About the author

INA SALTZ is an art director, a designer, an author, a photographer, and professor (in the Electronic Design and Multimedia program at The City College of New York) whose areas of expertise are typography and magazine design. She has been an art director at TIME Magazine (International Editions) and other publications, including Worth Magazine, GOLF Magazine, Golf for Women Magazine, Businessweek Magazine, and World Business Magazine.

Saltz is on the design faculty of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course, and she has also taught “virtually” for Stanford via webcast. She lectures on topics related to magazine design and typography (most recently in Toronto, Atlanta, Denver, Moscow, and Amsterdam). Since 2003 she has been a columnist for STEP Inside Design magazine; and she contributes features to How and Inked magazines.

Saltz’s first book, Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh, was published by Harry N. Abrams Books (www.bodytypebook.com). The second volume of Body Type will be published in 2009. She is also a contributing writer for a three-volume work, Classics of Graphic Design, to be published in 2010 by Phaidon Press.