Anuthin Wongsunkakon

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Anuthin Wongsunkakon (อนุทิน วงศ์สรรคกร) (Bangkok, Thailand 1973), is a type designer and graphic designer[1]. He learned typography from type designer Tony Dispigna.

Anuthin is one of the founding partners of Behaviour Group Inc. (1998), a design firm based in Bangkok, Thailand and considered Thailand's first design studio with full typographic service. It offers custom type design and specializes in modern Thai letter form. Anuthin is one of a few Thai type designers in the Thai custom type design business. He has been designing Thai custom fonts for major Thai clients like AIS (Thailand's largest mobile phone operator) and Wallpaper* Magazine Thai edition (with Christian Schwartz). He also provided original Thai typefaces for MTV Thailand, Men's Health magazine Thai edition, | magazine Thai edition, SiamSport Publishing PLC and Thai Wattana Panich, two widely known publishing companies in Thailand.

His Latin fonts have been used in local and American magazines such as Blue, Wired and SnowBoarding. Anuthin's fonts have been used on book covers and consumer products including record covers for Matchbox20 and Five for Fighting. His works have created identity for worldwide companies such as Choice Hotel Group. Creative Technology of Singapore enlisted him to design a bitmap font for use on their products.

His typographic work has been recognized by Type Director Club New York.

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