Hi, I am Rob Keller:

I am a designer and artist from the cornfields of the midwest with an obsession for letters. While studying at the University of Illinois — working towards my BFAs in Graphic Design and Sculpture — I discovered that designing type was the right path. In 2006-07 I was fortunate to attend the University of Reading (Reading, England) and be a part of the legendary MA in Typeface Design program*.


Immediately following Reading, I moved to Frankfurt Germany to work at Linotype. There, I was “Editor of Font Content” or “Product Marketing Assistant” depending on where the title was being written. I have shared a bit about my experiences at that job in this post. I left Linotype after a year to pursue my dream of full time type design.


Now I am living in Berlin with my lovely wife and business partner Sonja. We work together at our company, Mota Italic, designing and selling typefaces.


We also run the site Type News on the side. It is a fun little project that aggregates and displays all the latest typographic images, tweets, and blog posts from all over the internet. (UPDATE: Type News has not been functioning properly as of the end of 2009 for some unknown reason… We will be working to completely redo the site, time-permitting.)

Contact:

If you have any questions or comments, please don’t heasitate to send them to:

ihavesomethingtosay [at] youshouldliketypetoo.com

You can also find me on Twitter & Facebook from time to time.




* I receive a lot of curious inquiries about what going to Reading was like. For those interested, I have a photographic timeline of the year to give an impression. But be warned: it generally covers the highlights while mostly omitting just how boring the town is or how ridiculously stressful the time was.


See all about Reading through this photo album of the year →




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