Sibylle Hagmann

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT SIBYLLE HAGMANN

Sibylle Hagmann began her career in Switzerland at the Basel School of Design and explored her passion for anything type related in California, while completing her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). During this time, she developed typefaces, most notably the award winning Cholla family, originally commissioned by Art Center College of Design, and released soon after by the type foundry and publisher Emigre in Cholla was among the winning entries of bukva:raz, the type design competition of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) in 2001.Kontour is a small type foundry run by Sibylle Hagmann and established in She develops type designs with a focus on concept, typographic tradition, and technical quality. The typeface family Odile, first published in 2006, was awarded the Swiss Federal Design Award in the same year. Sibylle Hagmann’s work has been featured in numerous publications and recognized by the Type Directors Club of New York and Japan. Over the years, she presented her work nationally and internationally at typography conferences and educational institutions with occasional workshops. Hagmann has written for Sage Publications (Visual Communication), Typographische Monatsblätter—Swiss Typographic Magazine, IDEA magazine, and contributed indirectly to EYE magazine articles in the past. She is a professor at the University of Houston’s School of Art since 2002. In 2021 Sibylle Hagmann received the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from the Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia.