Mark Davis
Type Design And Foundry Growth at WELTKERN®
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMark Davis is a typography-focused graphic designer and typefoundry growth lead with six years of professional experience crafting custom typefaces, brand systems, and cross-channel design for museums, media, and universities. Trained at Cooper Union and mentored at Font Bureau, he brings rare hands-on type design skills—creating retail fonts and bespoke lettering—alongside art direction and production experience from clients like BuzzFeed, NBCUniversal, and the Metropolitan Museum sphere. He runs a long-standing freelance studio that manages teams and delivers print, web, OOH, motion, and interactive marketing tools while stewarding brand typographic systems. Equally comfortable in the production room and the foundry, he has shipped type families, developed interactive font marketing tools, and even designed a novelty political handwriting typeface used in high-visibility election coverage. Based in New York, he combines meticulous craft sensibilities with practical project leadership to grow type businesses and elevate institutional branding.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Certificate Typeface Design, Post Graduate Certificate Typeface Design at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtBachelor's Degree Graphic Design, Bachelor's Degree Graphic Design at Taylor UniversityWheaton Academy
Github Skills (17)
cal10
latin9
google-fonts8
typography8
truetype8
fonts8
typeface7
switch3
phonetics3
scene3
swift2
cyrillic2
bluetooth2
variable-fonts2
open-source1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
calcom/font
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
The home for our Cal Sans font.
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 6 pushes in 1 day
google-fontslatinfontfontscal
keefo/NeewerLite
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
NeewerLite is an un-official Neewer LED light control app for macOS.
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
neewer-lightscontrol-lightslightledbluetooth
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