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Colleen Comerford is a designer, educator, and independent publisher whose work explores the history of visual communication through research-driven, visually focused books. She founded her small press to publish The Accountant, the King, the Priest, and the Poet: A Visual History of the Alphabet and to support future projects that bring design history to wider audiences through accessible, thoughtfully designed publications.

The Accountant, the King, the Priest, and the Poet traces the 5,000-year evolution of the Latin alphabet—from the clay tablets of ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary design. Structured around twenty-six artifacts, the book reveals how writing systems emerged, adapted, and traveled across cultures through trade, religion, empire, and creative exchange.

Blending historical narrative with visual analysis, the project offers students, designers, and curious readers a clear introduction to the origins of written communication. It frames the alphabet not simply as a system of letters, but as a living record of human invention, exchange, and design.