Paul Luna

Current

• Independent governor at Bath Spa University
• Professor of Typography & Graphic Communication and Head of Department at University of Reading

Past

• Designer at Oxford University Press

Education

• The University of Reading

Connections

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Industry

Design

Paul Luna’s Summary

I teach, reseach, and practise in the area of complex book design, especially dictionaries.

Current PhD supervision: design of undergraduate textbooks; design of scholarly book covers; the design work of Edward Wright

Programme Director, MA Book Design

I am a contributor to the History of the Oxford University Press project (editor Simon Eliot)

I am publishing notes on the early days of computer-assisted typesetting at www.phototypesetting.org, and on dictionary design at www.dictionarydesign.org

External examiner for the BA publishing programme at Oxford Brookes University

Paul Luna’s Specialties:

Recent research/practice has included the redesign of the 5th and 6th editions of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; design proposals for a major Irish–English dictionary; and (with Nadja Guggi) design proposals for a range of children's dictionaries.

Research and MA students I have supervised have worked on: script integration in Japanese–English dictionaries; design of undergraduate textbooks; little press publlishing in Britain after WW2

Paul Luna’s Experience

• Independent governor

  Bath Spa University

  (Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

  1999 — Present (10 years )

  See http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/services/academic-office/regulations/instrument-articles/02-responsibilities.asp

• Professor of Typography & Graphic Communication and Head of Department

  University of Reading

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  October 1998 — Present (11 years 2 months)

• Designer

  Oxford University Press

  (Design industry)

  1976 — 1998 (22 years )

Paul Luna’s Education

• The University of Reading

  BA , Typography & Graphic Commmunication , 1970 — 1974

Additional Information

Paul Luna’s Interests:

Typography, book design, dictionary design, typeface design, computerized typesetting, branding and visual identity, design history, transport design

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