DESIGN LECTURE SERIES: NANCY SHARON COLLINS

"Love Letters: American Commercial Engraving, Monograms and Social Stationery"

Nancy Sharon Collins has been cited over sixty times in popular media for exemplary bespoke hand engraved social stationery. She is a typographer, print history scholar, partner in Collins, LLC, AIGA New Orleans director of special projects and a member of adjunct faculty at Loyola University New Orleans. Nancy presented "The Real Mad Men/Graphic Design History in Louisiana" at the 2009 AIGA Leadership Retreat in Portland, OR, co-authored "Green Salon New Orleans" for Seattle Journal for Social Justice and "Revisionist History of Graphic Design" for the 2008 Southeastern College Art Conference. She recently presented "Readable Text New Orleans Style at TypeCon 2009 in Atlanta where she also gave the engraving workshop for which she is well known.

Mrs. Collins owned and operated the graphic design firm Nancy Feldman studio in New York City from 1978 to 2004. Clients included Waterford Wedgwood, Clinique, Prescriptives, Revlon, Charles of the Ritz, Curve fragrance, The Metropolitan Opera Shop, and the Museum of Modern Art.