Kevin Barrett Kane

A non-exhaustive list of folks and programs who’ve had significant impact in my life, both personally and professionally, whose skills visitors to this website might find useful. I don’t include my handyman, even though he’s really good. These are people I know personally, not just a list of random jabronis I look up to—though I’m slowly trying to change that by meeting them in person.

People

Stephen Coles is the Editorial Director & Associate Curator at Letterform Archive in San Francisco. He also co-publishes Fonts In Use and Typographica and is the author of The Anatomy of Type.

Lori Emerson is the director of the Intermedia Art, Writing, and Performance Program and founding director of the Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado.

Emma Christine Hall is an art director, designer, and educator. She is an art director at Penguin Random House. She is also a certified permaculture designer from the Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA).

Lynne Yun is a NYC-based type designer, educator and technologist. She is a founder of Space Type and Type Electives.

Richard Hendel is a book designer living and working in Chapel Hill, NC. He is the author of two seminal works, On Book Design and Aspects of Contemporary Book Design

John Stevens is a master calligrapher and lettering artist. He is the author of several books, most recently Mastering Brush Roman Capitals.

James Edmonson is a type designer and educator. He is the founder of OHNO Type Co, a foundry that specializes in type that I really want to buy but can hardly ever use.

Joel Swanson is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who serves as the director of the TYPO Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder’s ATLAS Institute, where he works as Associate Professor.

Grendl Löfkvist is a calligrapher, letterpress operator, and blackletter aficionado living in Oakland. She is dean of Type West where she teaches design history. She doesn’t have a website, but you can usually find her anywhere where black cats and really great gothic letterforms hang out.

Laura Serra is an illustrator, letterer, and translator living in Oakland.

Jeremy Tribby is an artist, designer, and technologist. He is the founder of Countertype. He is a type vampyre who is my primary source of Typographic Beef and the latest Piping Hot Tea from the type world.

Libbie Bischoff is a brand & type designer and educator. She is the founder of Type Du Nord.

Nurullah Gokdogan is a leading UX/UI designer with a background in Applied Mathematics and Fine Arts.

Kel Troughton is a type designer, lettering artist, graffiti enthusiast, and educator in Oakland. He is the founder of Overlap Type.

Sumner Stone is a type designer, calligrapher, and educator who served as Adobe’s first Director of Typography.

Zoe Norvell is a book designer and founder of I Need A Book Cover and I Need A Book Interior.

Charles Brock is an award winning book designer and former creative director of Faceout Studio.

Nina Stössinger is a type designer and educator working at Frere-Jones Type in Brooklyn.

Paul Shaw is a renowned type and design historian and calligrapher. He is the author of many books, including Helvetica and the New York City Subway System.

Edward Tufte is a leading scholar on information technology and visual systems. His books and seminars are paramount to many designer’s educations today.

Tim Roberts is a scholarly book designer and full-service production provider through his company, Field Editorial.