Typeface designer, Commercial Type, New York


M.F.A., graphic design, Yale School of Art (2015)

A.B. cum laude, physics, Amherst College (2009)


For all inquiries please send email to info@timripper.com. CV available upon request.

Old site here.


Site design and programming by Tim Ripper

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Fragment of a Map of the Universe
Fragment of a Map of the Universe
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2015

Metaphorical map of all my MFA projects, created for my thesis book.

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Fragment of a Map of the Universe

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Interference Posters
Interference Posters
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2014

Type experiments inspired by these recordings of vintage Bell phone system sounds, attempting to formally capture the network’s complexity and rich sources of signal interference.

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Structure 1

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In the old network, you were never really alone

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Interfering oppositions

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Structure 2

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deLuise Poster
DeLuise Poster
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2014

Unofficial poster for a lecture on art and ophthalmology at the Yale School of Medicine.

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With an Artistic Vision

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Ben Fry Poster
Ben Fry Poster
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2014

Poster for Ben Fry’s talk at Yale.

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Ben Fry at Yale

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Band
Band
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2014

Collaborative networked music-performance software running on a Node server. Video recorded during an in-class test in April 2014.

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Binaries
Binaries
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2014

Illustrations imagining the interiors of three publicly inaccessible New Haven locations—a Yale secret society tomb, a data center, and an abandoned power plant. I envisioned each building as consisting of two simultaneous, opposing states: the fantastic, surreal universe that I wished it contained, and the more probable case in which the mystery shrouding the site dissolves into a boring reality.

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Bull and Scones (detail)

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Binaries posters (Bull and Scones, AT&NSA Data Center, English Stationary)

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English Stationary (detail)

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AT&NSA Data Center (detail)

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