Karl Randay is a graphic designer with degrees in Typography and graphic design, specialising in usability, accessibility and multimedia typography. After spending far too long avoiding employment in favour of adding to the letters he can feasibly list after his name, Karl returned to his original course in typography, this time to share the staff lounge with his former lecturers for a brief spell, before feeling the seductive pull of the internet and the challenge of developing a typographic system of design principles for use online.

Karl is the Digital Creative Lead at UK design agency Schmakk and over the years has worked for a range of well-respected agencies and on a distinctive variety of projects, from online content-managed directories for local universities, to major exhibition sites for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and more recently freelancing as the designer for Picture the Cure, an international photography exhibition in Canada aimed at benefiting cancer research.

Karl lives in the cathedral city of Lichfield in the UK with his wife and their hamster Brian, and can be found most weekends either gardening, pottering about with his camera, constantly tweaking his ‘in-progress’ typefaces or avoiding cleaning the car.