Speaker Karen Cheng

Karen Cheng is Associate Professor in the Visual Communication Design program at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she teaches type design and typography. She was previously an instructor at the School of Design at the University of Cincinnati, where she received her Master’s degree in Graphic Design. Karen is an active practitioner whose design work has been recognized and published by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Communication Arts, Print, Critique, I.D. Magazine, the American Center for Design, P.I.E. Tokyo, and Rockport Publishers. She has won multiple gold and silver medals from the Society for Publication Design and the University and College Designers Association. Her book, Designing Type, was published in 2006 by Laurence King (U.K.) and Yale University Press (U.S.)