Artur Frankowski

Graphic designer, typographer and type designer. Ph.D. from the Warsaw University of Technology on legibility of type (2004). Full-time lecturer on typography and graphic design at the Warsaw University of Technology; also visiting lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and at other colleges in Poland. Co-founder and partner of Fontarte design studio. He has been designing several typefaces — contemporary new designs as well as Polish avant-garde revivals. His typefaces include Grotesk Polski FA, a sans serif companion to Poland’s eminent pre-WWII text face Antykwa Poltawskiego, as well as FA Julian or FA Komunikat, typefaces based on Wladyslaw Strzeminski’s lettering.

In 2006, he developed together with Henryk Sakwerda - Silesiana, an original typeface for Silesia region in Poland. Artur is a co-author (with Magdalena Frankowska) of a book ‘Henryk Berlewi’ (2010) about a precursor of modern typography and graphic design. In 2010, he wrote ‘Typespotting. Warszawa’ a book about letters in urban space of Warsaw.

Artur Frankowski is ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) country delegate for Poland.

Graphic designer, typographer and type designer. Ph.D. from the Warsaw University of Technology on legibility of type (2004). Full-time lecturer on typography and graphic design at the Warsaw University of Technology; also visiting lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and at other colleges in Poland. Co-founder and partner of Fontarte design studio. He has been designing several typefaces — contemporary new designs as well as Polish avant-garde revivals. His typefaces include Grotesk Polski FA, a sans serif companion to Poland’s eminent pre-WWII text face Antykwa Poltawskiego, as well as FA Julian or FA Komunikat, typefaces based on Wladyslaw Strzeminski’s lettering.