I am a Senior Lecturer in Typography in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, UK. My responsibilities cover both undergraduate and postgraduate modules, with a heavy bias on taught postgraduate teaching, course development, and enterprise / outreach activities.
Since 2001 I have been the Programme Director for the MA Typeface Design, responsible for planning and delivery of a significant proportion of the teaching hours. The course is considered a reference for practice-based teaching in an academic environment, and, through the output of its students and graduates, is contributing considerably to the transformation of a domain of practice into a field of study.
I co-supervise and sit on Research Advisory Groups for PhD candidates, have served as an expert reviewer for funding applications in Arts & Humanities, and assessed tenure promotion portfolios for a number of institutions. I am currently the External Examiner for the MA Graphic Design at the University of Portsmouth.
I am the School of Arts & Communication Design’s Senior Tutor, with responsibilities for implementing Personal and Professional Development initiatives, and overseeing pastoral provision. I sit on a number of committees, boards, and fora, and am currently the Enterprise Coordinator for the School of Arts & Communication Design.
My consultancy focuses on typeface design and typography with particular expertise in Greek typography. Projects have been concluded with include Adobe, Ascender, Bitstream, Cambridge University Press, DaltonMaag, Linotype, Microsoft, Monotype, and many smaller companies. In this area, I was been the academic lead on a successfully concluded two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of Reading and Monotype Imaging, and am leading a current Partnership with Merson Sign Design on bi-lingual airport sign systems.
I help to organise conferences, and was a Board member of the ATypI from 2004 to 2010. I am frequently invited to speak on typography and typeface design, and increasingly on typographic education, both at academic and professional events.
I am currently taking a new MA programme through the final stages of certification.