Megan Gerard O’Connell’s career as a printer and teacher is multimodal. As founding director of Salt & Cedar [Detroit | Paris], she has curated exhibitions & events, created a storefront bookshop, led workshops, collaborated with poets & artists, and produced for clients internationally. As an educator, O’Connell was the founding director of the Typography Lab at the University of Oregon [1994–2006] and since that time has been a visiting professor at many institutions, including School of Visual Arts [NYC], where she teaches type history. In 2015, she was invited by Anthony Bourdain to join his Rare Craft Collection, creating a ‘portable press’ for the tour. As artist-in-residence at p98a.berlin and the Balvenie Distillery in the Scottish Highlands, O’Connell continued to experiment with traditional and non-traditional print. For the past four decades, her work has been shared at art book fairs and galleries across North America and Europe and has been acquired by art institutions, libraries and archives on both continents. Last year in Paris, she exhibited prints at Cahiers d’art and the Sorbonne Panthéon, and was inducted into Outypopo.
Take advantage of the early bird ticket now, join us on Saturday 30 May 2026! We’ll got an amazing lineup of speakers lined up for this year.
Now26 conference in Paris is a celebration of typography, featuring inspiring speakers from graphic design, web design, motion design, publishing, visual identity, communication, and type design.
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The 6-week type design programme that you’ve been waiting for starts on 2 June and ends 10 July 2026.
Open to all Our summer programme is in English and covers typeface design and calligraphy techniques, type history, and software practices. Whether you’re a design pro or just curious about type design, you can learn all about it in a relatively short amount of time.
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