She has an MFA in Design from the University of Iowa. Her background is in communication design and she specializes in typography and publication design. Her creative work examines the forms of written language, the shapes of letters and structures of text and their relationship to space. She is the editor of the award-winning Current, Emily Carr’s design research journal. Her current design research focuses on the development of enhanced interactive ebooks and the categorization of emerging formal structures in book design for touch-based mobile devices.