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.
Launch projects:
TypeTalk: Handwriting Fonts With Something to Say
SonoType (a collaboration with Jaanika Peerna)
Personatype: Living Type Specimens (new!)
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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