amy papaelias

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Amy Papaelias is a graphic designer, type nerd and design educator. Currently, Amy is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Foundation at the State University of New York at New Paltz. From 2006 - 2009, Amy was an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. Amy has spoken about design pedagogy and her creative work at national venues, including TypeCon in Seattle (2007) and New York (2005), the AIGA Design Educators Conference Social Studies: Educating Designers in a Connected World in Baltimore (2008) and the UCDA Design Education Summit (2011).

In her professional practice, Amy enjoys collaborating with artists, small businesses and non-profits on designing websites, interactive / printed publications and promotional materials. Want to work with Amy? Do get in touch.

In her creative research, Amy develops experimental typefaces that challenge the arbitrary relationship between verbal and visual communication. A variety of tools are utilized, such as font-editing software, handwriting samples, voice recordings, post-structuralist theory, sociolinguistics and a Speak and Spell. The resulting fonts are visual representations of speech, illustrating the differences and similarities of spoken and written language. This work has been recognized in the pages of Print and Communications Arts, and online at UnBeige, Typographica, I Love Typography, and Design Observer, among many others.

Amy is a member (and SUNY New Paltz Student Chapter Faculty Advisor) of AIGA, and the Type Directors Club of New York.

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