Aoife Mooney
Biography
Aoife Mooney is a Professor at the School of Visual Communication Design, where she teaches undergraduate foundation through upper and graduate level classes. Mooney is an interdisciplinary designer and artist whose practice combines typeface design, typography and textiles to consider how formal systems operate to create relationships of meaning through visual, conceptual and tactile means. She has spoken about these subjects at international venues including TypeCon, ATypI, Design Research Society, Design History Society, and MODE. Her work has been awarded and published internationally by Society of Typographic Arts, Communication Arts, Graphis and others. She received her BA in Visual Communication from Dublin Institute of Technology (now Technological University Dublin), her MATD (Masters in Typeface Design) from the University of Reading, UK, and her MFA in Studio Art with a focus on Textiles from Kent State University. Her professional practice has allowed her to work with the internationally acclaimed studio Cartoon Saloon to produce typefaces and lettering for the Oscar-nominated feature film, Wolfwalkers (2019), Irish Folklore Trilogy boxset (2021), the children's TV series, Silly Sundays (2023), and most recently, the feature film, Julián (2026). Along with Prof. Jillian Coorey, beginning in 2017, she has been a Regional Coordinator for the International Society of Typographic Designers' Annual Student Assessment Scheme in the North American region.
