Lisa Huang 黄丽莎 is a type designer specialised in Latin and Chinese scripts, currently based in Nantes, France. Her interest in type and typography focuses on multi-cultural works, especially those mixing Latin-French and Chinese writing systems which mirrors her life as a multi-cultural human.

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Exhibitions

  • Here </> There 艺术的未来：全球新锐设计成果展, 
Today Art museum 今日美术馆, Beijing 北京, China 中国 
- Oct 15 to Nov 3, 2019
  • Typojanchi 타이포잔치 : 6th International Typography Biennale 6 회국제타이포그래피비엔날레, 
Culture Station Seoul 284 문화역서울, Seoul, South Korea 
- Oct 5 to Nov 3, 2019
  • Across Borders with Barcelona Design Week, Barcelona, Spain - Nov 17 to 26, 2020

Talks & Workshops

  • (TALK) Designer's responsibility in multiscript identities 设计师如何做好多文字品牌设计, Shanghai 上海, China 中国 
- Dec 6, 2019
  • (WORKSHOP) Logotype design from A to 字 
中西文双语字标工作坊, Shanghai 上海, China 中国 
- Dec 7 to 8, 2019
  • (COURSE) Type School Online with 3type - Advanced，西文字体设计 - (三言）高阶版, China 中国 
- June 2 to 12, 2020
  • (TALK) Digitization of Nüshu script to join Noto Sans family, TypeLab for Typographics 2020, online - June 20, 2020
  • (TALK) Noto Sans 家族迎来女书字体, bilibili直播 - July 4, 2020
  • (PODCAST) 字谈字畅 130: 江永城内女书情, online podcast at TheType.com - July 21, 2020
  • (TALK) Nüshu, a script created by self-educated women in a remote region of China, online lecture at Letterform Archive, - March 16, 2021
  • (TALK) Designing with Multiple Unknowns, TDC's Type Drives Communities Online Conference - May 7, 2021
  • (WORKSHOP) Walk through, Blend in, Bend it, Re-invent, online workshop with Émilie Aurat, Garine Gokceyan and Loraine Furter for Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin - June 21 to 30, 2021
  • (WORKSHOP) Latin Type Design Revival Workshop, 西文字体设计复刻工作坊，with 3type TypeSchool, online - July 1 to 29, 2022
  • (LECTURE) What is Nüshu?, at TGA 2022, Raabs an der Thaya, Austria - Aug 26, 2022

Writings

  • Noto Sans Nüshu: A script created by women from a remote region enters the Google Fonts Noto Sans family (link)
  • Noto Sans Nüshu's Process and Progress (link)

Publications

  • "Organic Petals / Wood, Woods, Forest" in Typojanchi 2019 Exhibition catalogue
  • Interview "Consistency Between Design and Culture?", with Gakky Luk in BranD magazine, issue 55 (2021)
  • "Multi-scripts, Blended Type Family Stories", with Garine Gokceyan, Loraine Furter, Naïma Ben Ayed and Émilie Aurat for FORUM+ magazine, Feb.2022 issue (vol.29 n.1)

Clients

Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, Arrowtype, Dinamo,...

Studies

  1. Type@Cooper 2015 Condensed, New York City, US
  2. Type@Paris 2016, Paris, FR
  3. Type and Media 2018, The Hague, NL (view graduation project)