ABOUT INA SALTZ

Ina Saltz is an art director, designer, writer, photographer and professor (at The City College of New York) whose areas of expertise are typography and magazine design. She is a regular columnist for STEP Inside Design magazine and writes for other design magazines, including Graphis and How. You can read some of Ina's STEP OUT columns here: www.stepinsidedesign.com.

Last year Ina co-designed a prototype for a magazine for "policy wonks" called Americas Quarterly, now being published by the Council of the Americas in New York City. She was the Design Director at Time Magazine (International Editions), Worth Magazine, and other magazines including Golf Magazine, Golf for Women, Worldbusiness. Ina was one of the first art directors to work on a computer in 1981 at Time Inc.s Teletext Project, a precursor of the web.

Ina is on the design faculty of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course, and she has also recently taught "virtually" for Stanford via webcast. Ina frequently lectures on topics related to magazine design and typography, including, most recently, in Toronto, Atlanta, Denver, Moscow and Amsterdam.

Ina graduated from Cooper Union in New York City; her lifelong love of letterforms intensified there when she studied calligraphy with Don Kunz. She has chaired, co-chaired and judged numerous design, typography and photography competitions; she is a judge for the National Magazine Awards, the Society of Publication Designers, and the Type Directors Club, the Ozzies, and many regional competitions.

Ina lives in New York City with her husband. She has no pets or tattoos, but she does have favorite typefaces (Requiem, Franklin Gothic No.2) and favorite characters (&, Q, Z, R).

"BODY TYPE: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh" is her first book.
Download her article in Inked magazine.

Ina is continuing her documentation of typographic tattoos for Volume Two of Body Type. Send her your typographic tattoo!