Sometimes ideas appear clearly. Other times, they don’t appear at all. This in-person talk is not about how to have good ideas, nor how to avoid bad ones. It might be about observing how ideas accumulate, overlap, and recycle within a process that is not linear or clean, but rather rhizomatic, irregular, and a bit clumsy. A walk through the unfinished, the failed, and that which does not yet know what it is.
Join us for this in-person talk where Fer Cozzi, a type designer and educator from Buenos Aires, Argentina, will share her current work and research, reflecting on how typefaces take shape through iteration, uncertainty, and the slow buildup of form and meaning.

Fer Cozzi’s work grows from long study, steady practice, and a clear curiosity about how letters behave. She studied at the University of Buenos Aires and completed the CDT Type Design Specialization, later expanding her focus through programs dedicated to Devanagari, Cyrillic, Python for type design, and calligraphy. She works independently and collaborates with studios internationally on custom type, extensions, wordmarks, and typographic consultancy.

Alongside her practice, she has built a substantial teaching presence. She is a professor in the Master in Type Design at the University of Buenos Aires, teaches in Type West Online at Letterform Archive, and leads workshops across Latin America, the United States, and Europe. What makes her teaching compelling is the blend of research and practice she brings into the room. Students who work with her get insight into how contemporary type is made, tested, revised, and understood within a larger cultural context.
She has been part of key studies on Latin American typography and has given talks at ATypI, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, and numerous design festivals, often sharing her process with a mix of rigor and openness. Her projects have received recognition from Gerard Unger Scholarship juries, Modern Cyrillic, Founder Type Design Competition, Sello Buen Diseño, Typographica’s Favorite Typefaces, and Tipos Latinos.
Fer is this year’s HMCT Typographer-in-Residence and will be working on-site at HMCT between February and March developing a project that explores the Latin alphabet as a system of expressive forms. Her research looks at how letters take shape through reading, convention, and gesture, and will result in a variable typographic system shaped by these investigations.