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Anna Carolina Laudon was born on march 12, 1971 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Carolina Laudon is a typographic designer and graphic designer. She has been educated in Fine Art at Gerlesborgsskolan school in Stockholm and earned a master’s degree in graphic design at HDK School of Design and Crafts at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where she made her first font.

Carolina Laudon studied Book History, Intellectual properties and Digital information, Practical Design Research. She followed a Higher Education Teacher Training at Linnaeus University. Carolina Laudon worked as a lecturer in typography and type design at the Konstfack University of Arts in Stockholm for seven years.

In 2012, Carolina Laudon received the The Berling Award, which is Sweden’s most prestigious typographic design award and in 2014 she was given The Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture Award.

Laudon Design AB

In 2000, Carolina Laudon launched Laudon Design in Gothenburg, that is an one woman independent type studio. Laudon Design offers custom type design and lettering art, font development, logotype and identity, typography and spreads knowledge about typography and type design. Laudon also has a long record of book design and book typography, custom lettering with monograms, and graphic design work.

Laudon Design produced some of the most used corporate typefaces in Sweden, like Monopoly for Systembolaget, LF for Länsförsäkringar, Rusta Pris for Rusta AB, DN Bodoni and DN Grotesk.

Carolina Laudon also created the typefaces Endure, LTD Vichy, Laudon Stockholm Sans, LTD Pamskrift, LTD Handskrift, LTD Shake, LTD Sthlm Sans, LTD Cartoon, White Dark, LTD Cut.

Sources:

 http://laudon.se/about 

 http://halloffemmes.com/interview/carolina-laudon/ 

 http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-40205.html