Prof. Alessio Leonardi

Visual communication

1965

• Born in Florence, Italy

1985 - 1990

• ISIA Urbino, Diploma in Visual Communication

1991

• MetaDesign, Berlin, Stage

1991 - 1992

• Drews Design, Berlin, Designer

1992

• First own font published at FontShop International

1992 - 1993

• MetaDesign, Berlin, Designer

1994

• xplicit, Frankfurt Main, Designer

1994 - 1996

• more fonts published at Linotype

1994

• Co-founder of Face2Face, indipendent font label

1994 - 1995

• Homestudio, Berlin

1996

• Co-founder of Fontology, indipendent font label

1995 - 1997

• agorà information design, Berlin, Partner

1997 - 2005

• Leonardi.Wollein Visual Concepts, Berlin, Partner

seit 2001

• Country delegate of ATypI, Association Typographique International, for Italy

2002

• Founding BuyMyFonts.com, Fontlabel and Online shop

since 2005

• Lion&Bee, Berlin, Partner

Other activities

since 1994

• Lectures at international design conferences
• Publication of articles in national and international design and typography magazines
• Publication of the books "From the cow to the typewriter: the (true) history of writing" (2004) and "A Line of Type. 120 years of typographic history" (2006)
• Publication of the comic books "Mr. Typo and the lost letters" (2008) and "How passion ruins our lives" (2010).
• Guest and substitute professor for corporate and information design at the HKD Burg Giebichenstein in Halle
• Guest professor for typography at the HBK in Saarbrücken

since 2010

• Professor for visual communication with focus on illustration at the HAWK in Hildesheim