Education

M.F.A. Design: Visual Communications,
Virginia Commonwealth University
B.S. Industrial Management / Graphic Communications Management,
Carnegie Mellon University

KCWorks

Publications

“A Manual of Hand-made Modernism,” Eye: The International
Review of Graphic Design, London, UK; No. 92, Summer 2016.
http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/a-manual-of-hand-made-modernism

“Aspects of Transit Map Design,” Parsons Journal for
Information Mapping; Vol. 2, Issue 3, 2010. http://wayback.archive-it.org/6757/20160302160905/http://piim.newschool.edu/journal/issues/2010/03/index.php

“Legibility and Readability Study,” co-author of typography
exercise with Ilene Strizver in Type Rules!, 2nd ed., John
Wiley & Sons; Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

“Typefaces as Film Stars,” Communication Arts; Vol. 47, No. 6,
November 2005.

“Blacklettering,” Circular 13, The Typographic Circle; London,
UK, 2005.

Typography exercise, in compilation by Claire Hartten,
“Teaching Typography: Integrating the Old and the New,” The
Education of a Typographer, Steven Heller, editor; Allworth
Press; New York, NY, 2004.

“Typocurious,” essay in Indie Fonts 2, Richard Kegler, James
Grieshaber, and Tamye Riggs, editors, P-Type Publications;
Buffalo, NY, 2003.

La letra gótica: tipo e identidad nacional, co-author and
co-editor with Paul Shaw, combined “Blackletter: Type and
National Identity” exhibition catalog and monograph in
Spanish. Translation by Esther Monzó Nebot, with Francesc
Xavier Llopis, linguistic advisor, and reference appendices by
Campgráfic. Campgráfic Editors; Valencia, Spain, 2001.

Book review of “American Proprietary Typefaces,” by David
Pankow, editor, in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of
America; Vol. 93, No. 4, December 1999.

“Blackletter: Type and National Identity,” Printing History:
The Journal of the American Printing History Association;
double issue 38/39, Vol. 19, No. 2 and Vol. 20, No. 1, 1999.
Co-author with Paul Shaw, catalog of exhibition at the Herb
Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, School of
Art, The Cooper Union; New York, NY.

Blackletter: Type and National Identity, co-editor with Paul
Shaw, separate monograph accompanying exhibition at the
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography; The
Cooper Union and Princeton Architectural Press; New York,
NY, 1998.

“Exploring Type Calligraphically,” Society of Scribes Journal;
New York, NY, Volume 1, No. 5, December, 1995.

“Type on TV,” ADC: The Newsletter of the Art Directors Club;
New York, NY, Winter 1994.

Projects

Script Teaching Handouts:
Italic and roundhand comparison, simple italic written model, cursive script “drawn skeleton” model

Type@Cooper, April 2021, Online Lecture on Handlettering and Bibliography:
Video: Rendering 25 Years
Bibliography for Rendering 25 Years

ATypI 2020 All Over, Online Lettering Workshop, Complete Resources:
Anti-Typo: The Wide Pen as Privilege/Appropriation/Pluriversal Practice

Design Inquiry 2012, “FastForward”:
Car, Driver, Landscape

“Display Phototype,” 2003 Hidden Typography presentation:
display-phototype-new-york-folks-firms-fonts

Memberships

AIGA (aiga.org), APHA (American Printing History Association, printinghistory.org), ATypI (atypi.org), TDC (tdc.org)

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