Indices : Designers : Alessandro Segalini
Born in Piacenza, Italy (1976). He studied design at the Polytechnic of Milan and Visual Communication at the University of Art and Design of Helsinki (2002), earning a MSc degree in industrial design from the Polytechnic University of Milan (2004).
Self-taught in calligraphy, he developed font editing skills in Philadelphia (2005), and developed skills as a typographic designer, lecturer, and prepress technician at studios, ateliers, agencies, institutions and publishing houses in Piacenza, Milan and Rome. He has studied philosophy and history of type and has written articles on the subject for the Italian magazines “Graphicus” and “Progetto grafico.”
In 2005, he accepted a position as graphic design instructor at the Department of Graphic Design at Bilkent University (Turkey), where he taught graphic design and typography.
He is member of the editorial board of "Multi," the Rochester Institute of Technology journal of diversity & plurality in design.
He is currently teaching typographic design and design education at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design at Izmir University of Economics.
Hemingway™ designed by Alessandro Segalini was inspired by the prize winning novel The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Miller Hemingway.
