Docent Program

Design Action Collective has been her creative and political home for the last 17 years. In addition to her work as a designer, she is part of the coordinating team for the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, teaches Design & Social Change in the University of San Francisco’s Department of Art + Architecture, serves as a member of the Center for Political Education’s advisory board, and is part of Race Forward’s affiliate training team.

Dina Benbrahim (she/they) is a Moroccan multidisciplinary creative, educator, organizer, and researcher who uses an intersectional feminist lens to dissent and investigate design for visibility, civic action, and social justice with minoritized communities to collectively reimagine equitable futures. She has been particularly invested in exploring design histories in North Africa. Among multiple essays she wrote, she is the author of Woven in Oral History: An Incomplete Taxonomy of Amazigh Symbols in the book Centered edited by Kaleena Sales, and A Biased Typographical Collection of Tangier in the book Our Morocco edited by Lucas Peters. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Connecticut and the Director of the Department of Art and Art History’s Design Center (DC). In addition, she is the founder and director of the experimental design program, Hello Departures.

Gives tours in: English, French, Moroccan Arabic

Tanya George (she/her) is a Mumbai-based designer and educator with a wide-ranging freelance practice that includes designing letterforms for brand identities as well as fonts, across different Indian scripts. She also conducts type walks around Mumbai, along with type based workshops, and writes about type.

Gives tours in: English, Hindi

Sidharth Jaishankar (he/him) is a type and graphic designer originally from Chennai, India. Having started reading at a young age, he has wanted to be a writer for as long as he can remember, but somehow got distracted by the design of the books he was reading. He now aims to balance both interests, using writing and research to study the intersection of design with books, language, and culture. He enjoys designing systems, including typefaces, publications, identities, and interfaces. He also likes exploring printing techniques and coding, and holds out hope of writing an epic fantasy novel at some point.

Gives tours in: English, Tamil

Melissa Lee (she/her) delights in learning and exploring alongside Archive guests to see where their curiosity leads. She is a graphic designer focusing on the needs of nonprofits and educational institutions and is particularly interested in improving accessibility. Before circling back to design, she painted sets for the theatre, roamed the South while building homes and doing disaster recovery work, and tried to convince skeptical middle school students that art and math are intertwined. She enjoys the outdoors and drawing letterforms onto vintage postcards for friends and family.

Gives tours in: English

Henrique Nardi (he/him) is a graphic designer, photographer, and typography educator from São Paulo, Brazil. In 2003 Henrique started Tipocracia, an educational project to promote typographic culture in Brazil. He organized and hosted over a dozen conferences on type and design. Former director of ADG Brasil (2011–2013), the Brazilian Graphic Designers Association. In 2015, he served as chair/member of the ATypI São Paulo organizing committee. He taught Graphic, Editorial, and Typeface Design for seven years at the University of Wisconsin. While in Madison, he engaged in a handful of mural projects. In 2023, Henrique joined ATypI’s board of directors and moved to Augusta, Georgia, to take on an Assistant Professor position at Augusta University’s Department of Art & Design.

Gives tours in: English, Portuguese

Milosh Sokolikj (he/him) is a service designer working in the field of social innovation, where he focuses on making innovation processes user-centred and participatory. He also collaborates with non-profits to design branding, print and digital communications that help them share their message and connect with audiences. He loves type because it lies at the intersection of some of his favourite things – design, language, and books, and he looks forward to sharing this excitement with others as a docent at the Letterform Archive.

Gives tours in: English, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, French

Carine Vadet-Perrot (she/her) is a type and graphic designer in Brittany, France. She views letters as a means to connect people and type design as an endless game.
For her, delving into an archive is like traveling through space and time, offering the opportunity to witness genuine vintage items and create a connection between the past and present. This exploration allows us to get a better understanding of the roots of our contemporary world and to imagine new paths. Always ready to embark to new adventures in the letter world, she enjoys expanding her horizons and seeking to understand what at first may look unfamiliar or disconcerting.

Gives tours in: English, French