Shelley Stepp is a designer interested in a contemporary interpretation of botanical herbaria and pomologies and the collaborative process between graphic designer and landscape designer. Currently she is collaborating on projects at Fallingwater and the Chatham University Landscape Architecture program.

Shelley is technical faculty for the CalArts School of Art. She serves as site coordinator for the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Digital Media Program, where she teaches conceptual social design to high school students. Additionally Shelley teaches collaboratively in the ArtsCOOL program through a partnership between CAP and the Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Education Branch and Educational Options Program. Students at Thoreau High School design site specific landscape projects. As archivist for the CalArts Graphic Design poster archive, she documents a visual history of the Graphic Design program from the 1970's to the present through collecting, archiving and disseminating screen printed posters.

Published work includes, Emigre #30, Typography, Digital Type, Typographics 1, Typography Now Two, and her work has been requested for the permanent collections of The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry and the Museum Fur Kunst Und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany. Previously she was the recipient of a three year California Arts Council grant.

Shelley received a BFA in graphic design from Oregon State University in 1990 and an MFA in graphic design from CalArts in 1994.