Roman Wilhelm studied communication design at the Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle (Saale). He travelled to China for the first time in 2002, where he began to specialise in bilingual Latin Chinese design and learned Chinese. His diploma project was a travelogue entitled »Daole! Arrived«. Since 2005 he has also worked for INSIDE A Communications AG Potsdam & Beijing and China Intercontinental Press, Beijing. Since 2006 he has been a student in the master class of typography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (Prof. Fred Smeijers). Beginning in April 2008, he will be a lecturer for typography and caligraphy at the Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle (Saale).