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Pascale Schmid is a PhD candidate and sessional academic at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Her research focuses on user-centred typography in flight safety. The outcome of Pascale’s PhD project will be an adjustable typeface for use by commercial pilots in Electronic Flight Bags (electronic application containing checklists, manuals, maps and charts). The typeface will promote maximum legibility and will allow the user to customise its settings according to individual requirements/preferences.

Wayne Thompson is a commercial type designer and design educator. His commercial projects include high-profile typeface designs for Officeworks — which appears online, in those catalogues you find in your letterbox and is prominently branded in outlets throughout Australia — and ABCSans, which appears daily on the mobile and television screens of 20 million+ Australians. Wayne also teaches design and typography at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and has a Masters degree in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK, the world’s most highly regarded type design program.

David Sargent is the Creative Director of Liveworm, a work-integrated learning incubator within the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. As a design researcher, David is interested in how creative practice can engage, communicate, and spark social change. He holds a Doctor of Visual Arts degree from Griffith University and a Postgraduate Certificate in Type Design from Type West, The Letterform Archive. His studio practice focuses on type design, expressive lettering, and disruptive augmented reality, with creative works exhibited in Australian and international galleries.

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