Shelley Gruendler
Galiano, London, India
Dr Shelley Gruendler is a typographer, designer, and educator who teaches, lectures, and publishes internationally on typography and design. She holds a PhD and an MA in The History and Theory of Typography and Graphic Communication from the University of Reading, England and a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Graphic Design from North Carolina State University, USA. Shelley is a frequent speaker at typography conferences, is proud to live in the Canadian Typographic Archipelago, and, maybe someday, she'll get around to publishing her biography of Beatrice Warde, the doyenne of accessible typographic theory. She is the head of the Advanced Typography program and the Communication and Ideation Design program at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada, and is founding director of Type Camp. 
Marian Bantjes
Galiano 2007/2009
Marian Bantjes is a self-described Typographic Artist. After working as a book typesetter for ten years and a designer for nine, she gave everything up in 2003 to pursue her artistic and typographic obsessions. Her work is complex, structured, sometimes funny and always obsessive. Despite living and working from a small island near Vancouver, Canada, in the past two years she has worked with Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, Saks Fifth Avenue, Young & Rubicam, The Guardian (UK), Wallpaper, WIRED, New York Times Books, Print (“The vivid word” cover from July/Aug 06), and her work has appeared in magazines such as Eye, STEP and Communication Arts. She has been an author on the design weblog Speak Up since 2004, where she writes posts which vary from quirky musings to profane rants. The verdict is not yet in, but she may be living proof of what happens when you follow the love instead of the money.
Stephen Coles
Galiano 2009
Stephen’s obsession with type and lettering wreaks havoc in his daily life where he is routinely tripped by fire hydrants while admiring vintage signs. Fortunately, his freakishness found a home at FontShop where he writes about their collection and advises clients on typeface choices. When he’s not waxing poetic about new fonts, Stephen publishes the blogs Typographica and The Mid-Century Modernist.
Richard Kegler
Book Arts Buffalo 2010
Richard Kegler is the founder and lead designer at P22 type foundry. Before
his involvement in type design, Mr. Kegler was a bookbinder, designer,
postgraduate, artist seeking a respectable self-sustaining life as a
hand-craftsman. The years of historical typographic research at P22 has
influenced a profound interest in using hand techniques alongside digital
capabilities. Mr. Kegler has recently started a non-profit Book Arts Center
in Buffalo NY and has returned to an active involvement in hand setting and
printing metal and wood type as a concurrent career with digital font
research at P22.
Marnie Powers-Torrey
Book Arts Buffalo 2010
Marnie Powers-Torrey is the Managing Director of the Book Arts Program and Red Butte Press at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, where she teaches letterpress printing, artists’ books, photopolymer plate printing, alternative printing techniques, and other book arts for the program. She holds an MFA in photography and BA in English/Philosophy and has taught classes in photography and etching for the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah. She is master printer for the Red Butte Press, which publishes limited-edition books on both hand and cylinder presses, she serves on the board of the College Book Arts Association as Chair of the Awards Committee, and served as co-chair of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers for nine years, and now is the chapter treasurer. As advocate for the presses, Marnie strives to balance respectful use with an exploration of their vast capabilities. Her work is housed in both private and public collections nationally.
Rathna Ramanathan
India 2009
Rathna Ramanathan, principle of Minus9 Design, is from Chennai, India and is currently based in London. She holds a PhD in the History of Graphic Communication and Typography at the University of Reading and an MA in Communication Design from Central St Martins. Rathna has taught design and typography in India and is now the Design Subject Leader on the BA (Hons) graphic design at central St Martins. Her main interest is in typography – as showcased in many of Tara Press’s titles – as well as in the changing form of the book. She is the Association Typographique Internationale [ATypI] Country Delegate for India. A practising designer, Rathna splits her time between India and the UK and her work for Tara Publishing has received a number of international design awards.
Jay Rutherford
Bauhaus 2011
Jay Rutherford studied design in Kingston, Ontario and Halifax, Nova Scotia (with 13 years in between), but learned more on the job doing film stripping, computerized typesetting mark-up (long before DTP), page layout and graphic design. Jay has taught design-related subjects from silk-screen printing to set design to detailed typography and information design, amongst others. After running his own design studio in Canada for some years, Jay ran away to Germany in 1992 to join the MetaDesign circus. There he helped expand the Meta type family and drew an italic for Frutiger Condensed, FF Transit from FontShop. The Meta experience convinced Jay to stay in Germany, where he has been professor of Visual Communications at the Bauhaus University Weimar since 1993. Between 2003 and 2005 he was also Vice-Dean of the Design Faculty at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano in northern Italy.
Tiffany Wardle
Galiano 2008, 2009
“Typegirl”, is a typographer and graphic designer currently living and working in San Jose, California. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Graphic Design from Brigham Young University, she worked in magazine design in New York City. However, the drone of the rat race was too much and the call of teaching was too strong, so she returned to her native Utah to teach as an adjunct professor in Graphic Design at BYU. After a few years, Tiffany changed her life once again when she found she couldn’t resist the lure of graduate school, and promptly moved to Reading, England and earned her Master of Arts in the Theory and History of Typography and Graphic Communication. She hasn’t looked back since. Her words have been published in STEP Inside Design, Interrobang, Indie Fonts III, and TypeCulture. She has been a board member for the Society of Typographic Aficionados and a contributing volunteer for the Association Typographique Internationale.
Dyana Weissman
Galiano 2008
From finding letters among the tiles of bathroom floors as a little kid, to doodling letterforms rather than images while not paying attention in high school, Dyana was destined to be a type designer. While at the Rhode Island School of Design, she got her hands on The Elements of Typographic Style, and it was all over from there. Now working full time at Font Bureau, she is most proud to be on the “Hero Wall” of The Financial Times. Other lucky clients include Newsweek and Saatchi & Saatchi. She has been a speaker at TypeCon and her work has been featured in The Boston Globe and Interrobang. She collects letters and things that look like letters in all sorts of random places, and is probably the only person in America, perhaps even the world, who genuinely enjoys kerning. When not thinking about type, she’s napping, breakdancing, or debating the existence of free will with her co-workers.