Ben Kiel
Ben Kiel received his BFA from Washington University in Saint Louis and his MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading in the UK. He works at House Industries where his duties include typeface design and development. As such, his interests include a love of printing history, using technology to speed up the typeface production process, and pushing design tools to accommodate designers' needs. Before House Industries, he worked in Saint Louis as a both a freelance designer and for emdash, the limited editions imprint of Ken Botnick. In his evenings he teaches at both the Maryland Institute College of Art and the University of Delaware and occasionally returns to letterpress printing under the name Studio 485.
