Designer and author Kelcey Gray has been experimenting with and cataloging various ways of making letters with a spirit of curiosity and invention. In this workshop, participants will use familiar and unfamiliar tools to create letterforms, draw with constraints, explore collaborative ways of making letterforms, and use paper as a metaphor for variable type.

Participants will perform some lettering warm-up exercises, explore ways of manipulating and distorting letters, and build folded paper structures that transform the alphabet!

About Kelcey

Kelcey is an Austin, Texas–based graphic designer who spends her time working with words and exploring the possibilities of typography and lettering. She is the author of Let’s Make Letters! and currently teaches design and typography at the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Kelcey received her MFA in Graphic Design at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Throughout her career, she has won several industry awards and been featured in publications like Fast Co., Communication Arts, Under Consideration, Gestalten Books, and "Type on Screen" edited by Ellen Lupton. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, notably at the 2017 London Design Festival.