
Professor of Typography & Graphic Communication at University of Reading
Reading, United Kingdom

Professor of Typography & Graphic Communication at University of Reading
Reading, United Kingdom
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
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
(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)
1999 — Present (10 years )
See http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/services/academic-office/regulations/instrument-articles/02-responsibilities.asp
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
October 1998 — Present (11 years 2 months)
(Design industry)
1976 — 1998 (22 years )
BA , Typography & Graphic Commmunication , 1970 — 1974
Typography, book design, dictionary design, typeface design, computerized typesetting, branding and visual identity, design history, transport design