After earning a BFA from the Basel School of Design in 1989, Sibylle Hagmann worked for the design firms Eclat and Zintzmeyer & Lux in Zurich, Switzerland. She pursued her interests in typography and type design from a different perspective by completing in 1996 a MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Since then she has worked as a designer and art director for institutional publications and taught typography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 1999 she completed the typeface family Cholla, which was originally commissioned by Art Center College of Design and released by Emigre in the same year. Her work has been featured in several publications and recognized by the Type Directors Club of New York.

Cholla	Cholla