Thomas Buxó

Typography

A French graphic designer based in Amsterdam, Thomas Buxó founded his own studio after graduating from the Rietveld Academy in 1996 and was awarded the Prix de Rome Basisprijs in 1998. After years of designing mainly printed matter in the fields of art, design or architecture, he is introducing code into his practice through his Headless Design research.

A branch member of OSP Brussels, Buxó is an ardent advocate of Free/Libre Open Source software. He has lectured at ECAL in Lausanne, the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem and was a visiting Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. He teaches Typography and is year lead of the 4th year (graduation year).

In possession of the Certificate Basic Qualification Didactic Competence and Examination (BKE).