People

Michael Isaachsen - Founder and Director

Michael Isaachsen, originally from Adelaide (South Australia), retired from Telecom Australia [now Telstra Corp]. Also Manager of our typefoundry, Australian Type Company. Michael has been a hobby printer since the age of 9 and learnt typecasting about 1978. Michael's other voluntary work is research into the environment and the effects of transportation on it. To avoid road traffic growing to four times its present levels (within less than a hundred years) rail traffic must grow to far more than four times, perhaps twenty times.

Laurie Harding - Volunteer

Laurie Harding is retired hand compositor, volunteer and speculative AFL analyst.

Ray - Volunteer

Ray hails from the badlands of Collingwood – a devoted volunteer and Moreland Street's finest barista (just make sure those Scotch Fingers are toasted!)

Jeff - Volunteer

Jeff is a volunteer at the MMoP

Nick Doslov - Volunteer

Nick Doslov is owner of Renaissance Bookbinding in North Fitzroy, specialising in design bookbinding and restoration. 493 Brunswick Street North Fitzroy 3068 Phone: (03) 9481 8402

Anne - Volunteer

Anne is a volunteer at the MMoP

Jon Campbell – Committee

Jon is an artist who lives and works in Footscray. He graduated from RMIT in 1982 with a BA (painting) and from the VCA in 1985 with a Graduate Diploma (painting). He currently teaches 2 days a week in the Painting department at the VCA. He has exhibited widely both in Australia and overseas and is currently represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney and Uplands Gallery, Melbourne. He migrated with his family from Belfast in 1964. His father was a Monotype Keyboard Operator and came to Australia as part of the team to set up the printing firm Pitman and Sons in North Melbourne.

Marilyn de Castro – Committee

Marilyn graduated from RMIT The Works in 2008 and is currently a practicing graphic designer. Most of her week revolves around type – in studio work and in MMoP activities – and she’d like it to stay that way.

Michael Ebbels – Committee

Michael is a Melbourne based designer who is passionate about contemporary visual communication. Michael's design industry experience has seen him take lead design roles for major cliental. Now Michael pursues his own design practice, Michael Ebbels Design, and lectures sessionally at Monash University in Electronic Design and Design for Web. The MMoP website and online shop, which I can assure you is coming soon, was designed and developed by Michael. www.michaele.com.au

Nick Lam – Committee

Nick is a current member of the MMoP committee

Nick Lauria – Committee

Nick is a current member of the MMoP committee

Cameron Lofthouse – Committee

Cameron is the director of Cameron Lofthouse Design & Other, working on variety of design projects both locally and internationally. He also lectures in design at Swinburne University, Melbourne. Outside of this passion for design lies a huge collection of 20th Century Video game culture. Cameron also helped to design the new MMoP Identity & Open Day Poster and is working on the ongoing communications. cameronlofthouse.com


Scott Lyon – Committee

Scott is a Footscray local and one of the founding members of the committee. His involvement with the museum goes back a few years, and more recently has taken the form of a curatorial and archivist position, documenting all that is printed. Scott also lectures at Swinburne Design, {Swinburne University, at Prahran} heading up the units typography and communication design. His relentless motivation and deep passion for all and everything typographic is contagious!

Nicholas Mau – Committee

Nick is the co-founder and director of Rogue Planet serigraphic print workshop. Rogue Planet is a reference to the Melbourne based political arts collective RedPlanet where Nick was a founding committee member and artist in the early 1990s. As a serigraphic artist, Nick is represented in the permanent collections of the NGA in Canberra, NGV in Melbourne, Art Gallery of WA, State Library of Victoria, State Library of Estonia and the Chaumont Poster Museum, France. He also works as a designer in his interpretive design firm, Mauhaus and teaches into the Communication Design program at Swinburne University, Melbourne.

Daniel Neville – Committee


Daniel Neville wanted to be a scientist as a child. He even started a science group in grade three. Somehow he ended up as a freelance designer. He now writes about design, typography and everything else at nevolution.typepad.com. Having been a volunteer at the museum for a few years now, he sees nothing wrong with polishing wood type for hours on end.

Sakura Nomiyama – Committee

While she was completing her major in the bachelor of Visual communication at Monash University, Sakura started working at MMoP as a volunteer. She found a particular interest in the simplicity of the letterpress printing process and produced a series of prints throughout the sessions along with cataloguing most of the Museums poster fonts. Her first solo exhibition DADADA was exhibited at Monash University in 2008. Sakura is currently in Japan – actively promoting the Museum and working as a designer.

Tiffany Parbs– Committee

Tiffany Parbs is a conceptual jeweller whose practice is aimed towards broadening applications of jewellery. Parbs is fascinated with the changing narrative of skin surfaces and the embellishments the body absorbs over time. Originally trained in Adelaide, she currently lives and works in Melbourne.

Monica Placella - Committee

Monica is a Melbourne based graphic designer specialising in print, publication and typography. Admired for her attention to detail, she is now mastering the art of the many printing facilities at the MMoP. Monica helped to design the new MMoP Identity & Open Day Poster and is working on the ongoing communications. You'll find Monica at MMoP on Wednesday's organising the troops.

Barry Spencer - Committee

Having studied at the National Institute of Design and participated in the ‘Everything in Between’ workshops, Barry now runs his own design and typography business Barry Spencer Design while studying part-time. In 2007 Barry traveled through Europe to gain insight into other cultures histories and perspectives on design and typography, coming into contact with a wealth of information and influential designers. In 2009 Barry returned to part-time education and looking to further his study of Latin letterforms and examine how far a letter can be taken forward or stripped back before it ceases to be a letter and becomes a mark.

Shona Stark - Committee

Shona is currently working as a freelance designer in Melbourne. With a Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) at Monash University, Shona is experienced in many facets of art, fashion and communication design. Shona believes that communication design is not constrained by the parameters of a piece of paper, the idea possibilities are endless. Shona is dedicated to supporting the MMoP and keeping this beautiful age old design technique alive and thriving.

Warren Taylor - Committee

Warren Taylor studied Visual Arts at Newcastle University after spending most of his childhood living in Darwin. Since 1999 he has been a sessional lecturer in Visual Communication at Monash University in Melbourne, whilst maintaining a studio practice designing posters and publications for artists and galleries. Taylor is the founder and director of The Narrows and art director of un.Magazine. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Design in Zürich, Switzerland and the State Library of Victoria.

Tobias Titz - Committee


Tobias was born in Trier, Germany 1973 and is a freelance photographer working and living in Melbourne, Australia. He is also responsible for many of the wonderful images you see on the MMoP website. www.tobiastitz.de

Marc Baker - Student Committee

Marc is Currently finishing his Third year at The Victorian Collage of the Arts Majoring in Painting. He uses text in his work and that is why he is interested in the MMOP.

Vincent Chan - Student Committee

Currently a third-year graphic design student at Monash University, Vincent enjoys most things type-related and hopes to delve into the lonely and ludricrous profession of type design.

Kirsty Ekard - Student Committee

Kirsty is a current member of the MMoP student committee

Jake Turnbull - Student Committee

Jake is a 2nd year Communication Design student from Swinburne University of Technology. He is passionate about turning ideas into reality and likes to work in the printed publication and identity areas of design.

Sarah Wilkinson - Student Committee

Sarah is a current member of the MMoP student committee