about

Ursula Hitz is an artist and graphic designer. Born in rural Switzerland, she cultivated diverse talents in typography, graphics and cheese making. She moved to London in 2020, here Ursula’s work has focused on location and place. She meticulously creates typographic maps of the world’s best-known cities. Ursula is interested in the ways that letters capture not only the dimensions of a place, but its personality too. Why the passion for place names? ‘I love becoming fixated on their intricacies, before taking a step back and seeing a bigger structure evolve,’ she explains. ‘Unlike regular maps, mine don’t focus on streets or buildings. Instead, they build an organic texture of words that grow from the centre – in the way that most cities have grown.’ Her work is exhibited, featured and reviewed both online and in selected London galleries.

Since 2017 Ursula lives in Arbon, on Lake Constance, with her two daughters. Her latest work reflects this change in location too.

Her typefaces are available at:
fontspring.com, and myfonts.com

Her prints are distributed by:
riseart.com, and saatchionline.com