The LucasFonts Team
Based in Berlin, Germany, LucasFonts is a bustling type design studio with a small, dedicated team of designers and type technicians. At times, talented students or graduates are invited to join the team temporarily as intern.
Here are some of the key people who are currently instrumental in producing LucasFonts typefaces or providing service.
Andrea Bobinski, office manager. The person you are most likely to encounter first when contacting LucasFonts. Andrea is fluent in German, English, French and Polish, and has been known to speak Spanish as well. Andrea handles sales as well as public relations and administrative tasks.
Dmitri Sorokin, type engineer. Dmitri was a founding member of FontFabrik when Luc(as) de Groot’s first company was launched in 1997. He has been part of the team ever since, contributing to the finer points in type design and production. Together with Luc(as), Dmitri invented the science of kerning, Kernologica.
Edgar Walthert. Swiss-born Edgar specialized in type design at the Type&Media course of the KABK in The Hague, Luc(as)’s alma mater. He joined the LucasFonts team in 2007 and currently works from the Netherlands as an independent graphic designer and type designer. He has several typefaces waiting in the wings to be released.
Elena Albertoni, type designer. After a thorough education in type and typography in Amiens and Paris, France, Italian-born Elena joined LucasFonts to perfect her type designing and programming skills. She is especially interested in the way OpenType technology can be used to enrich typographic performance. Among her own typeface are the spirited script face Dolce and the Gregoria font for the notation of Gregorian chant, both of which won her awards in the TDC type design competition.
Jan Fromm. A graduate of the University of Applied Science in Potsdam, Jan was enlisted as a LucasFonts collaborator when he was still a student in Luc(as) de Groot’s type designing class at that school. Together with former fellow student Frank Rausch he conceived and designed the current LucasFonts website. His extended sans-serif type family Camingo was MyFonts’ text font of the year 2006.
Niels Poppe, software developer. Niels and Luc(as) met in 1989 while Niels was a DTP operator at Tel Design in The Hague, doing wild things on the side such as programming raw PostScript. They found that their very different viewpoints and skills were wonderfully compatible, and have cooperated in various ways ever since. Niels was involved in setting up the LucasFonts and FontFabrik digital back offices and developed the complex software behind our web shop.
Sylvain Mazas. French-born Sylvain fell in love with type while sketching type he encountered on the streets and while digging up old metal type in different letterpress workshops. Since 2007 Sylvain started to fly to Beirut on a regular basis, improving his Arabic language skills and working on different projects, including, making music, writing books and researching Arabic type. Sylvain now divides his time between working for the mückenschwein publishing house in Stralsund and for LucasFonts as a chef and the dedicated right-to-left specialist.