Professor Aušra Lisauskienė
Aušra Lisauskienė - Professor at the Graphic Design Department of the Vilnius Academy of Art, is an expert in the fields of communication design, typography, type and book design. Her field of interest is the research and practice of typographic visual phenomena applied in the fields of communication design and new media, and she is a member of the International Typographic Association ATypI and the Lithuanian Design Association LDA.
She has completed internships in Norway (1995), France (2012) and China (2018) and received Lithuanian educational and individual grants in 2004, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2024.
In 1996 she was invited to teach at the Kaunas Faculty of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, in 2002 she joined the Design Department of the Vilnius Faculty, and after the establishment of the Graphic Design Department she was its head from 2010 to 2020. In addition to teaching two levels of students and design practice, she supervises art doctoral students in the field of design, gives lectures at international conferences, participates in and curates exhibitions, gives workshops to students from China, Finland, France, Greece, Poland, Germany, Iceland, Belgium and Ireland, and has been a visiting professor in China and Finland.
Since 2009, she has been the organiser and curator of the international typography biennial "Travelling Letters", which she organises together with the Finnish designer Ritva Leinonen in various European countries.
Her work has been awarded in Lithuania and internationally - Graphis Silver Award (2015), Red Dot Communication Award (2016), ICoD Achievement Award (2022), WOLDA Award (2023), etc. Her work has been published in graphic design books by Rotovision, HarperCollins Publishers, Rockport, How books, Graphis, Eapes, Novum and Artlab. Her work is in the archives of the Museum of Applied Arts and Design and the Poster Museum in Lahti (Finland), the Moravska Gallery (Czech Republic) and in private collections.
