2025 Typographer-in Residence: Yara Khoury Nammour
Congratulations to Yara Khoury Nammour, our 2025 Typographer-in-Residence! Yara’s submission was chosen by our selection committee from an unprecedented amount of applications received this year. Yara is a designer, educator, and author from Lebanon, assistant professor of graphic design at the American University of Beirut (AUB), leads the Arabic Type Research Unit focusing on practice-based research. She co-organizes the biennial Mashq conference at AUB working to advance Arabic type and typography (mashqconference.org). She authored Nasri Khattar: A Modernist Typotect (Khatt Books, 2014) and previously served as design director for AlMohtaraf design house in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for
Call for Proposals!
Typographer-in-Residence 2025 The HMCT invites artists, designers, researchers, and educators to apply for a four-week, in-studio residency in Pasadena, California. This program is designed to support the development and continuation of a proposed project, allowing the resident to explore the significance of language and typography within their professional practice or personal research. Duration: Four weeks to be scheduled between February–March 2025 Location: HMCT, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, California Application Deadline: May 31, 2024 For more information and to apply, click here. Image: Page from All Roads Lead to Roman by Thomas Huot-Marchand, 2019 HMCT Typographer-in-Residence
A Visit to Tipoteca in Italy
HMCT Creative Director Simon Johnston—renowned graphic designer, typographer, and long-time professor at ArtCenter—is also a dedicated letterpress printer. Here he shares a diary of his recent trip to the famed Tipoteca Foundation. About two hours north of Venice, in the town of Cornuda, where the Tipoteca Italia Foundation is situated, canals are still very much in evidence. The water in the main Brentella canal running through town flows at a pretty good pace (in fact a fast walking pace—I tested it) and was used to generate electricity for the adjacent industrial complex called Canapificio Veneto, inaugurated in 1883. It
The Daily Heller on Quasi
The October 13, 2023 edition of Print magazine’s The Daily Heller features a sneak peek at the upcoming HMCT Gallery fall exhibition, Quasi: Experimental Writing Systems. Access the full article here.  
John van Hamersveld: A Sun of Many Colors
HMCT is pleased to present an article paying homage to iconic SoCal designer John van Hamersveld, written by renowned designer, educator (currently a professor at CalArts) and friend of HMCT Louise Sandhaus. Over the last decade or so, John van Hamersveld (JvH) and I have been corresponding. I first reached out to him at the dawn of working on my book, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots. The exact shape of that project was a fuzzy blob in my head at the time; what was understood to be “California graphic design” wasn’t certain. But, still, something as iconic as John
Catalog review: The Daily Heller
HMCT’s catalog of our 2021 HMCT Typographers-in-Residence program, Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía (Hispanic Women and Typography), was recently reviewed by renowned author and designer Steven Heller in his engaging blog The Daily Heller. Highlighting the talents and contributions of five Hispanic women designers, researchers, and educators to graphic design and typography, the catalog reflects the influences that individual cultures and histories had on their investigations. Included is the work of Sandra García and Dafne Martínez (Colombia and Mexico), Laura Meseguer (Spain), Marina Garone Gravier (Argentina/Mexico), and Jimena Gamio (Peru/Los Angeles). Celebrating the histories and cultures of Spain, Mexico, the

CONTACT / LOCATION

+1 626 396 4343
hmct@artcenter.edu
950 S. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91105

RELATED LINKS

FOLLOW US

Copyright 2025 © All rights Reserved. ​Hosting provided by Digital Housing and Administration, LLC.
Site design by Amara Grimes Design.

HOURS

The HMCT (South Campus) Gallery is free and open to the public. It is accessible when school is in term, seven days a week from 9 AM to 7 PM. The Storefront Gallery, located within the Center, is also free and open to the public most weekdays from 10 AM to 4 PM. (We advise you to call ahead to make sure the Storefront Gallery is open, 626-396-4343 ).

LOCATION

950 South Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, California 91105