Alessio Leonardi

Alessio Leonardi is a Professor for Visual Communication with a focus on illustration at HAWK Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen since 2010. He has held guest professorships for typography at HBK Saarbrücken and corporate/information design at HKD Burg Giebichenstein Halle. His career spans leading roles in design agencies like MetaDesign and Drews Design, co-founding independent font labels (Face2Face, Fontology), and developing the online font platform BuyMyFonts.com.

• PhD Advising: Not explicitly mentioned
• Research Focus: Typeface design, visual communication, information design, and design history
• Publications: Authored books including From the cow to the typewriter (2004) and A Line of Type (2006), and comic books like Mr. Typo and the lost letters (2008)