Bill Davis

Bill Davis is a principal of Ascender Corporation, a digital type design firm and consultancy clients include Microsoft. Many of the fonts included in different versions of the Windows operating system. Ascender is actively involved in improving the legibility and readability of fonts for hand-held personal digital assistants.

Allan Haley

Although many designers know Allan Haley from the days when he edited U&lc, the popular design tabloid published by the International Typeface Corporation, Allan is best known for the contributions he has made to typeface designers through font sites like Fonts.com and ITC.com websites. Allan also formerly Graphic Solutions newsletter, and has published numerous books, including Typographic Milestones and his articles in design publications like How and Dynamic Graphic.

Catherine "Cat" Morley

Catherine Morley is at the center of an internationally known graphic design community. She edits several design blogs, including www.designers-who-blog.com and BoDo, the Business of Design online. She is also on the management team of Creative Latitude, an international design team.

Roger C. Parker

Roger C. Parker is a writer and designer whose best-selling Looking Good in Print: A Guide to Basic Design for Desktop Publishing has launched hundreds of thousands of design careers. Roger’s latest book is Design to Sell (www.designtosellonline.com).

His 38 books have been purchased by over 1.6 million readers in over 37 countries! His books have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. As a 32 Million Dollar author, Roger balances his continuing interest in design with mentoring first-time authors at www.publishedandprofitable.com.

Susan G. Wheeler

Susan Wheeler is a graphic design educator and co-author of The Digital Design Primer and TypeSense: Making Sense of Type on the Computer, now in its third edition. Both have been widely praised by design professionals and non-designers alike for the quality of their presentation.

Alexander W. White

Alexander W. White is leading New York City graphic design educator, practicing designer, and typographer. He is the author of numerous design titles, including the highly acclaimed Advertising Design and Typography, Type in Use, Thinking In Type and The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type. His current activities are displayed on his website.

Jan V. White

Before he wrote his classic Editing by Design: For Designers, Art Directors, and Writers—The Classic Guide To Winning Readers, one of the most popular design books ever, Jan was an art director at Time Magazine. Jan’s signature style is reflected in the latest edition of Editing by Design and his Graphic Ideas Notebook. Jan’s goal has always been to encourage designers to think like writers, and writers to think like designers. He signature writing and presenting style combines clarity with a gentle twinkle in his eye.

Doyald Young

Doyald Young is one of the world’s foremost typographers. A type designer, faculty Inaugeral Master of the School member at the Art Center School of design, he is also the author and publisher of two influential books, Logotypes & Letterforms and Fonts & Logotypes, which describe the process he follows creating brand images for top-tier clients.