Cyrus Highsmith is a multi-talented creative who is a letter drawer, teacher, author, and graphic artist. He teaches type design at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and is the author and illustrator of the acclaimed primer Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals. He has been recognized with the prestigious Gerrit Noordzij Prize in 2015 for his extraordinary contributions to the fields of type design, typography, and type education. Cyrus founded Occupant Fonts in 2015 and joined Morisawa in 2017 to be the Japanese type company’s Latin alphabet counterpart, becoming Creative Director for Latin Type Development at Morisawa USA.   Occupant Font’s website: https://occupantfonts.com/ Podcast created, recorded and edited by Cristina Lopes: https://cristinalopesdesign.com