In 2010, I left behind a decade of agency life & city living to start Magpie Paper Works, a boutique typographic foundry specializing in hand-drawn fonts and custom lettering. Serving multi-national brands as well as independent artisans, my award-winning typefaces adorn a range of global campaigns & products from best-selling book covers and prime-time network television titling to Swiss chocolates and globally-released films.

Together with Besotted Co. in 2015, I launched Rare Bird Font Foundry, where I transform select artists’ calligraphy into premium Opentype fonts. Featured artists include Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls and Karla Lim. Rare Bird is committed to increasing the visibility & participation of women in type design; the foundry exclusively features the work of female artists and is owned & operated entirely by women.

In late 2019, I co-founded TypeWknd, a brand-new online-only design conference for everyone who sees, draws, makes, studies, and sells type. This event was powered by volunteers and free to attend from anywhere in the world. Speakers and workshop leaders hailed from every continent except Antarctica. A diverse and equitable team of reviewers selected content that best empowered a global typographic audience, provided value to attendees of all backgrounds and experience levels, and served under-invested communities. (It was also a fun way to connect with one another during the pandemic.) In 2021, the conference formally organized a Board of Directors and plans to hold similar annual events for a global audience, for years to come.