BiographyGunnlaugur SE Briem is a designer and lives in California. His postgraduate studies in Copenhagen, Basel and London ended with a PhD from the Royal College of Art. And for good measure, he sat a journeyman′s exam at the printer′s trade school in Reykjavìk in 1989.
He took part in the introduction of italic handwriting in his native Iceland, where his method and teaching aids have been tested in classrooms for over twenty years. Some are on his website briem.net. He is on the advisory board of Visible Language, the research journal. He also publishes free e-books on letterforms and related subjects at operina.com.
He has made several typefaces, for the Economist, The Times in Britain, and for general licensing. He has lectured widely in Europe and America, and was Designer in Residence at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990.
He has organized traveling exhibitions of lettering and calligraphy. For a time he ran a calligraphy gallery. He has had several one-man shows of his own work, most recently at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and won a few awards. It′s been fun. | |  Gunnlaugur SE Briem Calligrapher, designer, publisher (California, USA) Author works: |
