Amy Conger

Fonts

Amy has been dabbling in font making for over ten years. Her organic-looking fonts—which can be downloaded for free at <www.abecedarienne.com/>—are largely based on handmade and rubber-stamped lettering. One enthusiastic stamper, in fact, made Amy's font Ticket Capitals back into rubber
<crafts.dm.net/mall/reliquary/id00.html>.

Her fonts have appeared on signs and CD packaging and countless flyers. They have been distributed by top free font sites such as <www.dafont.com> and on other sites such as
<www.bancomicsans.com/>. They have traveled to designers all over the world via CDs distributed with design magazines in Japan, Germany and England. They have also appeared in SOTA's traveling exhibit TypeGallery in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

Her font Cricket appeared in the book Freefonts: Designer Fonts Online: The Best Fonts Money Can't Buy in 2002. In 2006, her fonts will appear in DŽbut Publications' Freeware & Shareware Font Directory 2005.

As an instructor at City College, Amy has developed GRPH 152 Digital Font Creation for students interested in the font-making process and GRPH 151 Lettering and Type for those interested in the ink-on-paper approach.

Photography

Amy Conger is fascinated by capturing images made of light. She uses toy cameras, old cameras, custom-made and digital cameras in her photography. She also uses non-camera, alternative processes especially for abstract images.

You can see some of her work here:
www.lomohomes.com/amelita
and here: www.abecedarienne.com/gallery/index.shtml

In 2004, some of her photos were published in Le Lomo: L'Appareil photo qui ose tout! by Charlotte Poupon.

Show

Reversing Vandalism, San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, Spring 2004.

Amy Conger's piece "Queer Reader Mandorla" was chosen as the introductory piece for the show. For more info on this amazing project, see: sfpl.lib.ca.us/news/onlineexhibits/rv/