Creative Director, Studio Matthews
Marta Bernstein is a designer, researcher, teacher, and co-founder of the digital type foundry CAST. Born and raised in Milan, she’s now a resident of Seattle, after a brief stop in the Netherlands. She’s the Creative Director at Studio Matthews, where she leads everything from global workplace projects to exhibition design for the Cooper Hewitt in NYC. With a decade-long experience in developing identities across various media, designing exhibitions, and signage systems, type and typography are her true passions and the common threads of all her projects. She has a soft spot for 19th Century type, a topic she’s been researching for more than a decade. She’s given talks at Typographics NYC, ATypI, The Letterform Archive, Typelab, and the Kerning Conference. She is a member of the Nebiolo History Project, a collective of independent researchers aiming to investigate archival evidence of Italy’s most renowned type foundry.Her teaching roles have included being part-time faculty at USC Roski, an adjunct professor in Typography at Milan’s Polytechnic University, a visiting professor in Architecture and Design at the University of Navarra, and a lecturer for the Interior Design master at Tongji University, Shanghai. Marta completed her B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Graphic Design at Milan’s Polytechnic and her M.Des in type design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
