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NAME: Sibylle Hagmann

POSITION/TITLE: Associate Professor

OFFICE ADDRESS: FA300

OFFICE TELEPHONE: 713.743.0924

WORK EMAIL: shagmann@uh.edu

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND/TRAINING

1996 M.F.A., Graphic Design, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, California.

1989 B.F.A., Graphic Design Program, Basel School of Design, Basel, Switzerland.

1984 Foundation Year, Basel School of Design, Basel, Switzerland.

RELEVANT TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2008–present Associate Professor, Graphic Communications, School of Art, University of Houston,

Houston, Texas.

2002–2008 Assistant Professor, Graphic Communications, School of Art, University of Houston,

Houston, Texas.

1998–2000 Lectures on graphic- and print related topics, Art History Department,

Museum Studies Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

1998–1999 Instructor, Graphic Design Department, Art Center College of Design,

Pasadena, California.

1997 Instructor, Graphic Design Department, University of California - Los Angeles

(UCLA Extension), Los Angeles, California.

ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP/RESEARCH/CREATIVE ENDEAVORS

Devoted area of research: the design of digital typefaces for contemporary design. Sibylle Hagmann's special interest

lays in typography and its macrocosm of individual letterforms and glyph systems. Over the years she developed

award winning typeface families, such as Cholla and Odile. Her fonts are distributed by the type foundry Emigre

and the type co-op Village. Hagmann has written for Sage Publications, Typographische Monatsblätter—Revue Suisse

de l'Imprimerie—Swiss Typographic Magazine, IDEA magazine, and occasionally contributes indirectly to EYE

magazine articles.

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Kontour is a design studio in Houston, Texas, founded by Sibylle Hagmann in 2000. Since its establishment, the studio

was committed to projects for the non-profit sector. The client base includes the arts sector, institutions like the

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, MFAH; the Menil Collection, Houston; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Fisher

Gallery of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; among others. The work produced in collaboration with

this clientele are fine art catalogues, hardbound books and ephemera.

Selected Publications

2007 “Dwiggins Revisited Revisité (English and French).” Typographische Monatsblätter—Revue Suisse de

l’Imprimerie—Swiss Typographic Magazine, January 2007. Published by the Union Comedia: Basel,

Switzerland, (2007): pp. 25 – 56.

2005 “Non-Existent Design: Women and the Creation of Type.”  Visual Communication: The New

Typography. A Special Issue, June 1, 2005, Volume 4, No. 2. Published by Sage Publications: London, U.K.,

(2005): pp. 186 – 194.

Typeface Families Created

2010 Elido. A typeface family of 16 weights distributed by the type foundry Village, New York, New York.

2010 Odile v2. A typeface family of 16 weights distributed by the type foundry Village, New York, New York.

2006 Odile v1. A typeface family of ten weights distributed by the type foundry Village, New York, New York.

2003 TwinCities. A typeface family of four weights. Designed in commission for the Twin Cities Design

Celebration, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2002 Cholla. Release of ten additional typeface weights distributed by the type foundry Emigre, Sacramento,

California. Introduced in Emigre Magazine, Issue #62, spring 2002.

1999 Cholla. Creation of the typeface family, consisting of twelve weights. Commissioned by the

Art Center College of Design (ACCD), Pasadena, California, for the 1999/2000 admissions catalog

and for promotional material designed by the ACCD design office. Distributed by the type foundry

Emigre, Sacramento, California. Introduced in Emigre Magazine, Issue #50, spring 1999.

Selected Group Exhibitions

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2010 RBMBKESHKM. The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO.

2010 Type in Good Shape. The Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany.

2006-07 2006 Swiss Federal Design Award. Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland.

2006 Invitational 2006 Exhibition. School of Art, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana.

2005 Typesthetic: The Art of Typography. Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire,

Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Featuring the work of Elliot Earls, Sibylle Hagmann, Bill Moran, Tiit Raid.

2005 Alter Ego. Annual Exhibition of work by CalArts alumni, faculty, and students.

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California.

2004 Frische Schriften (Fresh Type). Museum für Gestaltung, Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland.

2004 Loud & Clear. AIGA Houston chapter. DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas.

2003 TypeCon 2003, “Counter Culture”. Conference gallery space, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2001 Rebellion Acceptance Overdrive. California Institute of the Arts Type Design 1988-2001,

CalArts, Valencia, California.

2001 TypeCon 2001, “<r>evolution”. Conference gallery space, Rochester, New York.

Selected Traveling Exhibitions

2005-09 Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering & Experimental Typography.

Artscape, Baltimore, Maryland.

2004 Typography 25. Type Directors Club 50th Awards Exhibition. New York, New York.

Also included in an exhibition touring the United States, Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan,

Mexico and Australia.

2002 bukva:raz!. Exhibition in Rome, Italy, during the 2002 annual conference of the Association

Typographique Internationale (ATypI). Also on display in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and New York

(lobby of the United Nations building).

2001 Typography 21. Type Directors Club Awards Exhibition. New York, New York.

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Also included in an exhibition touring the United States, Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan,

Mexico and Australia.

1997 Typography 17. Type Directors Club Awards Exhibition. New York, New York.

Also included in an exhibition touring the United States, Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Japan,

Mexico and Australia.

Selected Publications of Representative Work

2010 Slanted #12 Autumn/Winter, 2010, Published by Lars Harmsen, Ulrich Weiss: Karlsruhe, Germany.

2010 Graphic #16, Winter, Published by Kwangchul Kim: Seoul, Korea.

2010 Typodarium 2011, Published Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz: Mainz, Germany.

2010 Type in Good Shape, Published by The Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany.

2010 Type Rules! The Designers Guide to Professional Typography. 3rd edition. Published by

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey.

2009 TYPO magazine, summer issue 36. Odile & Elido by David Březina. Published by Vydavatel Publisher:

Praha, Czech Republic

2009 Lettering & Type: Creating Letters & Designing Typefaces by Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals.

Published by Princeton Architectural Press: New York, NY

2009 EYE, Golden Age? Deborah Littlejohn, Vol. 18., Spring. Published by Victoria McDougall, edited by John

L. Walters: London, UK

2008 Font. The Sourcebook. Great Women Typographers: Where are They? Teal Triggs asks Sibylle

Hagmann. Published by Black Dog Publishing: London, UK

2008 EYE, Lust and Likeability, various authors, Vol. 16., Spring. Published by Rachael Stilwell,

edited by John L. Walters: London, UK

2008 Idea Magazine, March issue No. 327. Reprint of the Dwiggins article: Dwiggins Revisited Revisité.

Published by Seibundo Shinkosha Co., Ltd: Tokyo, Japan

2008 Metropolis Magazine, March issue. Metropolis Observed: Local Flavors Typography.

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Published by Bellerophon Publications Inc.: New York, NY

2007 PAGE, Typeladys. 12|07. Published by Page Verlag: Hamburg, Germany

2007 Slanted. Das Gefühl der Typografie, What do you think? Interviews zu OpenType and Unicode. #5,

September. Published by Lars Harmsen, Ulrich Weiss: Karlsruhe, Germany

2007 HOW, Special Issue Typography, The birth of Odile by Tamye Riggs. 2|2007.

Published by F+W Publication, Inc.: Cincinnati, OH

2006 Swiss Federal Design Grants 2006, “Selected—Awarded.” Swiss Federal Office of Culture.

Published by Birkhäuser Verlag: Basel, Switzerland.

2006 Specimens; Emigre Fonts Type Specimens, Volume One. Limited Edition. Published by Emigre:

Berkeley, California.

2006 Type Rules! The Designers Guide to Professional Typography. 2nd edition. Published by

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey.

2006 The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2005. Published by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture:

Bern, Switzerland.

2005 Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering & Experimental Typography. Published by Post

Typography, Baltimore, Maryland.

2005 Type One: Discipline and Progress in Typography. Published by the Gestalten Verlag,

Berlin, Germany.

2005 Layout Workbook. Published by Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

2005 1,000 Type Treatments. Published by Quayside Publishing Group, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

2005 Loud & Clear. AIGA Houston chapter. Event catalog, AIGA, Houston, Texas.

2004 Typography 25. The Annual of the Type Directors Club. Published by Watson-Guptill: New York, New York.

2003 Emigre Cholla Font, Promotional Booklet. Published by Emigre: Sacramento, California.

2002 Language Culture Type: International type design in the age of Unicode. Edited by John Berry.

Published by Graphis: New York, New York.

2001 Web Type. Published by Dimensional Illustrators, Inc.: Southampton, New York.

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2000 Typography 21. The Annual of the Type Directors Club. Published by Watson-Guptill: New York, New York.

2000 Page Layout. Duncan Baird Publishers: London, U.K.

1999 Emigre Magazine. Issue #50, spring 1999. Published by Emigre: Sacramento, California.

1997 Typography 17. The Annual of the Type Directors Club. Published by Watson-Guptill: New York, New York.

Awards

2004 Certificate of Typographic Excellence. Type Directors Club, New York, New York.

2004 Mitchell A. Wilder Merit Award for excellence in Publication and Media Design.

Awarded by the Texas Association of Museums.

2004 Honorable Mention for the 2004 Museum Publication Design Competition.

Awarded by the American Association of Museums.

2002 bukva:raz!. International type design competition of the Association Typographique Internationale

(ATypI). Winning entry.

2000 Certificate of Excellence in Type Design. Type Directors Club, New York, New York.

1997 Certificate of Typographic Excellence. Type Directors Club, New York, New York.