Panuwat Usakulwattana

Panuwat Usakulwattana is a graphic designer, lettering artist, type design and writer on typography related content. He earned BFA in Communication Design from Bangkok University. He made the debut to the type scene with his senior project on the study of relationship between Dyslexia and Type Design. The project won first prize of Degree Show 2012 which landed him an opportunity to present at BITS MMXII.

Parallel with his time at School of Fine and Applied Art, Bangkok University, Panuwat spent most of his late teen exploring video production with his pals under the group named “Jettana” making music video and TV commercial. He decided to shift his focus to Graphic Design and took a full time position as a graphic designer at Conscious where he reunited with his passion about type and typography. Panuwat joined Cadson Demak in 2012 and took on a challenges as a type designer.

Beside being a type designer, he also writes about Typography and Type Design for anuthin.org and currently serves as the editor. Recently, Panuwat is the team leader of the “Totem” establishment project. A new activity created by Cadson Demak in order to promote young Thai Type Designers and help them achieve their goal. 

Born in Nakorn Sri Thammaraj, southern province of Thailand but currently lives and works in Bangkok. He regularly visits his hometown to escape from the big city. He likes to learn something new all the time so it is very common to see Panuwat travels around the country with a bunch of good books in his knapsack.