David W. Shields

Presentation by University of Texas professor David Shields, titled "Preserving the Material Construction of 19th Century Wood Type."

Contact: David Shields dawash@mail.utexas.edu

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David W Shields

Assistant Professor The University of Texas at Austin | United States

David Shields is an Assistant Professor of Design in the Department of Art & Art History at The University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the ut Faculty in 2004, David lived in Brooklyn where he co-founded the design studio Viewers Like You. He is currently focusing on historical and visual research of 19th century typographic form, through investigations of the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection, and the significance that 19th century technical processes can have on contemporary digital type production practices. Shields holds a BFA from Memphis State University and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.... [More]

David ShieldsUniversity of Texas at Austin, Design DivisionPhone: 512.471.0902

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David will give a presentation of ongoing research establishing origins of the Grotesque Italian through investigations of type specimens and printed ephemera.It includes experiments in form to uncover the radical visual construction of the type, clarifies structural correspondence to contemporaneous sources and traces the types influence on later 19th and 20th century type.

David is an Assistant Professor of Design in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.His current research focuses on the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection.He holds a BFA from Memphis State University and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

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