About

Blast Foundry is the collaboration of two type designers that decided that they would be stronger together. Blast is an independent type foundry providing quality typefaces and font development services.

Blast Foundry

Our team is dedicated to producing high quality work. Our quirky fonts take the front seat on our instagram page, but we are more than often involved in helping other foundries and studios with their font releases. Our reputation of going ‘above and beyond’ has had our clients coming back for more in the last years. We’ve developed strong relationships in helping other foundries such as CoType Foundry, Indian Type Foundry, and most recently Sociotype.

Barbara Bigosińska

¶ Barbara Bigosińska is a type designer and typographer based in The Hague. She received her master degree in Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. In 2010/2011 she was a student-assistant in the Lettering and Typography studio. She is an alumni of Type and Media class of 2012/2013.

Barbara has worked with multiple foundries and type designers, gathering invaluable experience. As a partner at Blast Foundry, she is dedicating herself to expanding the foundry’s library, crafting wonderful type specimens, and attending to custom projects for other foundries.

Diana Ovezea

¶ Diana Ovezea is a Romanian-born type designer and typographer, currently living in Amsterdam. She is an alumni of the Type and Media class of 2013. Diana has worked for and with multiple type foundries in the past, which has founded a broad experience in planning, developing, and proofing font families, as well as designing type specimens.

As a partner at Blast, Diana is dedicating herself to developing new typefaces, catering to custom projects for other foundries and agencies, performing quality control work, and recruiting new clients.

Ethan Nakache

¶ Ethan is a Paris-based type designer who studied typography at La Cambre. He collaborates with multiple foundries, including Blast Foundry, where he helps expand font families, refine production, and ensure seamless type development. His expertise, precision, and good spirit bring both quality and energy to every project.

Marie Santi

Marie is an art director and visual designer who brings our typefaces to life through striking visuals and animations. Her expertise in motion and branding helps shape the way our fonts are presented and experienced.

Lora Shtirkova

Lora is a Bulgarian graphic designer specializing in type design, lettering, and calligraphy. Proficient in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts, she earned her Master's degree from the Type & Media program at KABK in 2022. At Blast Foundry, Lora collaborates as a freelance type designer, contributing her expertise in script localization and quality control.

Sabina Chipară

Sabina is a type and graphic designer with a background in graphic design from Bucharest and a master’s in advanced typography from Barcelona. She collaborates with Blast Foundry, contributing to font expansions and production, combining precision with a thoughtful approach to type design.

Rafał Buchner

¶ Rafał is a type designer and developer based in Warsaw. He collaborated with Blast Foundry on the development of Vanilla Sans and has contributed custom tools to support type production.

More collaborators…

Ben Prangell — lawyer extraordinaire
Guido Ferreyra — web development