoushka Rodda & Pali Palavathanan, Templo

    Anoushka Rodda and Pali Palavathanan lead TEMPLO, a London based, cause led branding studio working across human rights, culture and climate. Recent projects include the future facing GF Smith rebrand and multiple British Pavilion identities for the Venice Biennale. Their practice pairs strategic clarity with typographic punch, designing for impact, access and social change.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Thu, Oct 16
    02:35 PM GMT

    Martyna Wędzicka-Obuchowicz

    Martyna Wędzicka Obuchowicz is a Polish art director and graphic designer whose work spans identities, editorial and posters, often underpinned by glitch aesthetics. A lecturer and frequent juror, she has been recognized by Polish and international platforms; clients range from cultural institutions to music. Her studio output is direct and experimental, folding process artifacts into clean systems. She lives and works in Gdańsk.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Thu, Oct 16
    03:05 PM GMT

    When Letters Dance

    We like our type alive, loud, and never standing still. In Brazil, the foundries around us are bold, restless, and full of stories—and we’ve made it our job to put those voices in motion. Over the years, Polar has been exploring how to make type move with rhythm and character through animated specimens. At Inscript, we’ll share how we approach this craft, the collaborations we’ve built with some talented Brazilian type designers, and why motion feels so natural to our culture.

    Polar, Ltda.

    Polar is an independent design studio born in Brazil and operating globally. The studio designs brands, products, books, exhibitions, websites, videos, campaigns, and experiences, approaching design beyond aesthetics and turning it into a strategic tool that delivers concrete results.

  • Moderator
    Moderator
    Fri, Oct 17
    01:00 PM GMT

    Laura Scofield

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Fri, Oct 17
    01:05 PM GMT

    Liu Zhao, Another Design

    Liu Zhao is the founder and creative director of Another Design in Guangzhou. An AGI member and TDC Ascenders honoree, he moves comfortably between traditional craft and new media, expanding graphic design’s boundaries through transmedia identities and cultural commissions. His approach pairs local nuance with an international lens.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Fri, Oct 17
    01:35 PM GMT

    Zin Nagao

    Zin Nagao is a Fukuoka based designer focused on experimental type, graphic and motion, pushing letters toward new behaviors via daily typographic training and releases through his FOZNT label. Recent recognition includes TDC Ascenders. His practice searches for fresh letter born expression across tools, from variable fonts to kinetic systems.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Fri, Oct 17
    02:05 PM GMT

    Double-Slanted Italics: A New Take on Typographic Emphasis

    Atlantic is an experimental typeface venturing into a relatively unexplored territory of type design: the Double-Slanted Italics. This hybrid form combines both left- and right-leaning angles within a single typeface, challenging the conventional idea of italics and opening up a new dimension of typographic emphasis. From the research process and design challenges to the surprising possibilities it offers, here’s the story behind Atlantic — and why it might make you rethink what italics can do.


    Emelie Gannert

    I‘m Emelie Gannert, a type- and graphic designer in the making, currently creating in Weimar, Germany. Moving between digital and print, system and expression, order and chaos, Letters are my favourite playground – from designing them to designing with them. I explore editorial, identity, web and type design with an eye for detail and a heart for ideas.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Fri, Oct 17
    02:35 PM GMT

    Anouk Beckers & Lejla Vala Verheus

    Designer and researcher Anouk Beckers and critical fashion practitioner Lejla Vala Verheus collaborate on Booklook and on JOIN Collective Clothes. Their projects fuse publishing and clothing, inviting people to make and wear knowledge together through open source patterns, workshops and wearable magazines. The duo’s work sits at the intersection of fashion, education and collective making, spreading through classrooms, shops and cultural spaces in the Netherlands and beyond.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Fri, Oct 17
    03:05 PM GMT

    Vincent de Boer

    Vincent de Boer, whose background is rooted in calligraphy, constantly pushes the boundaries of language. Fascinated by the world that opens up in a single brushstroke, he explores the complexity of brush movement. His oeuvre reflects his deep understanding of material and technique and the concentration required to master them. From this base, de Boer applies his distinctive working method to different media, such as paper, murals and performances. His work has been exhibited worldwide and his hand-drawn animation film The Stroke won the debut award at the Netherlands Film Festival.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Fri, Oct 17
    03:35 PM GMT

    Jaron Korvinus, Studio Spass

    Studio Spass is a Rotterdam-based art and design studio creating identities, campaigns, and spatial projects. With a thoughtful yet playful approach, they explore the boundaries of visual systems through graphic identities, experimental typography, and large-scale public installations. Fascinated by form, material, and interaction, space often drives their process. Working both locally and internationally, their work has been widely recognized with awards and showcased at leading design events and institutions.

  • Moderator
    Moderator
    Sat, Oct 18
    01:00 PM GMT

    Angela Riechers

    Angela Riechers is Education Director at Letterform Archive in San Francisco. She was formerly Program Director of Graphic Design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She teaches and writes about typography, design, and visual culture.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sat, Oct 18
    01:05 PM GMT

    Indego Design

    Indego Design is a Macao based visual communication team crafting identities, event imagery and packaging for commercial and cultural clients. With a nimble, context first approach and collaborations across new media, the studio aims to shift perceptions of Macao beyond entertainment by delivering precise, story led visuals for regional and international brands.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sat, Oct 18
    01:35 PM GMT

    Darius Ou

    Darius Ou is a graphic designer whose practice focuses on experimental typography and graphic lore. In his spare time, he runs hyperpress, a research initiative and body of work exploring the intersections of 3D printing, graphic design and publishing—producing 3D printed books, objects and texts. He is a recipient of the ADC New York Young Guns 21 award.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sat, Oct 18
    02:05 PM GMT

    Sophia Tai, Lea Naisberg, Simon Truffer, and Katharina Nejdl

    Inscript Grant Recipients Sophia Tai, Lea Naisberg, Simon Truffer and Katharina Nejdl showcase their recent works.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sat, Oct 18
    03:05 PM GMT

    The Dancer Listens with His Toes: Multisensory and Spatial Typography in Persian

    How can we grasp the meaning of a word without being able to read it? How can words be “read” through their visual and tactile qualities, even when we do not speak language they are written in? Can other senses, such as auditory, olfactory, or gustatory perception become a part of reading? In my talk, I will share my approach to making my mother tongue, Persian, understandable, readable, and multisensorially accessible for inexperienced readers by using various spatial and material principles, through form, materiality, dimension, light, arrangement, the body, and interaction.

    Masoud Morgan

    Masoud Morgan, born in Iran, is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist exploring the sensual and material dimensions of writing, typography and language. He uses installation, sculpture as well as digital and interactive media as means of reflecting upon the interactions between writing, space and the body in social contexts. With his postgraduate project at the Berlin University of the Arts, he was awarded the Research Grant in Fine Arts 2025 (Berlin Senate) and was nominated for the German Design Award.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sat, Oct 18
    03:35 PM GMT

    CC Studio

    CC Studio is a London based experimental motion practice working across brand identity systems, music videos and typographic animation. The studio treats motion as the connective tissue of contemporary identity, designing kinetic toolkits that shift gracefully between screens, stages and campaigns while keeping type at the core.

  • Moderator
    Moderator
    Sun, Oct 19
    01:00 PM GMT

    Chris Hamamoto and Ksenya Samarskaya

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sun, Oct 19
    01:05 PM GMT

    Rob Farmer

    Rob Farmer is an Australian designer and illustrator. His practice blends confident color and playful motion across cultural and technology clients, moving between studio collaborations and self initiated projects. Recent client work includes an illustration commission for The Economist, work on Coinbase System Update with Isle of Any, and illustrations for Zara. He regularly shares self-initiated motion illustrations on his instagram and believes that this “work for nobody” is central to staying creatively happy. Rob is based in Melbourne and works internationally.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sun, Oct 19
    01:35 PM GMT

    Evi O

    Evi O is a Sydney based designer, artist and publisher leading Evi O Studio. Her practice merges craft and clarity, book design, cultural identities and public art, often blurring boundaries between studio and gallery. A long time contributor to Australia’s design culture, she is also an AGI member and runs a publishing imprint focused on high caliber cultural titles.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sun, Oct 19
    02:05 PM GMT

    Glimmers in the Darkness

    Using the work of light, Macula Nigra develops various projects at the intersection of visual arts, graphic design, and installation. Using artisanal and lo-fi processes (screen printing, engraving, collage), he creates prints and small installations that play with our visual perception. RGB additive printing and its extension into ultraviolet radiation open up new ways of thinking about printed graphic objects, immersed in darkness.

    Macula Nigra

    Macula Nigra is an artist and printer. Or vice versa. He particularly loves paper, which sometimes reciprocates. His work revolves around the associations of images and signs, and the phenomena of image appearances, whether printed or not. He is developing several projects in the fields of architecture, graphic design, and fiduciary printing.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sun, Oct 19
    02:35 PM GMT

    Subversion, Tools, and Anti-Environments

    This talk focuses on the publishing system behind Anti-Environments, a book produced entirely in Google Sheets by subverting the software into a hybrid publishing tool. Instead of relying on conventional design programs, the project embraces limitation, friction, and subversion to question standardized workflows shaped by Big Tech infrastructures. I will share the process of transforming a spreadsheet into a publication platform, the aesthetic and conceptual outcomes it generated, and where this approach has led so far—towards new experiments in publishing, autonomy, and unexpected aesthetics.


    Luis Adrian Borchardt

    Luis Adrian Borchardt is a Berlin based designer and artist exploring experimental publishing and how books expand into spatial and digital experiences. Winner of the 2025 Sponsorship Prize for Young Book Design, his work reframes reading as an embodied interaction, where format, interface and narrative co author meaning.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sun, Oct 19
    03:05 PM GMT

    Infinite Possibilities: Arabic Letters & Creative Coding

    Arabic typography is inherently a poetic and expressive visual system rooted in form and rhythm. But what happens when it intersects with creative coding? In this talk, Sally presents her research into the visual possibilities of Arabic letterforms within computational and algorithmic systems, exploring how code can open up new modes of creative experimentation in Arabic typography.


    Sally Mallat

    Sally Mallat is a Lebanese lettering artist and creative coder based in Dubai, UAE. Her work explores Arabic typography as a form of cultural expression and a way to experiment with emerging technologies. She is currently a Creative Lead at Burson (WPP) and a part-time Lecturer at Curtin University Dubai. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in Times Square, NYC, and recognized by Dubai Lynx, Gerety Awards, the Type Directors Club and 100 Best Arabic Posters.

  • Presentation
    Presentation
    Sun, Oct 19
    03:35 PM GMT

    Alex Slobzheninov

    Alex Slobzheninov is a Prague based designer spanning type design, typography and motion. A TDC Ascenders and ADC Young Guns laureate, he is part of Pangram Pangram and founded Contemporary Type. His practice sees type as cultural accelerant, designing expressive families and tools that respond to shifts in visual language. Previously at and Walsh

Grants

We love to support and champion explorative, boundary-pushing, and thoughtful work at all stages. Individuals and teams are qualified, with the application process focusing on a description of what you’re working on or hope to explore, and where you’ve gotten to in your career thus far.

    Select Press

    • Cutting Edge of Type

      Inscript was not just a celebration of creativity; it was a testament to the power of collaboration, exploration and experimentation. As we reflect upon the insights shared and connections forged during the [2023] festival, we are reminded of the boundless possibilities that lie at the intersection of typography, technology, and human ingenuity. Inscript inspires and empowers designers to push the boundaries of what is possible, charting a course towards a more innovative and inclusive future.

      Eye Magazine

    • Access to the Futures of Type

      The experimental tone of ‘Inscript’ left me feeling exhilarated, liberated and impatient to try new these tools and methods in my own work.

      Eye Magazine

    • Echoes of Type: Weaving Sound, Code, and Culture – Inscript Type Festival 2024

      Inscript embodies the spirit of innovation, encouraging all who join to embrace their curiosity and engage with the future of typography in a way that is both accessible and inspiring. Whether you are a seasoned professional or a newcomer to the field, this festival promises to ignite your imagination and expand your understanding of how typography can shape our world.


      Typeroom

    • “Inclusive, diverse, bold”: Experimental type festival Inscript returns for its second year

      “Inclusive, diverse, bold”: Experimental type festival Inscript returns for its second year.


      It’s Nice That

    • The Daily Heller: Brazen Experiments, Phygital Media and Ferrofluid, Huh?

      “A virtual event for sharing the wildest experiments or latest innovations, Inscript highlights industry experts across typography, creative coding, phygital media, and more—from artificial intelligence to type knitting; from augmented realities to massive interactions in the physical landscape; from financial models to ferrofluid.”

      PRINT

    • Typo Festival Inscript

      Die Sprecherliste des Type Festival Inscript 2022 kann sich sehen lassen: DIA Studio, Kiel Mutschelknaus, Tina Touli, Underware und noch viele mehr.

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    • Inscript: An Online Festival of Technology and Typography

      “I think all tools change behavior. And having awareness, and dialogue, about how that happens is immensely beneficial so that it doesn’t happen in a vacuum.”

      IDEA

    • Inscript Type Festival 2023: A not-to-be-missed rendezvous with typography and innovation in the digital realm

      Inscript Type Festival 2023: A not-to-be-missed rendezvous with typography and innovation in the digital realm.

      Typeroom

    • Breaking barriers for a brave new world: Ksenya Samarskaya on Inscript Experimental Type Festival

      Inscript brings together practitioners that are pushing forward the future of type — want to know what we’re all going to be doing in a few years? See what’s possible? These are the rooms to be in.

      Typeroom

    • A.I., typography and storytelling: Analyzing the new visual identity of Inscript Festival with Kacper Pietrzykowski

      A.I., typography and storytelling: Analyzing the new visual identity of Inscript Festival with Kacper Pietrzykowski


      Typeroom

    • Inscript has the best conference lineup of the year

      Inscript has the best conference lineup of the year

      Neon Moiré via Insta Comments

    • Inscript Experimental Type Festival: the moment to join a revolution dawns online

      Inscript is this fall’s must-attend event. And THE virtual portfolio and behind-the-scenes showcase experience for all things pushing the edge of the expected.

      Typeroom

    Sponsors

    We’re always interested to work with aligned brands to further our collective vision. Please email us to discuss sponsorship opportunities.