Indra Kupferschmid

Indra Kupferschmid is a German typographer and writer, living in Bonn and Saarbrücken at the french border.

After studying visual communication at the Bauhaus-University Weimar and with Fred Smeijers in the Netherlands, she founded her own studio in 1999, mainly designing and editing books for several German speaking publishing houses and cultural institutions; research projects on architecture together with the architect Lars-Christian Uhlig; and typeface development for print and consumer-product interfaces.

Since 1997, Kupferschmid has been teaching typography and type design at various design schools, in 2006, she became professor at the Academy of Fine Art in Saarbrücken.

Her typographic reference book "Buchstaben kommen selten allein" published by Niggli, Switzerland, was awarded one of the best designed books in Germany. She is co-author of Helvetica forever, by Lars Müller Publishers, writes articles, takes part in juries and gives lectures regularly. Currently Kupferschmid is working on a book about choosing and classifying typefaces, which will be published in 2009.