Join Mooniak founder and co-curator Pathum Egodawatta of the Akurugraphy exhibition for a behind-the-scenes look into the world of typography on this exhibition tour. This tour will include a demonstration of the antique Albion Press, currently on show at the exhibition.
Mooniak is a Colombo-based graphic design firm and type foundry working at the intersection of culture, typography, design, and identity.
The team leading the tour includes Pathum, a typeface designer, font engineer, and typography researcher, and Sajaan Peiris, curator of the W A Silva Museum for Language, Literature and Typography.
‘Akurugraphy’ is supported by generous grants from Kohler India, the Initiating Partner for the Geoffrey Bawa Trust’s exhibitions programme, and Sampath Bank Private Banking for the exhibition’s public programme.
Pathum is a typeface designer, font engineer and a researcher of typography. He specializes in type and typography of South Asian scripts with a focus on Sinhala and Tamil scripts and multilingual communications. Pathum received his MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading with a distinction in 2016 and a BA in Graphic Design from the Academy of Design (AOD), Colombo with a distinction in 2013. He is currently based in Colombo, Sri Lanka leading Mooniak – a multidisciplinary design, art direction and technology practice with an emphasis on type. Pathum and the team provides consulting on South Indian script related localisation, type design, typography and multilingual communication. He is also the co-founder of Akuru Collective and Curator at W.A. Silva Museum & Printing Press.