Studio

Wei Huang is a Chinese-born Australian designer formerly based in the Schengen Zone. Wei designs, produces, and engineers fonts… and occasionally uses them too. He has created type design plug-ins with Dinamo and is currently working on a few new typefaces with the foundry. Aside from type-related activities, Wei is currently undertaking the 5/3/1 powerlifting program.

Omnigroup is a graphic and type studio based in Lausanne, Switzerland, run by the Venice-born Leonardo Azzolin and German-born Simon Mager. Leonardo and Simon met Fabian and Johannes while working as teaching assistants at ECAL in 2016, where they quickly realized they share a common interest in type and furniture design. Since 2018, Omingroup and Dinamo have been working on a project together, centered on their shared interest in the Swiss designer and teacher Walter Käch.

Mingoo Yoon is a graphic and type designer based in Seoul, South Korea. He met Johannes in Seoul in 2016, when they had a lengthy conversation about new possibilities for Hangul typefaces. A few years later, Mingoo began work on Favorit Hangul, a Hangul extension of Dinamo’s Favorit. Currently, Mingoo works as a bi-scriptual typeface designer and teaches at the local arts university.

Tabitha Swanson is a designer and creative technologist who appears to belong to a new online race. She presents herself as a migrant from a virtual world, using 3D rendering, AR face filters, and synthetic makeup on her own body. Tabitha and Dinamo first collaborated together on the t¥p3w0rld facefilter, which allows users to transport themselves to a whimsical world of 3D letterforms.

Moritz Tontsch is a motion and media artist working in the extended realities of AR and VR. With Dinamo, that’s taken the form of translating memes into face filters. Moritz is currently leading a course at the University of the Arts in Berlin on AR face filters, and he continues to investigate the socio-cultural implications of the pervasive ironic styles visible in various contemporary aesthetic practices.

Sam de Groot is a graphic designer, teacher, and occasional publisher-slash-musician based in Amsterdam. He has worked on a few custom typefaces with Dinamo, one of which is currently being redeveloped for a commercial release. Currently (or, corona currently) Sam is trying to catch up on work whenever his four-year-old twins are napping.

Actual Source is an American graphic design studio, publisher, and book store founded by Davis Ngarupe and JP Haynie. It’s currently based in Utah, and first collaborated with Dinamo for issue five of its 'Shoplifters' magazine. Dinamo designed a typeface for the issue called CCTV, which Actual Source later adopted as the typeface for its own visual identity.

Chi-Long Trieu is the brains behind the engineering of pretty much every Dinamo release. Chi first met Johannes in Amsterdam—to give him a bike—and then the pair serendipitously met again a year later at a gathering for type enthusiasts in London. After Chi left his job at Optimo Type in 2016 and flew to New York, he hung out with Johannes for 10 consecutive days. Since then, he’s been Dinamo’s trusted Font Engineer.

Hardworking Goodlooking was established in 2013 as a publishing hauz devoted to the decolonization of tropical aesthetics, vernacular artisanship, and the value of the invisible. It is composed of Clara Balaguer, a cultural worker in the Netherlands; Kristian Henson and Dante Carlos, graphic designers in the United States; and Czar Kristoff, an artist in the Philippines. HWGL is an offshoot of the Office of Culture and Design, a platform for cultural social practice that was founded in 2010, based in Parañaque City, and laid to rest in 2018.

Manuel Rossner is a Berlin-based artist and designer who works on digital environments. In 2019, he founded Hightype, a foundry specializing and focused on three-dimensional typefaces. Hightype’s first font, HT Standard, was made in collaboration with Dinamo.

Daniel Wenzel specializes in utilizing animation-tools and code for the fields of graphic and type design. He is usually involved in the Dinamo projects that challenge the static nature of typefaces, for example, typefaces that use variable font technology or take the form of gifs. Most recently, he’s worked on Ginto’s variable iteration, and is currently finalizing an upcoming project called Hot News.

Jakub Straka is an art director and graphic designer originally from a city of miners: Ostrava, Czech Republic. After spending almost a decade in Amsterdam, where he met J & F while studying at Rietveld Academie, he re-settled in Prague after getting an opportunity to launch VOGUE Czechoslovakia, where he works as an art director to this day. Jakub used to code (he was co-author of the first two Dinamo websites), but now he’s pursuing his new-found interest in fashion photography.