Shelley Gruendler
Dr Shelley Gruendler is a typographer, designer, and educator who teaches, lectures, and publishes internationally on typography and design. She holds a PhD and an MA in The History and Theory of Typography and Graphic Communication from the University of Reading, England and a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Graphic Design from North Carolina State University, United States. Shelley has presented at TypoBerlin, ATypI, TypeCon, and How; has published articles in Communication Arts, Codex, How, Slanted, and Step; and has judged international typography for Communication Arts and Canadian book design for the Alcuin Society. She is proud to live in the Canadian Typographic Archipelago and she plans to publish her biography of Beatrice Warde, the champion of accessible typographic theory, within the next few years. Shelley travels the world as the founding director of Type Camp International™. 
Tiffany Wardle
Galiano 2008, Galiano 2009, Buffalo 2010, California
“Typegirl”, is a typographer and graphic designer currently living and working in San Jose, California. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Graphic Design from Brigham Young University, she worked in magazine design in New York City. However, the drone of the rat race was too much and the call of teaching was too strong, so she returned to her native Utah to teach as an adjunct professor in Graphic Design at BYU. After a few years, Tiffany changed her life once again when she found she couldn’t resist the lure of graduate school, and promptly moved to Reading, England and earned her Master of Arts in the Theory and History of Typography and Graphic Communication. She hasn’t looked back since. Her words have been published in STEP Inside Design, Interrobang, Indie Fonts III, and TypeCulture. She has been a board member for the Society of Typographic Aficionados and a contributing volunteer for the Association Typographique Internationale.
Stephen Coles
Galiano 2009, California 2011–2012, Australia 2012, New Zealand 2012
Stephen’s obsession with type and lettering wreaks havoc in his daily life where he is routinely tripped by fire hydrants while admiring vintage signs. Fortunately, his freakishness found a home at FontShop where he served as Type Director from 2004–2010. A specialist in typeface selection, Stephen is now a writer and typographic consultant, doing work for a variety of foundries and design studios. He publishes the blogs Typographica and The Mid-Century Modernist.
Marina Chaccur
California 2012, Rio 2012, Australia 2012, New Zealand 2012
Marina Chaccur is a graphic designer and instructor from Brazil. She holds a degree from the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado [FAAP]. Her international education consists of an MA from the London College of Communication in England and an MA in TypeMedia at KABK in The Hague, Netherlands. She is continuously involved in conferences, lectures, workshops and exhibitions in Brazil and other parts of the world. Marina serves as a board member for Association Typographique Internationale [ATypI].
Antonio Cavedoni
California 2012
Antonio Cavedoni was born in Sassuolo, Modena, Italy. He received his Masters of Arts in Type Design from The University of Reading in 2009. Antonio has been, and still is, a web developer, a designer, a type designer, and a lover of Trader Joe's famed '2 Buck Chuck' (just don't tell his Italian relatives!). He now works as a typographer for Apple, Inc.
Jay Rutherford
Bauhaus 2012
Jay Rutherford studied design in Kingston, Ontario and Halifax, Nova Scotia (with 13 years in between), but learned more on the job doing film stripping, computerized typesetting mark-up (long before DTP), page layout and graphic design. He has taught design-related subjects from silk-screen printing to set design to detail typography with many stops in between. In 1992, after running his own design studio in Canada for some years, Jay ran away to Germany to join the MetaDesign circus. Here he helped expand the Meta type family and drew an italic for Frutiger Condensed, which FontShop now sells as FF Transit. The Meta experience convinced Jay to stay in Germany, where he was professor of Visual Communications at the Bauhaus University Weimar for ten years. Jay Rutherford taught Visual Communications at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy for two years and has now returned to the Bauhaus University in Weimar.
Jan Middendorp
Bauhaus 2012
Jan Middendorp is an independent researcher, writer and designer based in Berlin. He has studied and written about the historical avant-garde in design and the arts since the mid-1980s. Having worked as a performance and media critic, he later specialized in typography and graphic design, working as an editor and consultant to companies such as FontShop, LucasFonts and MyFonts as well as the Museum of Graphic Design in Breda, the Netherlands. His books include Post-modernism (senior thesis, 1984), Dutch type (2004), Made with FontFont (2006, with Erik Spiekermann) and Creative Characters (2010). He was a visiting professor in Belgium, Venezuela and Dubai, and currently teaches at Berlin’s Weißensee college and Antwerp’s Plantin Society.
Gerd Fleischmann
Bauhaus 2012
Gerd Fleischmann is a typographer and an exhibition and book designer, with such diverse interests as physics, mathematics, art education, painting, and photography. He taught design basics and typography at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld until 2003, and has also taught in Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Vietnam and Costa Rica. He has published on the Bauhaus, Max Bill and Reinhard Lange, was co-founder of the famous Museum of the Printing Arts in Leipzig, and the German professional association Forum Typografie. If there is anything to know about the Bauhaus, Professor Fleischmann knows it and is eager to pass it along to Type Campers.
Mr A
India 2009, India 2011
Mr Arumugam (but we all call him ‘Mr A’) is the head of production for Tara Books and co-instructor for Type Camp India. He manages a screen-printing workshop in southern Chennai that trains and supports dozens of craftspeople in the area. With this dedication, he has raised awareness of the tangible book with Tara and has helped to maintain high standards of craft through culture. In addition, his silk-screening business has become an ultimate example of true sustainability and support for the local residents.
Rathna Ramanathan
India 2009, India 2012
Rathna Ramanathan, principle of Minus9 Design, is from Chennai, India and is currently based in London. She holds a PhD in the History of Graphic Communication and Typography at the University of Reading and an MA in Communication Design from Central St Martins. Rathna has taught design and typography in India and is now the Design Subject Leader on the BA (Hons) graphic design at central St Martins. Her main interest is in typography – as showcased in many of Tara Press’s titles – as well as in the changing form of the book. She is the Association Typographique Internationale [ATypI] Country Delegate for India. A practising designer, Rathna splits her time between India and the UK and her work for Tara Publishing has received a number of international design awards.
Marian Bantjes
Galiano 2007, Galiano 2009
Marian Bantjes is a self-described Typographic Artist. After working as a book typesetter for ten years and a designer for nine, she gave everything up in 2003 to pursue her artistic and typographic obsessions. Her work is complex, structured, sometimes funny and always obsessive. Despite living and working from a small island near Vancouver, Canada, in the past years she has worked with Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut, Saks Fifth Avenue, Young & Rubicam, The Guardian (UK), Wallpaper, WIRED, New York Times Books, Print (“The vivid word” cover from July/Aug 06), and her work has appeared in magazines such as Eye, STEP and Communication Arts. She has been an author on the design weblog Speak Up since 2004, where she writes posts which vary from quirky musings to profane rants. The verdict is not yet in, but she may be living proof of what happens when you follow the love instead of the money.