Deputy Head of School;
Course Leader, MA Graphic Design and Typography;
Senior Lecturer, Graphic Design


Room: Rus 216

Email: will.hill@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 2399
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 2399


Will Hill's research activity page

Will Hill studied at Winchester School of Art and Cambridge School of Art, and more recently completed an MA in Typeface design at the University of Reading. Prior to taking up a full-time educational post, he practised as a freelance designer, illustrator, design consultant and typographer in London from 1977 to 1993.

During this time he worked for publications including Time out, New Scientist, New Statesman, New Society, The Radio Times, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph; for design consultants including Michael Peters plc, Cresse Learman King, KHBB, and for clients such as Eagle Star, McConnell Douglas, The Leeds and TSB.

He worked extensively in the area of book jacket design, in academic and popular publishing, working regularly for Routledge, Longman, Hamlyn, Octopus, Harper Collins as well as a number of small presses, journals and independent publishers.

From 1993 he has been Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at Cambridge School of Art, where he designed and introduced the undergraduate programme in Graphic Design in 1997 and the MA Typographic Design in 2003. From September 2012 he will head the new MA Graphic Design and Typography.

He has given numerous conference papers at national and international level on typography, design education and related subjects, and his work is published in both academic and professional journals.

His published work includes the book The Complete Typographer, third edition, published by Thames and Hudson in the UK and Pearson in the USA. He has also contributed chapters to Font:The Sourcebook and Art and Text, and the Phaidon Compendium of Graphic Design.

His MA dissertation 'Revival and Historical Reference in 20th Century Typeface Design' is to be published by MBP Academic, New York.

Will's current practice and research activity reflects a wide-ranging fascination for type, lettering, and the use of visual language, in a wide range of contexts across both the applied and the fine arts. This includes work on vernacular lettering in eastern Europe (the subject of a paper given at the St Bride's Conference in 2005), the design of experimental display typefaces and research on revivals and historic references in type design.

Since 1995 he has been working on digital collages using elements of found lettering and signage from European cities. These have been exhibited at the Plus International Design Expo in Birmingham and at University galleries in Cambridge, Bristol, Derby and the Universidade do Porto, Portugal. His prints have also been published in the print journal Ultrabold and the book Hand-made Graphics (Rotovision).

Will is also currently External Examiner for the University of Derby at the Vakalo School of Art, Athens.

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