Indices : Writers : Tamye Riggs

Tamye Riggs is a writer, designer, editor, and event planner specializing in typography and the related arts. She is the Executive Director of The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), which organizes TypeCon annually. She is co-editor of SOTA's publication Interrobang with Stephen Coles.

Riggs began her career by working as a typesetter and production artist throughout high school and college. After stints at big ad agencies, an entertainment news weekly, an oil and gas company, a trendy watch manufacturer, and a host of design studios in Dallas, Texas, Riggs moved to the typographic side of life. She has worked in creative, marketing, and management areas for Maryland-based Phil's Fonts/GarageFonts and FontShop San Francisco (including the editing of FSSF's recently-revived Font magazine).

Riggs freelances for a number of foundries and type distributors and writes for design publications such as HOW and Computer Arts UK. She has edited six books on type and motion graphics, including the Indie Fonts series with Richard Kegler and James Grieshaber. She has recently taken up sports writing in support of her son Jonathan's youth basketball team.

A musician since childhood, Riggs has fronted several bands in Dallas and DC. A native Oregonian, Riggs now lives and works on the hidden island of Alameda, just across the bay from San Francisco.