Ilya Ruderman is a type and graphic designer, educator, and Cyrillic consultant based in Barcelona. He graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts (2002) and earned an MA in Type Design from the Type & Media program at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (2005).

Throughout his career, Ilya has worked with prominent media outlets, including Kommersant, Afisha, Moskovskiye Novosti, and Bolshoy Gorod. He has also served as art director for Afisha city guidebooks and RIA Novosti. From 2007 to 2015, he curated the Type & Typography course at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow.

Since 2008, Ilya has been an active consultant on Cyrillic type design. In 2014, he co-founded CSTM Fonts with Yury Ostromentsky, followed by the opening of the type.today store in 2016, and Tomorrow Type in 2019.