Full Name
David Shields
Job Title
Associate Professor
Company
Virginia Commonwealth University
Speaker Bio
David Shields is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the School of the Arts, at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
An active scholar researching the typographic history of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, he is currently finalizing a monograph focused on the Rob Roy Kelly’s American Wood Type Collection to be published by UT Press in early 2022. His writing has been published in Slanted Magazine, Printing History, Design Inquiry Journal, and Ultrabold the Journal of the St Bride Library. He keeps a (slow) blog of his research at Wood Type Research (www.woodtyperesearch.com), 144-character missives on Twitter (@19cWT), and image forward micro-blogging on Instagram (@19cWT). He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
An active scholar researching the typographic history of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, he is currently finalizing a monograph focused on the Rob Roy Kelly’s American Wood Type Collection to be published by UT Press in early 2022. His writing has been published in Slanted Magazine, Printing History, Design Inquiry Journal, and Ultrabold the Journal of the St Bride Library. He keeps a (slow) blog of his research at Wood Type Research (www.woodtyperesearch.com), 144-character missives on Twitter (@19cWT), and image forward micro-blogging on Instagram (@19cWT). He received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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