Kelcey is an Austin, Texas–based graphic designer who spends her time working with words and exploring the possibilities of typography and lettering.
She is the author of Let’s Make Letters! and currently teaches design and typography at the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Kelcey received her MFA in Graphic Design at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Throughout her career, she has won several industry awards and been featured in publications like Fast Co., Communication Arts, Under Consideration, Gestalten Books, and "Type on Screen" edited by Ellen Lupton. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, notably at the 2017 London Design Festival.
She was once told she was "energetic, but not in that annoying way" by someone who clearly meant well but was not very good a giving compliments.
CONTACT
kelceycarsongray[at]gmail[dot]com
instagram
instagram (LetterMaker)
SERVICES
Branding & Identity
Branded Environments
Illustration
Typography
Books and Packaging
PUBLICATIONS
Type on Screen
Contributor, Storyboarding
Princeton Architectural Press
You’re Invited
Project Feature, Rainforest Alliance Gala Invitation
Gestalten Publishers
PUBLICATIONS
Let’s Make Letters!
Published by Princeton Architectural Press
AWARDS, EXHIBITIONS, & MENTIONS
2021
Variable Type… But Make it Paper | TypeLab Workshop and Lecture at Typographics
2020
Austin Design Week Event Host with Guest Lecturer, Cheryl D. Holmes Miller
APART Exhibition: Posters from a Social Distance
The Dieline Rockwell Beer Co. Brand
2019
Type Hike Exhibition + Press
ADDY Rockwell Beer Co. Brand
Hand Lettering Juried Show at MICA
2018
Fonts in Use Get Out the Vote
National ADDY Silver Award
Graphis Annual Poster Design Annual
Graphis Branding 7 Silver Award, Professional Services: Creative Process
Graphis Branding 7 Honorable Mention, Professional Services: ENV
ARCH Exhibition Type Hike
2017
Communication Arts Typography Annual
Underconsideration FPO Feature
2016
Society of Typographic Arts 2016 STA 100 Award LetterMaker Stencil
AIGA Eye on Design Mention LetterMaker Stencil
National ADDY Silver Award
2015
Communication Arts Typography Annual
Award of Excellence Mound City Catalogue
Graphis Design Annual Silver Award
Mound City Catalogue
AAM Museum Publications Design Competition Second Place Award
2011
Fast Co. Design Infographic of the Day