Conferences

AGRAFA Conference, Katowice, Poland , December 2007:
Conference paper: Teaching typography in the 21st century: Reviewing the fundamentals of typography in a post-modern design culture

Lodz International Design Festival Poland November 2008
Conference paper: The Typographic Joke

New Views 2 International Design Education Symposium at London College of Communication, July 2008:
Conference paper Typographic Literacies

Revival St Bride Printing Library International conference: April 2009
Conference paper: Alternate Histories and Historical Alternates

Rhythm: Typecon /SOTA Conference, Atlanta
Conference paper: The Typographer as Reader


Forthcoming:

My abstract Spaces Within; an exploration of the counterform has been accepted for Typographic Horizons, a one-day symposium organized by Type in collaboration with The Birmingham Institute of Art & Design which will take place in November 2009.

I have also been invited to submit an abstract for the 2nd International Conference on Responsibility in Graphic Design which will be held January 11?15, 2010 in Katowice.

Exhibitions

Exhibition of digital prints: Where the Southern Cross the Dog at Plus Design International expo, Birmingham October 2007

Exhibition of digital prints: City of Letters: Clare Hall Gallery, Cambridge University November 2008


Forthcoming:

I have been invited to exhibit at the Rondo Sztuki Gallery, Katowice, Poland and at the Japanese School in Warsaw in late 2009.

Books

Historical Reference and Revival
My MA dissertation Historical Reference and Revival in Twentieth Century Type Design is to be published in book form by Mark Batty Publications/MBP Academic, New York, in late 2009.

The Complete Typographer
Publication dates and contracts have now been confirmed for a new and substantially revised edition of my book The Complete Typographer, to be published in the US by Prentice Hall (UK publisher TBC).

Refereed journal articles and book chapters

'Old Forms, New Ideas: Typographic Revival and the Uses of History' in Font, the Sourcebook Black Dog Publishing, London July 2008

Nine sections 300-400 words: Phaidon Compendium of Graphic Design, due for publication Summer 09

Major introductory chapter 'The Schwitters Legacy' in Art and Text, Black Dog Publishing, London due for publication August 09


Forthcoming:

Multi
My paper Typographic Literacies has been selected for publication by Multi, The RIT Journal of Diversity and Plurality in Design, an online peer-reviewed, open access journal housed at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Parenthesis
I am completing an essay on dual serif-sans typeface family for Parenthesis, the journal of the Fine Press Book Association, to be published in summer 2009.

Ulltrabold
A major illustrated feature on my recent print series City of Letters (see 2a) forms the main focus of the summer 2009 issue of Ultrabold: The journal of the St Bride Printing Library.

2+3D
I have been asked by the Polish design journal 2+3D to write a feature based around an interview with the noted type designer Jeremy Tankard.

Reviews

Ultrabold
Book reviews in Ultrabold: the journal of the St Bride Printing Library
Andrew Haslam, Book Design
Anthony Cahalan, Type Trends and Fashions
Charlotte Rivers, Type Specific
Tim Donaldson, Shapes for Sounds

Symposia/conference series

Beyond the Margins
I am organising a programme of symposia on experimental typographics, comprising an inaugural event in Cambridge in September 2009 to be followed by a further symposium at London College of Communication, University of the Arts in April 2010. Subject to the success of a pending AHRC bid (see 4 above) this is to be followed by events in Ireland, Poland and the USA, culminating in a major three-day conference in Cambridge in 2011. This is a collaborative project with Dr Ian Horton of London College of Communication.