Aoife Mooney

Aoife Mooney is an Irish textile artist, typo/graphic designer, and an Associate Professor in the School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University in Ohio, USA. She holds an MFA in Studio Art (Textiles) from the School of Art at Kent State University, as well as a Masters in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, and a Bachelors in Visual Communication from Dublin Institute of Technology. Before joining the faculty at Kent State in 2014, she worked as a typeface designer at the Hoefler & Frere-Jones (now part of Monotype) type foundry in New York.

https://www.aoifemooney.org/ Alongside her teaching, she maintains practices as textile artist, typeface designer and typographer. She is a member of the International Society of Typographic Designers and one of the regional coordinators of the ISTD North America Annual Student Assessment Scheme. She regularly presents on her research at conferences nationally and internationally.