When I started graduate school back in 2007, I moved out to Hays, Kansas to attend a stellar program. My fellow graduate colleagues were already hard at work on their own projects, while I began my own. Towards the end of my first semester, my friend Dominic Flask came up with a project that he wanted to work on. He loved typography (and who could blame him). He wanted to venture out on his own and start exploring! I have no doubt in my mind he could of completed this entire project on his own (he’s that talented), but instead, he approached our other friend Jennifer Higerd and me. I couldn’t have been more gracious at this opportunity, because I enjoyed typography as much as he did and looked at this as a chance to teach myself everything I could about type since I was deprived of a good type education during my undergraduate years. What developed after this initial conversation was excitement, exhaustion, blood, sweat and tears.

Not only were the three of us preparing for our Thesis shows and fulfilling all the requirements for our MFA degree, we were working on this monumental project. Dom kept us motivated to finish, and after two years of research and designing, we finished the book Typographeee. It is separated into three concise sections: Execution, Exploration, and Experimentation. We each took a 30 page section and crammed in as much as we could. Our goal was to create an abridged history of type without all of that extra information that weighs down what you really need to know. I could go on and on about this wonderful book, or you can click on this link Typographeee.com and check out the entire thing! Thanks to Dom for building the website. If you ‘d like a copy of the book, contact me and I’d be happy to send one your way.