Ina Saltz

Ina Saltz is an art director, designer, author, photographer and Professor Emeritus of Digital Design at The City College of New York, specializing in typography and editorial design. In addition to her four books (as author, photographer and designer), Ina authored over 50 articles on typography and design for professional design magazines. For her BODY TYPE books and exhibitions, Ina photographed and interviewed over 900 people with typographic tattoos (meeting some of the most interesting people in the process!). 

Ina presents at many design conferences, including TypeCon and AdobeMax. An updated and substantially revised second edition of her book, "Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type" was published in January 2019. Ina is excited about updating this book to include mobile, web, and tablet design, as well as environmental design.

In 2017, fifty of Ina's photographs ("The Body Type Project") were included in "Tattooed New York," a major exhibition at the New-York Historical Society. Solo shows of her "Body Type" photographs appeared at Penn State's Stuckemann School (2018), Cooper Union's Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography (2006) at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center's Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (2007).

Fifteen of Ina's essays on typography and logotypes were published by Phaidon Press in "The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design," (2015). Her work has also appeared in "Handwritten," (2007) edited by Steve Heller; "100 Habits of Successful Publication Designers," (2008) by Laurel Saville; "Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failures, and Lessons Learned," (2008) edited by Steve Heller; and "The Education of an Art Director," (2005) edited by Steve Heller and Veronique Vienne.

Ina was the Design Director at Time magazine's International Editions, Worth magazine, and others including Golf magazine and Worldbusiness magazine; she has consulted at Business Week, Consumer Reports and other publications. With her occasional collaborator, Donald Partyka, Ina designed a magazine prototype for "policy wonks" ("The Americas Quarterly") for the Council of the Americas, which launched in 2007. 

Ina was on the design faculty of the Stanford Publishing Course for fifteen years; she has also taught "virtually" for Stanford via webcast. Ina lectures on topics related to editorial design and typography, including Toronto, Atlanta, Denver, San Jose, Moscow, Calgary and Amsterdam. 

Ina has chaired, co-chaired and judged numerous design, typography and photography competitions: the National Magazine Awards, AIGA, the Society of Publication Designers, and the Type Directors Club, the Ozzies, the City and Regional Magazine Association, and others.
 She is a two-time board member of the Society of Publication Designers and the Type Directors Club.

Ina received a BFA from Cooper Union in New York City; her lifelong love of letterforms grew there through her calligraphy studies with Don Kunz. Among her other teachers and mentors are Hermann Zapf and Donald Jackson.