Juan Luis Blanco
Juan Luis Blanco is a graphic designer, type designer and calligrapher based in Zumaia, Spain. He has been working as a freelancer graphic designer from 1997, and in 2013 he attained an MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading. During the MA in Typeface Design he developed Amaikha, a multi-script font family comprising Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Tifinagh.
Currently he combines calligraphy classes with typographic projects, either custom or retail, that focus on the Basque lettering style as well as multi-script typefaces involving the Latin, Arabic, and Tifinagh alphabets. He loves designing typefaces and maintains a healthy balance by rock-climbing.
In 2007 he was awarded the TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence for the multiscript typeface Qandus, a collective project with Kristyan Sarkis and Laura Meseguer.
[Photo by Inaki Moreno]
[Juan Luis Blanco, August 2020]
Twitter: @JuanluB
Fonts designed by Juan Luis Blanco
