Amy Papaelias

Type Nerd, Writer, & Design Educator

Alphabettes Soup:

  • Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches To Type. The book celebrates a decade of feminist approaches to type research, design, and creative community-building. The book blends key articles from Alphabettes platform with original essays, exploring intersections between culture, language, business practices, technology, and type. Launching worldwide in April 2026 with Bikini Books.

    • Speaking:

  • I will be speaking at Typographics 2026 in June 2026, see you there?
  • Alphabettes Soup soft launch at the Bikini Books world headquarters in Porto, April 2026!
  • More Alphabettes Soup launch / speaking events coming soon! Reach out if you're interested in hosting something fun.

    • Recent writings:

  • Read an excerpt of my interview, "Reputations: Veronika Burian" published in the Winter 2026 issue of Eye Magazine.

    • Scholarship Design:

  • What Scholarship Looks Like. An on-going collaborative research project with Jessica Barness on the design of academic journals.
  • Critical Making: Design and the Digital Humanities. A special issue of Visible Language journal. Co-editor with Jessica Barness. Publication: December 2015.

    • About:

    Hello! I'm Amy. I am an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the State University of New York at New Paltz, teaching courses in web and interaction design, as well as 2D design and visual communication. I received my MFA in Intermedia Design from SUNY New Paltz and my Bachelor of Art in English Cultural Studies from McGill University.

    Presentations about my research and design pedagogy include: Type@Cooper West, Typographics, the Type Directors Club, Printing History Association, TypeCon, the AIGA Design Educators Conferences, among others.

    I served on the organizing committee of the AIGA Design Education Conference, Converge: Disciplinarities and Digital Scholarship (University of Southern California, 2017), and participated in One Week | One Tool, an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (George Mason University, 2013). Jessica Barness and I received the 2017 Design Incubation Communication Design Education Award in Published Research for our special issue of Visible Language (49.3).

    I am a founding member of Alphabettes and editor of Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type (Bikini Books, 2026).

    Get In Touch:

    @fontnerd | hello [at] amypapaelias [dot] com | LinkedIn

    Older stuff

    An archive of things from years’ past.

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