Writing
Published research focused on typographic topics.
The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: a history and catalog. Austin: The University of Texas Press, April 2022. https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/shields-rob-roy-kelly-american-wood-type-collection
“A History of ‘Aetna’ Typefaces.” Etna. Mark Simonson Studio, 2021. https://etna.marksimonson.com
Measuring the manufacturer’s stamps produced by Hamilton Mfg Co c.1910 – c.1950. Quarantine Public Library, July 2020.
“Antique Tuscans in America.” Blog. Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum. 2017. https://woodtype.org/blogs/news/91-antique-tuscans-in-america
“A cowboy hat and a lab coat: Dafi Kühne in America. ” Dafi Kühne–True Print. Ed. Reto Caduff. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishing, 2017.
“The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection.” The Collections: The University of Texas at Austin. Edited by Andrée Bober. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016. 146–157.
“Unpacking Obscurity.” Lalala: Typografie, Centrifuge en Grootboek. Ed. Melle Hammer. Amsterdam: Raddraaier bk, 2014. 79–85.
“Unit Gothic & Uniform Set Gothic: wood type as precursor.” Slanted, no. 19 (Autumn 2012). http://www.slanted.de/shop/slanted-19-super-families
“Finding the Here-ness of Letters: A Proposal” Design Inquiry Journal, Winter 2011. http://designinquiry.net/journal/uncategorized/1403/finding-the-here-ness-of-letters-a-proposal/
“Foreword to the 2010 Reissue Edition.” Foreword to American Wood Type 1828–1900, by Rob Roy Kelly, 1969. 2nd Reprint ed, Saratoga, California: Liber Apertus Press, 2010.
http://www.liberapertus.com/store/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=12
“Considering Rob Roy Kelly’s American Wood Type Collection: Current Recent Research and Findings.” Printing History, 2nd ser., no. 7 (January 2010).
http://www.printinghistory.org/publications/printing-history/ns-contents.php#8
“Unpacking Obscurity: Categorizing 19th Century Decorative Types.” Design Inquiry Journal, Summer 2009.
http://designinquiry.net/journal/uncategorized/12/test-10/
“Short History of the Italian.” Ultrabold the Journal of St Bride Library, Spring 2008, 22–27.
http://stbride.org/friends/publications/ultrabold