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David Shields
David Shields is an Associate Professor of Design in the Department of Art & Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the UT Faculty in 2004, David lived in Brooklyn where he co-founded the design studio Viewers Like You. He is currently focusing on historical and visual research of 19th century typographic form, through investigations of the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection, and the significance that 19th century technical processes can have on contemporary digital type production practices. Shields holds a BFA from Memphis State University and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Speaker at TypeCon 2008 and 2012. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw where his talk was entitled Muster Hundreds! Towards a people's history of American wood type.. In that talk, he points out that there is currently a great discrepancy between the copiousness of known type designs and the paucity of identified type designers responsible for the creation of this work. His research aims to demystify the history of wood type by providing stories of real lived experience of the type designers of the nineteenth century and bringing their stories into parity with the type designers of this century. |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ https://luc.devroye.org ⦿ https://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |