Laura Meseguer is a freelance graphic designer and type designer living and working in Barcelona. For more than twenty years she has been working in different advertising agencies and graphic design studios. Now she runs her own studio specialized in book design and any kind of project based on typography, from lettering for monograms and logotypes to custom typefaces.
In 2003–2004, she took a year off from her regular work to study type design at the post-graduate course of Type]Media at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, the Netherlands. Rumba, the typeface she designed as part of this course, was selected in the TDC TypeDesign Competition 2005 and the ATypI Prize Letter.2 in 2011.
Laura was the co-editor of the typographic bulletin TypoRed, with Allan Daastrup, in 2001-2002. She has participated in many exhibitions and conferences in Spain and Europe and is professor of typography at Elisava and at the Master on Advanced Typography at the Eina school of art and design, both in Barcelona.
She is the author of the book TypoMag. Typography in Magazines published by IndexBook and co-author of the book "Cómo crear tipografías. Del boceto a la pantalla published by Tipo e.
She combines the teaching with graphic and type design.
