TYPO Speaker

Boris Kochan

Boris Kochan

Boris Kochan is designer and entrepreneur, publisher, consultant and founder of the branding agency Kochan & Partner. Following his training in layout and typography, he gained professional experience in journalism at the German daily, Süddeutsche Zeitung, in a typesetting studio and in a lithography department. In 1981, Boris Kochan, together with friends, co-founded a studio for graphic design and text, adding the departments of type setting and lithography two years later. In 1989, Zelig-Druck was added, and in 1995 the interactive unit Peppermind became part of the group. With more than 60 employees, Kochan & Partner is one of the 10 largest owner-managed agencies for branding in Germany. Boris Kochan is chairman of the Granshan type design competition and part of the jury of numerous competitions of typography and design. In April 2007, he was elected chairman of the Typographische Gesellschaft München, in June 2007 he was appointed to the German Committee of the Type Directors Club of New York and in 2011 he became a board member at iF Industrie Forum Design e.V.

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