Wednesday, May 28
6–9PM
Public Works Gallery
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Join us for Cold Style, a casual evening of lettering and typeface design in Chicago.
After the success of our first discussion in February, we are returning to spend time discussing typography design and celebrating community in an intimate setting with a range of featured designers who share their processes and work.
Featured Designers
Sean Fermoyle is a seasoned graphic designer and art director with nearly 30 years of experience crafting compelling brand identities. His work is rooted in strategy and cohesion, driven by a belief that thoughtful evolution—not trend-chasing—is the foundation of enduring design. Over the years, he’s helped a wide range of clients articulate their voice through distinctive visual systems, always with an eye toward clarity, consistency, and long-term relevance.
Outside of client work, Sean is a lifelong enthusiast of type design, often spending off-hours “sketching” letterforms or refining experimental fonts. Self-initiated projects have always been a creative cornerstone for him—a way to stay curious, sharpen his skills, and return to the joy of making simply for the sake of it.
He lives with his wife and their two kids, and treasures the rhythm of weekends spent together. Every now and then, if the stars align and a Friday night is free, he retreats to his garage with a couple beers, a sketchbook, and his laptop. Alone. Like all “real” artists do. Where he’ll just end up watching YouTube clips for the rest of the night, and updating his “socials”.
Betsy Schuster is a type designer and artist from Detroit, Michigan. His work centers on pushing boundaries, exploring logical extremes, and using type as a means of queer expression. Since graduating from TypeMedia in 2024, he has been developing his type design practice through collaborations and by seeking connections with other disciplines.
Amira Hegazy makes images, objects, books, and texts. Based in Chicago, Illinois, she teaches design practice and theory at the University of Illinois Chicago. She is the curator of Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types at the Design Museum of Chicago, on view November 2024 – April 2025. This exhibition looks at typography in Chicago’s neighborhoods to investigate design legacies and their contemporary echoes, especially considering alternative modernisms and love as an organizing principle. Her art and design work have been featured in many venues internationally including the International Print Center New York, The Grolier Club, The William King Museum of Art, and Hyde Park Art Center. She is the proprietor of the design and publishing imprint, {a]mirror.
Jon Mills is an artist and designer quasi-obsessed with letterforms. Drawn to color play, texture, and pattern, his work is bold, energetic, and mostly loud. He moves between digital and traditional mediums—never sticking to just one. Born and raised in Chicago, Jon grew up on comic books and LEGO, dreaming of becoming an architect by age five. In middle school, Jon found graffiti—and it became a defining force in his life. It shaped his worldview, influenced his aesthetic, and fueled his creative drive—all rooted in freedom, equality, human rights, and anti-authority. His long-standing relationship with letterforms—from comic book logos to cereal boxes to graffiti to animated H1’s—sparked a deep interest in typography. In recent years, type has become the driving force in his work. Finding both subjectivity and abstraction in the same source material has brought a new level of focus and excitement to his personal practice.
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Special thanks to Someoddpilot for the space and hospitality and the organizers Alexis Gonzalez, Cris Hernandez, and Christian Solorzano.
