Katy Mawhood
Lecturer In Graphic Design at Oxford Brookes University
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKaty Mawhood is a design director and educator with over fifteen years' experience creating typographic-first solutions for clients including Google Fonts, The Economist Group and Oxford University Press. She combines research-led analysis with aesthetic clarity to deliver branding, editorial, web and typeface projects, and has led global font policy and licensing initiatives that achieved full compliance across multiple regions. As founder of Squarepeg Co she manages end-to-end creative workflows and stakeholder collaboration, and currently brings that industry practice into academia as a Lecturer in Graphic Design at Oxford Brookes. A specialist in multilingual and historical type requirements, Katy has judged D&AD and contributed to W3C typography guidance, reflecting a rare blend of practical production expertise and standards-level influence.
8 years of coding experience
Advanced Level (A-level) Mathematics (A) Art (A) History (A) French (B), Advanced Level (A-level) Mathematics (A) Art (A) History (A) French (B) at Thurston Community CollegeMaster of Arts (MA) Typeface Design, Master of Arts (MA) Typeface Design at University of Reading
Github Skills (16)
hebrew10
typography9
google-fonts9
slugify9
truetype9
opentype-fonts9
webfonts9
cjk9
fonts9
woff9
opentype8
typeface8
variable-fonts8
internationalization4
w3c3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cs-2019/lab
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
A space to share and discuss lab assignments
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
discusssharelab
KatyMawhood/intro-to-programming
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Files for the 6-week introduction to programming for adults course
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
adultsedtech
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