The Practical History of Typography

Steven Heller is an author, art director, educator and blogger. For 33 years he was a senior art director at the New York Times, originally at the OpEd page and then the New York Times Book Review. He is the co-chair and co-founder (with Lita Talarico) of the SVA NYC MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program. He co-founded the SVA MFA Products of Design, MFA Interaction and MPS Branding programs. He was the co-director of SVA's Modernism & Eclecticism: A History of Graphic Design symposiums. The author or editor of over 175 books, including Design Literacy, Graphic Design Rants and Raves, Graphic Style, 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design, Typology and the Typography Sketchbooks.

He is the recipient of the 2011 Smithsonian National Design Award for "Design Mind," the 1999 AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement, the 2016 Eric Carle Award, The Society of Illustrator's Art Direction award, The Art Directors Hall of Fame Educators Award, the Pratt Institute Hershel Levit Award and two honorary Ph.Ds from College of Creative Studies in Detroit and the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic. He has appeared in over 20 documentaries on design and political art and has written over 100 introductions and forewords for books on design and illustration.

Angela Riechers is an award-winning writer, art director, and educator. She writes primarily for design-related publications, including Monotype Recorder, Print/HOW, Wallpaper, AIGA Eye on Design, Metropolis, and Design Observer. Over the course of her career as an editorial art director, Angela designed and contributed to a number of national magazines including Harper’s, O the Oprah Magazine, the New York Times T Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, and More, to name a few. She teaches typography and Design and Visual Culture at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the School of Visual Arts, and previously taught graphic design and architectural criticism at the City College of New York and New York University. Angela is the recipient of an AOL Artists grant for Sites of Memory, a multimedia project that reattaches forgotten narratives to their original locations in New York City through audio guided walking tours and map-based archives. In 2014 she developed and launched Typography as Language for SVA, a four week summer intensive in typeface design now entering its fourth year.

Ina Saltz is an art director, author and professor (at The City College of New York) whose areas of expertise are typography and editorial publication design. Ina is the author of the lynda.com course series "Foundations of Typography." Her book "Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type" is in five languages, and her "Body Type" book series photographically documents typographic tattoos. Ina is a co-author of "Typography Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History and Practice of Typography."

A graduate of Cooper Union, Ina served as the Design Director at TIME magazine's international editions and is a three time board member of the Type Directors Club. She is a well-known denizen of the alternate universe of deep type geeks.

Dan Rhatigan works with Adobe Typekit in New York as the Senior Manager of Adobe Type. He has over 25 years of eclectic experience in various industries as a typesetter, graphic designer, typeface designer, and teacher, including several years in London and New York serving as Type Director for Monotype. He has a BFA in graphic design from Boston University, and MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in the UK, and a very tattered passport.

Gail Anderson is a designer, writer, and educator. She is currently the Creative Director of the Visual Arts Press at SVA. From 2002 through 2010, Anderson served as Creative Director of Design at SpotCo, creating artwork for Broadway and institutional theater. From 1987 to early 2002, she worked at Rolling Stone, as designer, deputy art director, and finally, as the magazine’s senior art director. Anderson is co-author, with Steven Heller, of over a dozen books on design and typography, and she has taught at the School of Visual Arts for over 25 years. Anderson is the recipient of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Medal from the AIGA, and serves on the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee for the USPS.