Amy Papaelias is a graphic designer and design educator. In addition to maintaining an active design practice, Amy has been an adjunct instructor at SUNY New Paltz, Marist College, and was Chair of the Graphic Design Program at the University of Bridgeport, 2006 - 2009. Amy has previously spoken at TypeCon in Seattle and New York, and in 2008, spoke at the AIGA Design Educators Conference Social Studies: Educating Designers in a Connected World in Baltimore.

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

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TypeTalk Fonts
SonoType

Amy is a member of AIGA, the professional association for design and the Type Directors Club of New York.

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