Angie Wang is a designer and educator who specializes in typography and typographic systems. She is the Creative Director of Design is Play, the design and branding studio she founded with partner Mark Fox in 2007. Wang and Fox are co-authors of “Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing,” published by The Monacelli Press in 2016.Design is Play is consistently recognized by The Type Directors Club, AIGA, and Print magazine; the studio is the subject of a feature article in the May/June 2015 issue of Communication Arts magazine. Most recently, Design is Play was nominated for one of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s 2017 National Design Awards—a nationwide awards program honoring excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement in American design. Wang’s work is included in collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Design Museum, London; the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg; the Poster Museum at Wilanów, Warsaw; the United States Library of Congress, Washington; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Her work is also represented in the collections of the Letterform Archive in San Francisco, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) in Los Angeles. Wang is a Senior Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco where she has been teaching in the Graphic Design program since 2005. She is an alumna of UC Berkeley and California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.