Lisa Huang Studio

Lisa Huang is a French and Chinese typeface designer specializing in Latin and Hanzi scripts currently based in Nantes, France.

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Lisa Huang (黄丽莎) is a French and Chinese typeface designer specializing in Latin and Hanzi scripts currently based in Nantes, France.

Born in France with Chinese roots, she grew up with two cultures simultaneously in the cosmopolitan environment of Paris and found out the many differences and similarities between French and Chinese ways of life. As a designer today, her practice of typography and typeface design reflects her life experience while keeping a high consideration and comprehension of both writing systems to better connect them.

After graduating with a Master’s degree in Art Direction in Paris, she pursued a specialization in Type Design at Type@Cooper (Cooper Union in New York City, USA) followed by a Master’s degree at TypeMedia (KABK in The Hague, Netherlands). Lisa has experience practicing as a freelance designer and in-house art director, working for clients of various sizes and industries, local and international. Eventually, she settled in as an independent designer, to dedicate more time and freedom to activities related to typography along with her design practice, such as workshops, lectures, teaching, and consulting in type design between Latin and Hanzi scripts, shared in English, French, and Chinese.

Since 2023, she has been working on Words of Type (work in progress), a multilingual encyclopedia of typographic terms.

Typeface in use: Weekend Grotesque (name to change soon).
Website by Goodthing Studio.

TALKS

  • Words of Type
    Presentation at Inscript
    Online
    Oct 4, 2023
  • What is Nüshu?
    Talk at TGA 2022
    Raabs an der Thaya, Austria
    Aug 26, 2022
  • Designing with Multiple Unknowns
    Online Conference for TDC’s Type Drives Communities
    May 7, 2021
  • Nüshu, a script created by self-educated women in a remote region of China
    Online lecture at Letterform Archive
    March 16, 2021
  • 字谈字畅 130: 江永城内女书情
    Online podcast at TheType.com
    July 21, 2020
  • Noto Sans 家族迎来女书字体
    Online lecture on bilibili直播
    July 4, 2020
  • Digitization of Nüshu script to join Noto Sans family
    Online talk at TypeLab for Typographics 2020
    June 20, 2020
  • A 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

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Jury member for 25 TDC
    Typeface Design Competition
    (Chinese script)
    Type Directors Club - TDC’s Typography 43
    2022

STUDIES