User:DesignDiscovery/Rob Roy Kelly

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Rob Roy Kelly (March 15, 1925 – January 23, 2004) was a trail-blazer in design education after earning a BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University, where he studied with Josef Albers. Kelly established prominent design programs in the formative years of graphic design education, including at Kansas City Art Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Arizona State University, and Western Michigan University. A collector and scholar of wood type, Mr. Kelly authored American Wood Type, 1828–1900 (1969). His comprehensive wood type collection, sold initially to the Museum of Modern Art, now resides at the University of Texas.

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Jerry Herring

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