Jeffery Keedy
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Jeffery Keedy is an American graphic designer, type designer, writer and educator.

Keedy has been teaching design at the California Institute of the Arts
California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

 (CalArts) since 1985. http://www.calarts.edu/schools/art/faculty/keedy.html Keedy was also a frequent contributor to Emigre magazine throughout the twenty years of its publication. His designs and essays have been published in Eye, I.D., Emigre, Critique, Idea, Looking Closer One and Two, Faces on the Edge: Type in the Digital Age, New Design: Los Angeles and The Education of a Graphic Designer.

His typeface Keedy Sans, designed in 1989, is distributed through Emigre Fonts. http://www.emigre.com/EF.php?fid=100

Keedy graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1985.

Books

  • With Rudy VanderLans
    Rudy VanderLans
    Rudy VanderLans is a Dutch type and graphic designer and the co-founder of Emigre, an independent type foundry.VanderLans studied at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. Later, he moved to California and studied photography at the University of California, Berkeley...

    , Zuzana Licko
    Zuzana Licko
    Zuzana Licko is a typeface designer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.Licko came to the United States when she was a child along with her family...

    , Mary E. Gray, Emigre: Graphic Design into the Digital Realm, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. (ISBN 978-0442013806)

Articles

  • Graphic Design in the Postmodern Era, Emigre 47: Relocating Design, edited by Rudy VanderLans
    Rudy VanderLans
    Rudy VanderLans is a Dutch type and graphic designer and the co-founder of Emigre, an independent type foundry.VanderLans studied at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. Later, he moved to California and studied photography at the University of California, Berkeley...

    , 1998. http://www.emigre.com/EMag.php?issue=47 (Full text available online. http://www.emigre.com/Editorial.php?sect=1&id=20)
  • The Rules of Typography According to (Crackpots) Experts, Eye
    Eye (magazine)
    Eye Magazine, The International Review of Graphic Design is a quarterly print magazine on graphic design and visual culture.- History :...

    , No. 11, Vol. 3, edited by Rick Poynor
    Rick Poynor
    Rick Poynor is a British writer on design, graphic design, typography and visual culture. He began as a general visual arts journalist, working on Blueprint magazine in London. After founding Eye magazine , which he edited from 1990 to 1997, he focused increasingly on visual communication...

    , Wordsearch Ltd, London, 1993.

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See also

  • First Things First 2000 manifesto
    First things first 2000 Manifesto
    The First Things First 2000 manifesto, launched by Adbusters magazine in 1999, was an updated version of the earlier First Things First manifesto written and published in 1964 by Ken Garland, a British designer....

  • Emigre
    Emigre magazine
    Emigre was a graphic design magazine published by Emigre Graphics between 1984 and 2005; it was first published in 1984 in San Francisco, California, USA...

     51: First Things First, 1999. http://www.emigre.com/EMag.php?issue=51
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